Investigators have traced a co-ordinated cyber attack that paralysed tens of thousands of computers at six South Korean banks and media companies to a Chinese internet protocol address, but it is still unclear who orchestrated the attack, authorities in Seoul said.

A Chinese internet address was the source of a cyberattack on one company hit in a massive South Korean network shutdown that affected 32,000 computers at six banks and media companies, initial findings indicated today.

Computer networks at two major South Korean banks and three top TV broadcasters went into mass shutdown today, paralysing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyber attack by North Korea.

THE buzz of the famous Wall Street stock exchange floor is coming to Limerick.

North Korea’s No. 2 leader said today any progress at revived talks on the communist nation’s nuclear program will depend on the United States, according to a news report, an indication that any breakthrough at the negotiations could be difficult.

A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk claimed today that the South Korean scientist admitted most of the stem cells he produced and documented in a journal article were faked, according to news reports.

South Korea’s president said his nation was “wrenched with grief” over the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq.

South Korea will start shipping €22.5m in relief goods next week to a North Korean town devastated by a deadly train explosion, officials said.

The Kemmy Business School (KBS) at the University of Limerick has announced its first business advisory board.

The pro-government Uri Party took a majority in South Korea’s hotly contested parliamentary elections today.

A TOP US envoy ended a diplomatic shuttle through Asia on Sunday, reporting no new initiative to defuse a nuclear crisis with isolated North Korea amid signs that Washington wants to talk, but only on its own terms.