Seoul Lantern Festival 2011: Gorgeous Photos and Video

Seoul Lights It Up for 2011 Lantern Festival The Seoul Lantern Festival is underway from November 4 through 20. If you're in South Korea, check it out. For the rest of us, we can only experience the lantern festival...

Happy Mooncake Festival

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DPRK Denies Sinking S. Korean Warship: Demands Investigation

An NDC Inspection Group was dispatched to South Korea by Kim Jong II in reference to the sinking of the S. Korean warship "Cheonan" which caused 46 deaths by a torpedo attack and was blamed on North Korea. The N....

Jong II disapproves of 'Yellow Sea' war games

The 'Yellow Sea' war games have started. Officials are unsure how N. Korea will react to the joint military exercises after they vowed not to cooperate last week. Kim Jong II fired back during last week's...

S. Korea and N. Korea on the "Brink of War"

Recent talks between South Korea and North Korea proved unsuccessful and the deliberate violation of what is considered an 'Armistice Agreement' between the South and North Korea caused Kim Jong II to make a...

Kimchi Crisis Hits South Korea:Napa Cabbage Shortage, Prices Soar

Shortage Of Napa Cabbage Causes Kimchi Prices To Soar In South Korea Imagine if Ketchup or Salsa prices in the USA skyrocketed all of sudden? Well, the much beloved Korean condiment Kimchi is the equivalent of...

Balancing act – Gates and Clinton, Defense and State in S. Korea

This is a significant show of unity and force to have two senior cabinet officials in S. Korea at the same time. If you have never visited South Korea, it is vibrant. The people are hard working and hard...

Air Force works with South Korean military during exercise

By Ryan Mattox SEOUL, South Korea -- For the son of a Demopolis woman, staying combat ready at his base on the south side of the Korean DMZ is an everyday event. But during a two-week period, recently, he and other forces here took that training to a completely new level....

Henry Kissinger Taken to Hospital With Stomach Pains in S. Korea

Henry Kissinger Was Taken to Severance Hospital in South Korea The former U.S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 86, was taken to a hospital in South Korea on Saturday after suffering from stomach pains. Some sources are calling it a stomach virus or a stomach bug. He is...

South Korean infants on sales Part 2: the truth revealed

"It was disturbing for many people to hear the recent report exposing the South Korean black market community selling babies on the Internet. The report was exposing the illegal adoption over the Internet in South Korea. Some, based on the report, are teenagers who are...

Obama and Lee urge N Korea talks

Let see what happens to this Obama plea, at a guess not a lot. " US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Lee Myung-bak, have urged North Korea to return to international nuclear negotiations....

Korean Navies exchange fire

The naval patrols of North and South Korea exchanged fire in disputed waters on Tuesday morning. "“Our high-speed patrol boat repelled the North Korean patrol boat,” the South Korean Office of the Joint Chiefs...

India, China and Australia on economic recovery fast-track: IMF

The Washington based International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said that the three economies of India, China and Australia were recovering at a especially rapid pace, which suggests that there would be...

Beyonce returns to Seoul or does she?

Next week the queen bee of pop flies back into the land of the morning calm with a deafening buzz that dwarfs her previous appearance. You see the newly Destiny Childless singer of two years ago, dewy eyed...

Unification Church: 10,000 Couples in Mass Wedding

10,000 couples got married in a mass wedding ceremony held by the Unification Church. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church's leader, presided over the ceremony, but his son, Moon Hyung-jin, performed...

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