Lee Hae-chan formally stepped down as South Korea’s prime minister today, a day after the president accepted his resignation following strong opposition criticism over Lee playing golf during a national railway strike.

South Korea’s prime minister offered his resignation today after drawing a firestorm of criticism for playing golf rather than overseeing the government’s response to a railway strike, the president’s spokesman said.

South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk stood by his purported breakthroughs in stem cell technology today despite accusations he falsified key evidence.

A GAUNT Buddhist nun entered the 100th day of a hunger strike yesterday, consuming only water and salt, for a cause many South Koreans find unfamiliar: saving salamanders.