Tag: South Korea
Seoul: North Korea fires rockets, hours after UN sanctions vote
Seoul (dpa) - North Korea fired several short-range rockets off its the eastern coast Thursday, South Korea said, just hours after the UN imposed...
Life sentence confirmed for captain of sunken South Korean ferry
Seoul (dpa) - The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea last year saw his life sentence upheld Thursday for the murder...
Leaders of South Korea, China, Japan hold first summit in three...
Seoul (dpa) - Leaders of South Korea, Japan and China met in Seoul on Sunday for their first three-way discussions in more than three...
South Korean President Retains Incumbent Prime Minister
SEOUL, June 26 - South Korean President Park Geun-hye has decided to retain incumbent Prime Minister Chung Hong-won after two nominees for the government's...
South Korean PM nominee offers to withdraw candidacy
SEOUL, June 24 - South Korea's Prime Minister nominee Moon Chang-keuk offered to resign from his candidacy Tuesday, two weeks after being nominated for...
South Korean Prime Minister Nominee withdraws candidacy
SEOUL, May 28 - South Korea's prime minister nominee Ahn Dai-hee on Wednesday offered to resign as a candidate for the No. 2 post...
Death toll rises to 187 in South Korean ferry disaster
JINDO, South Korea, April 26 -- Death toll from the South Korean ferry disaster rose to 187 on Saturday morning after two bodies were...
South Korea ferry toll hits 146 as search gets tougher!
Jindo, April 23 - The grim work of recovering bodies from the submerged South Korea ferry proceeded rapidly on Wednesday, with the official death toll...
Ship with 471 people sinks off South Korean Coast
Seoul, April 16 - A passenger ship with 471 people aboard, mostly high school students, was sinking in waters off South Korea's coast, the media reported...
Birth Rate Continues To Fall In South Korea
SEOUL, Aug 27 - Birth rate in South Korea continued to fall amid the trend of delaying marriage and postponing having children, a government...
