A corporal in South Korea's marine corps went on shooting rampage today, killing four fellow soldiers and wounding another on a Yellow Sea island base near the country's tense border with North Korea, officials said.

A typhoon slammed into South Korea today, killing three people in what is thought to be the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years.

Police said today that a 69-year-old man upset over a land dispute has admitted setting the fire in Seoul that destroyed the 14th-century gateway considered South Korea’s top cultural treasure.