North Korea Seizes South Korean Fishing Vessel

North Korea seized a fishing boat from South Korea early evening on Wednesday, July 29 (PST), after the vessel inadvertently crossed the country's border in the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan).According to officials from Seoul and the South Korea defense ministry,...

South Korean Parliament Fight Video

A full-on brawl erupted yesterday in South Korean Parliament. The South Korean National Assembly turned into a bar brawl from a Jackie Chan film as members of Parliament voted on a media reform bill. The ruling...

OhMyNews to contributors: Show Me the Money

Korean-based citizen journalism site  OhMyNews has asked its 100,000 contributors to pony up some hard cash, not just more stories, a blog on Forbes has just reported. The posting comes from PlanetSizedBrain,...

North Korea May Fire Ballistic Missile Toward Hawaii: Report

North Korea may fire a missile towards Hawaii says a new report coming from Japan, and this would take place in early July. This report comes as Russia and China urges North Korea to return to the international disarmament talks.  The missile, which would most likely be...

Iran's National Soccer Team joins Protest for Hossein Mousavi

Iran's National Soccer Side played a World Cup qualifying match against South Korea in Seoul.  When the team ran onto field, at the start of the game, players wore a green armband in support of Hussein...

Megan Fox wears sheer black dress to Transformers premiere in S.K

Meghan Fox has outdone herself once again, by wearing a sheer black dress to the Transformers 2 premiere in South Korea. She delighted audiences yesterday with a thigh-baring purple dress and the internet has gone wild once again for a photo of Fox in the black dress."Fox...

Roh Moo-hyun Funeral in Seoul Draws Thousands in Grief, Outrage

“Today condolences, tomorrow anger” — those were the words displayed on banners as millions of people across South Korea expressed their sorrow and anger as a funeral was held for Roh Moo-hyun, the former South...

N Korea threatens to attack S. Korea warships: Clinton speaks out

North Korea has threatened to attack U.S and South Korea warships that are in the waters near Koreas' disupted maritime border, just two days after firing nuclear test missiles. Meanwhile U.S Secretary of State,...

N Korea threatens attack on Japan if satellite intercepted

North Korea at it again. Flexing the mussles once again, the country clearly warned against any attempts by Japan or US to shoot down the satelite launch that is scheduled to lauch in this weekend."SEOUL: North Korea's military threatened on Thursday to attack "major...

Testing Obama?North Korea says all agreements with South are void

This could be a plan byKim Jong-Il  to test the new president, to see if he will respond."North Korea sharpened its hostility toward South Korea on Friday by abruptly declaring that it was scrapping a...

Samsung Posts First Q4 Loss

Korean electronics giant Samsung, shortly after restructuring, has posted its first-ever Q4 loss, citing lagging sales and lower pricing on memory modules: anyone who has bought RAM in the past year will know what...

Samsung Restructures, Reshuffles Exec Roster

Samsung is restructuring its manufacturing divisions into two main bodies, as described below. Most, though, will look at the second division and prefer Gizmodo's breakdown. " The electronics giant will house such...

S.Korea Anti-Israel Protest Color Palestinian Flag Together

Press interview & demo for Gaza @ Israeli Embassy, Seoul, South Korea January 5, 2009. South Korean Peace Activists Protest and Color the Palestinian Flag Together.

Euthanasia Approved first time in S. Korea

"A Seoul court Friday accepted a family's request to stop treatment for a mother in a vegetative state in a landmark ruling that approved euthanasia for the first time in South Korea. The Seoul Western District Court ordered feeding and ventilator tubes to be removed from...

36% of Korean Male Adults Obese

"Thirty-six out of every 100 Korean male adults are obese, according to a report Monday. The consumption of high calorie foods and less physical exercise are responsible for the emergence of the overweight adults, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. It...

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