Although the US claims it is ready to ‘solve’ North Korea, the people there don’t seem to care much for the rhetoric, says Hyung-jin Kim.

Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has denied any wrongdoing after being removed from office over a massive corruption scandal.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of central Seoul today to celebrate the ousting of President Park Geun-hye.

South Korea's Constitutional Court has formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil.

A Buddhist monk is critically ill in hospital after setting himself on fire to protest against South Korea's settlement with Japan on compensation for wartime sex slaves.

Large crowds of South Koreans were expected to march in the streets calling for the permanent removal of impeached President Park Geun-hye and extending the biggest protest movement in the country to Christmas Eve.

South Korea's parliament has voted to strip the president of her power.

Five South Koreans are on trial in Germany over the alleged murder of a relative during an exorcism ritual.

South Korean and US troops have begun large-scale military exercises, in an annual test of their defences against North Korea.

Five South Koreans have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in an apparent exorcism ritual in the German city of Frankfurt.

After a freeze of more than three years, the leaders of South Korea and Japan resumed formal talks focusing on North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear bombs, and a long-running dispute over Japan’s wartime atrocities.

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 Korean officials warned the United States that another war on the Korean Peninsula would leave no Americans alive to sign a surrender document as the country marked the anniversary of the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War more than six decades ago.

A major Japanese corporation will offer a landmark apology this weekend for using US prisoners of war for forced labour during World War II, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre that is hosting the event.

The head of a UN Commission of Inquiry said more efforts were needed, including the use of balloons and computer hacking, to tell the North Korean people about its damning report on human rights conditions in their country run by Kim Jong-Un.

A former Korean Air Lines executive has been arrested for allegedly endangering flight safety by delaying a plane because her macadamia nuts were not served the way she wanted.

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.

A new lithium battery could triple the range of electric cars and reduce costs, and be in use within 12 months.

North Korea continued its string of rocket and missile firings, launching three short-range projectiles into the waters off its east coast ahead of a major holiday, Seoul said.

Pope Francis has arrived in South Korea on the first papal visit to the Asian nation in 25 years, stepping off a plane on to a red carpet and greeting the president, Catholics and grieving relatives of the ferry disaster.

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We’ve a week left and maybe a lot longer for some, as the World Cup post-mortems linger on.

As parents of the dead wept, more than 70 teenagers who survived a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of their schoolmates walked in a procession to their first classes since the disaster.

The parents of a runaway South Korean soldier who has fled to a forest after allegedly killing five comrades near the North Korean border has pleaded with him to surrender.

WHEN Hyundai built the first generation i30, it redefined the South Korean firm. The Kia Cee’d, which is pretty much the same as the i30, did the same for Hyundai’s sister company.

South Korean prosecutors are seeking to formally arrest the head of the company that owns the Sewol ferry as part of a prove into its sinking, that left more than 300 people dead or missing, officials said.

South Korean prosecutors have detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.

A subway train has smashed into another train stopped at a station in South Korea’s capital Seoul, causing minor injuries for scores of people.

New evidence shows that the sunken South Korean ferry did not make a sharp turn shortly before the disaster, but changed course much more gradually, it has emerged.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has said the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry committed “unforgivable, murderous acts” in the disaster, which left more than 300 people dead or missing.

Fifa’s one-year transfer ban on Barcelona shows how concerned the world football authorities are to uphold their regulations about the transfer of young players.

North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s waters in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five frontline South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said.

Several hundred elderly South and North Korean relatives clung to each other, rocking and weeping, as they met for the first time in 60 years at a reunion for families divided by the Korean War.

A bombing that killed three South Koreans and an Egyptian driver on the Sinai Peninsula targeted a bus filled with Korean Christians who had saved for years to visit sites mentioned in the Bible on their church’s 60th anniversary, officials said today.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has described his once-powerful uncle and mentor, whom he purged and executed, as “factionalist filth” in a new year message in which he boasted of a surge of internal strength.

Police officers threw knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers’ seat belts.

North and South Korea have begun preparatory talks at a “truce village” on their heavily-armed border aimed at setting ground rules for a higher-level discussion on easing animosity and restoring stalled rapprochement projects.

North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast today, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.

South Korea has vowed to take “grave measures” if Pyongyang rejects talks on a jointly run factory park shut for nearly a month.

It’s a month since the UN passed a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear testing. Since then a geopolitical game of cat and mouse has taken place between Pyongyang, Seoul, and Washington. David Keelaghan in Seoul looks at the potential consequences.