Moon Jae-in of the liberal Democratic Party remained the front-runner in South Korea's presidential race for the 12th consecutive week, a poll showed Monday.The former opposition leader gained 34.4 percent last week, down 2.2 percentage points from the previous week, according to the survey by R

North Korea on Monday condemned South Korea's unification ministry for the strained inter-Korean ties and confrontation between the two Koreas, saying that it should be disbanded.A spokesman at the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued a statement claiming that the ministry ha

North Korea on Sunday threatened pre-emptive strikes in response to South Korean and U.S. special operations troops' recent drills for incapacitating Pyongyang's leadership in case of conflict.The North Korean People's Army issued a statement saying that it is ready to fend off any attem

A South Korean deputy prime minister will leave for Kazakhstan this week as part of his two-nation trip to Central Asia to celebrate the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between South Korea and the region, and the 80th anniversary of ethnic Koreans' settlement there, the Education Ministry sa

The 6,800-ton Sewol ferry fully emerged from the water on Saturday showing its entire hull nearly a day after being loaded onto a semisubmersible transport vessel before later heading to shore, the South Korean government said."The semisubmersible ship buoyed up to lift the entire Sewol ferry off t

Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo won a landslide victory at the first primary of South Korea's minor centrist People's Party that kicked off on Saturday, gaining great leverage to become the party's presidential nominee. Ahn, one of the party's founders, garnered 35,170 votes, or 60.1 perc

Supporters and opponents of ousted President Park Geun-hye are set to stage rival mass rallies in central Seoul on Saturday as prosecutors mull over whether to seek to arrest the country's former leader on multiple corruption allegations.Anti-Park protesters have taken to the streets each Saturd

South Korea strongly protested Japan's renewed claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Friday in its recently authorized textbooks, calling on Tokyo to take immediate corrective measures.The foreign ministry called in Hideo Suzuki, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to lodge its of

North Korea has been scrambling to reinforce its cyberwarfare capabilities and the number of its professional hackers is estimated to have reached about 7,700, a report issued in Seoul said Friday.The report by the Korea Institute for National Unification said that South Korea should come up with co

The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), the largest lobby body for large companies here, said Friday that it would boost transparency and switch to the role of a think tank for the corporate sector.Huh Chang-soo, chairman of the FKI, announced a set of reform measures that centers around its pled

South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam will visit Egypt and India over the next week to discuss strategic cooperation with the "increasingly important" countries, the foreign ministry here said Friday.Lim will begin his two-day visit to Egypt on Saturday to hold talks with his Egypti

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a press statement Thursday in condemnation of North Korea's recent missile launch and high-thrust rocket engine test.It is the U.N. panel's third statement against its provocations so far this year.On Wednesday (Korea time), North Korea

By Kim Sung-minStaff reporterAmbassador Zahid Nasrulah Khan of Pakistan said, “Pakistan and Korea relations have grown from strength to strength in all fields, especially in trade and investment. Significantly, we are at the cusp of initiating the first round of FTA talks, very recently on 21st Marc

Samsung Electronics Co.'s Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun said Friday that a move to restructure the tech giant into a holding-company structure is "not easy" at the moment, suggesting the process may be delayed for the time being.The world's largest leading maker of smartphones and memory chip

The government said Friday that the salvage team successfully raised the sunken ferry Sewol to the target height above the sea, opening the way for its eventual transport to a nearby port.The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said that the upper part of the hull of the Sewol was some 13 meters above

The government said Friday it is making all out effort to successfully raise the Sewol ferry on the last day of favorable weather conditions, as the salvage team removes a ramp that has held up progress.The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said that as of 6:45 a.m., the joint team of the government

South Korea's top prosecutor on Thursday the prosecution will decide whether to seek the arrest of former President Park Geun-hye only on the basis of the law and principle and the result of the investigation.The former president returned home Wednesday after a 21-hour interrogation at the Seoul

The sunken ferry Sewol began emerging from the water in a massive salvage operation early Thursday, nearly three years after the ship sank and left more than 300 dead or missing in one of the country's worst maritime disasters.Officials said that part of the ship was seen above the water at 3:45

As giant barges were gearing up to lift the sunken Sewol ferry from the sea off South Korea's southwestern coast on Wednesday, family members of its deceased and missing passengers, mostly students from Danwon High School in Ansan, south of Seoul, were nervously waiting for news.The grief-strick

North Korea test-fired a missile from its east coast Wednesday that appears to have failed, South Korea's defense ministry said."North Korea fired one missile from an area near the Wonsan Air Base this morning but it's presumed to have failed," it said in a brief statement.The ministry add