South Korea News

Authorities in South Korea have raided the Seoul office of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche for alleged involvement in illegal sales of its swine flu drug Tamiflu.

Tens of thousands of South Korean workers rallied Saturday to protest the government's plan to begin implementing contentious labor laws.

South Korea must do more to open its market to U.S. cars before President Barack Obama will send a free trade agreement signed in June 2007 to Congress for a vote, the chief U.S. trade negotiator said on Thursday.

South Korea on Friday ratified a free trade deal with India that promises to slash tariffs on goods and services between two of Asia's biggest economies.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak reiterated his earlier stance that he has no interest in an "unprincipled" inter-Korean summit, the presidential office said Friday.

The United States is open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang if North Korea shows it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said on Friday.

Alexander Vershbow on September 12, 2008 in Seoul, South Korea. PRAGUE a ' Senior U.S. and Czech defense officials held talks Friday to discuss ways for the Czech Republic to participate in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan.

From the NYT ; Today, the mix of envy and loathing of the West, especially of white Americans, is apparent in daily life.

He talks about his new film which documents the imprisonment of young men who refuse to enter the military... and the growing movement against mandatory military service.

4, 2009. Cha has passed the written exam required for a driver's license Wednesday after hundreds of failed attempts over the past four years, police said Friday.

The Korean government is planning a major deregulation of the nation's legal and other professional services markets, the Korea Herald reports .

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive.

In a recent trip to Seoul and surrounding cities, delivering lectures in some universities, my attention was called to the way South Koreans would behave every time their national anthem is played.

South Korea, the OECD's fastest-growing carbon polluter, has ditched its weakest voluntary 2020 emissions target and will choose one of two stricter options ahead of a global meeting in Copenhagen.

I just had the pleasure of spending two days in Yeosu, Sewarda TMs sister city in South Korea.

JEJU: The World Boxing Council wants to banish once and for all fathers from working their sons' corners during fights after a study showed it could prove fatal.

Tell me something I don't know. Yet there are some serious problems with how the situation is portrayed, for it is neither original nor enlightening, and makes rather grand generalizations about the nation.

A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled that a prominent painting by a deceased Korean artist is genuine, but vindicated a local magazine that raised allegations of forgery, settling a mystery that had plagued the Korean art world for nearly two years, Yonhap News reported.

Kwon Young-soo , chief executive of LG Display, shakes hands with Xue Xiao Feng, chairman of Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District Administration Committee, after signing an agreement on the building of a new LCD plant in Guangzhou.

SEOUL: Singapore's state investor Temasek will pump 284.7 billion won, about US$242 million , to buy shares in South Korean light-emitting diode company Seoul Semiconductor and its affiliate.