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In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors' success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate of an examination hall in Seoul, South Korea.

It's intriguing news: the claim by South Korea's spy agency that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un probably sacked the country's second-most-powerful official - his uncle.

It's intriguing news: the claim by South Korea's spy agency that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un probably sacked the country's second-most-powerful official - his uncle.

A nuclear reactor at South Korea's Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant was temporarily shut down Wednesday due to what appears to be a problem with its generation turbine that pose no danger of radiation leak, plant operators said.

The heads of two U.S. Senate committees overseeing national security have expressed concern to the Obama administration over a recent network supply deal between China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Washington ally South Korea.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden should not expect to make much progress in defusing tensions over the East China Sea if he plans to repeat "erroneous and one-sided remarks" on the issue when he visits China, a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.

About a decade ago, a huge tract of land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea west of Seoul was a barren wasteland.

When the CheongShim Peace World Center first opened in late 2011, the AV technology team knew that the vast size of the arena would dictate the type of audio and data transport system that would support it.

Bitcoin will get you bread in South Korea, thanks to a bakery in Incheon that took the landmark step of allowing customers to pay with the world's most common virtual currency.

South Korean students take their College Scholastic Ability Test at a school in November 2010 in Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, considered the power behind the throne, is believed to have been dismissed from his posts, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, suggesting a huge upheaval in one of the world's most secretive states.

Illinois lawmakers are set to consider a potentially historic plan to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation $100 billion pension crisis.

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Taiwanese Air Force lieutenant-general Shen I-Ming speaks about the Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea, which China created in disputed airspace last week.

U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday condemned North Korea's detention of an 85-year-old American and said she was checking a report of recent mass executions in the country.

The results of the international school tests - known as Pisa tests - are to be published by the OECD on Tuesday.

The second daughter of Samsung chairman Lee Kun-Hee has been made a president at the firm's de-facto holding company, it said on Monday, cement his family's hold on the South Korean giant.

Biden heads to Asia for talks with Japan, China, South KoreaU.S. Vice President Joe Biden headed to Asia Sunday for talks with Japanese, Chinese and South Korean leaders on regional and global issues.

The nation's arms procurement agency said Wednesday that it will finalize a deal of importing the Taurus air-to-ground standoff cruise missiles for its F-15K fleet next month.

French Ambassador to South Korea Jerome Pasquier poses for a photo with the Corea Image and Culture Institute president Choi Jung-hwa during the CQ 16 graduation party at the ambassador's residence in Seoul on Tuesday.