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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday discussed tensions with China in the East China Sea and stressed the importance of security cooperation between the United States, Japan and South Korea.

Plunging costs for staples from kimchi to gasoline in South Korea are adding to record losses on inflation-protected notes and the country's biggest bond fund manager is still cautious.

North Korea has executed the uncle of its leader Kim Jong-Un after a shock purge, state news agency KCNA said Friday, branding the once-powerful Jang Song-Thaek "despicable human scum" and a "traitor for all ages".

To many around the world, it made little sense: The world's most powerful government, so mired in dysfunction that it couldn't operate.

BAGHDAD ― Korea Aerospace Industries signed a $1.1 billion contract to sell 24 FA-50 light attack aircraft to Iraq, Thursday, the most lucrative defense export deal by local players.

Eastar Jet's most recent addition to its network is Hong Kong. Daily flights from Seoul Incheon launched on 5 December but face significant competition from the likes of Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways and Korean Air, who all operate multiple daily flights.

North Korea: A South Korean TV station carried a story that might help explain North Korea's unprecedented treatment of Kim Jong Un's uncle as an object lesson for disloyalty.

South Korea has condemned Japan for publishing a video in 10 languages challenging its sovereignty over a tiny group of islets at the heart of a territorial dispute, demanding Tokyo remove it.

The pilot of a South Korean airliner that crashed in San Francisco in July felt very stressed about touching down without a functioning instrument landing system to guide him, according to newly released documents.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday lost its bid to ban sales of Apple Inc's older iPhone and iPad in South Korea, as a court dismissed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. firm had infringed three of Samsung's mobile patents.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday lost its bid to ban sales of Apple Inc's older iPhone and iPad in South Korea, as a court dismissed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. firm had infringed three of Samsung's mobile patents.

During a heated exchange between Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Rep. John Shimkus , the congressman said talking to Sebelius is "like talking to the Republic of Korea."

Divers dressed as Santa Claus perform underwater at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, and the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, The annual show at both acuariums attracts visitors until Christmas Day.

Officials with the Mississippi National Guard and G.V. Montgomery VA are announcing Wednesday the distribution of a 60th Anniversary book of the Korean War.

The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company proposed Wednesday that South Korea purchase a combination of 40 Eurofighter Typhoons and 20 F-35s for its next-generation fighter procurement project.

A law under consideration in South Korea's parliament has sparked vociferous debate by grouping popular online games such as "StarCraft" with gambling, drugs and alcohol as an anti-social addiction the government should do more to stamp out.

In light of Jang Song-thaek -- the once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un -- being dismissed from all posts, rumors are sprouting over the fall of the hermit kingdom's former No.2. On Tuesday, The Herald Business newspaper reported that Jang had attempted to overthrow the youthful leader in order to hoist Kim's elder half-brother ... (more)

South Korea on Tuesday endorsed a plan to acquire three additional Aegis destroyers for deployment in the mid-2020s, amid intensifying regional competition to boost maritime defense.

Rumors out of the Korean company's homeland indicate that a ninth version of the Galaxy S 4 phone may soon be released.