In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

Given the limitations of many in the class, the Kia actually can hold its head high, says Declan Colley.

The Korean Peninsula may be the most dangerous place in the world with the threat swapping between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ratcheting up tensions in the region. Brian Keane is chairperson of Seoul Gaels GAA club which lies 35 miles from the border with North Korea. He tells Colm O’Connor about life — and gaelic games — in the Far East in these tense times

Eli Lake says that US citizens should want their government to undermine the gulag state of North Korea, not help preserve it with another compromise    

Donald Trump has threatened North Korea with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" after suggestions the reclusive communist state has cleared a final hurdle to being able to strike the United States with a nuclear missile.

In 1998, leaving university, Neil worked as an editor for a dot com travel company.

Kia has brought a new hybrid model to market, but the Niro is unexciting to drive, says Declan Colley.

There was a time not so long ago when Hyundai’s marketing thrust here in Ireland was based on the premise that the Korean marque was ‘Ireland’s fastest growing car brand’ and a very neat little tag line it was, adding weight and substance to otherwise bland advertising.

FOUR of the top contenders in the rapidly expanding, wildly popular crossover segment are essentially two pairs of cars which are very closely related to each other.

Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans have began three days of reunions with loved ones many have had no contact with since war divided the North and South more than 60 years ago.

Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans have began three days of reunions with loved ones many have had no contact with since war divided the North and South more than 60 years ago.

An 80-year-old South Korean man was unconscious and experiencing breathing difficulties after setting himself on fire during an anti-Japan protest in Seoul, yesterday, hospital officials said.

North Korea will establish its own time zone next week by putting the clocks back by 30 minutes.

North Korea will establish its own time zone next week by putting the clocks back by 30 minutes.

It’s ran in the West End, Broadway, and even Korea. As the award-winning Once opens in Dublin, John Meagher takes a look behind the scenes — and chats to Glen Hansard about seeing his real-life relationship on stage.

NORTH KOREA: French-trained chefs are cooking up a storm in Pyongyang where North Korea’s privileged classes are devouring their baguettes, a pro-North newspaper reported, even as much of the population outside the capital struggles to feed itself.

Australia 2 South Korea 1 (after extra-time)

It’s a long way from Dublin to Changwon in South Korea but that hasn’t stopped an all girl hip hop dance troop from Dublin taking Korea by storm and winning a 10,000Euro prize along the way.

A Korean Air flight attendant has described being insulted and shamed by the airline's executive who ordered him to be removed and the plane returned over macadamia nuts, and then being asked to lie about the incident to investigators.

The unconfirmed email has been doing the rounds online.

THERE is something very engaging about the character of smaller cars than most people ever give them credit for and while many might dismiss them as being mere ‘starter cars’ there is a lot more to them than that.

Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Asia yesterday by challenging Koreans — from the North and the South — to reject the “mindset of suspicion and confrontation” that clouds their relations and find new ways to forge peace on the war-divided peninsula. 

Pope Francis has wrapped up his first trip to Asia by challenging Koreans, both North and the South, to reject the “mindset of suspicion and confrontation” that clouds their relations.

GIVEN all the palaver in recent times about the advent of the Crossover, and how the segment is going to swallow whole a load of other mini-segments due to its all-conquering effect on buyers, there is still a conservative vibe going on out there. And, curiously, Honda are at the thick of it.

South Korea 2 Algeria 4

South Korea 2 Algeria 4

KIA has made tremendous strides in Ireland, and in every developed market, in the last five years or so. It has transformed itself: it was a moderately interesting and cost-effective alternative to the established European and Japanese brands.

FOR two years, I have been banging on about how the "Koreans are coming" and I’m not referring to the military strength of Kim Jong-Un’s recently inherited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but to the industrial strength of their hated southern neighbours in the Republic of Korea.

ON Feb 12, 2013, North Korea carried out its third nuclear test in the run­up to the inauguration of a new administration, led by me, in the South. Around that time, the Presidential Transition Committee adopted the “Trust­Building Process on the Korean Peninsula” as a key policy of the new administration, aimed at creating a fresh dynamic in inter­Korean relations.

Investigators in Laos have picked up underwater signals that they believe are coming from the black box of a passenger plane that crashed into the Mekong River last week.

Rory McIlroy shot a final-round 67 to claim a share of second place at the Kolon Korea Open.

Teams of French and Thai experts plied the vast and muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment today, ramping up the search for a Lao Airlines plane, 19 bodies still missing from the crash and clues to why the aircraft went down three days earlier.

Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River in Laos after a plane crashed in stormy weather, killing 49 people from 11 countries.

PSY's new single will introduce a brand new dance craze.

A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning today, saying that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars”.

When North Korea carried out its latest nuclear test, people in South Korea had little option but to try and get on with their daily lives, writes Paul Quinn

Four women’s doubles pairs have been disqualified from the Olympic badminton competition after deliberately trying to lose matches.

Four women’s doubles pairs have been disqualified from the Olympic badminton competition after deliberately trying to lose matches.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) have launched disciplinary proceedings after four women’s doubles pairs apparently tried to throw matches at London 2012.