The Olympic roster for the joint Korean women's hockey team appears to be taking shape, as a shroud of mystery came over the 35-deep squad on Tuesday.The joint team had three practice sessions on Tuesday, at Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung, the site of its three group stage games during the

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was released Monday after an appellate court handed him a suspended sentence dismissing most of his key charges in a bribery and corruption scandal that led to the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye last year.The Seoul High Court sentenced Lee to

Conservative civic groups held a massive rally Saturday against North Korea's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, with some members burning North Korea's flag and photos of the North's leader Kim Jong-un.Supporters of former President Park Geun-hye repeated their claim that

North Korean Olympic athletes checked in to their living quarters for the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Games amid tight security on Thursday.Pyongyang's vice sports minister Won Kil-u led a delegation of 32, including 10 athletes, to Gangneung, a sub-host city for all ice events during the Feb. 9

South and North Korean skiers will train together at a major ski resort in the North this week as scheduled, as the U.S. has approved the cooperation project despite its sanctions on the nuclear-armed communist nation, the Ministry of Unification announced Wednesday.The South's delegation will h

South Korean tennis sensation Chung Hyeon returned home to a hero's welcome Sunday after his historic run at the Australian Open.Chung was greeted by hundreds of cheering fans at Incheon International Airport. The 21-year-old said he was surprised to see massive crowds."I didn't know this m

South Korea's working-age population is shrinking much faster than in other countries after hitting its peak in 2016, a report said Tuesday.According to the Health and Welfare Forum published by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), only the under-40 population was projecte

Police on Friday found the body of a 5-year-old missing girl on a hillside in the western coastal city of Gunsan following her father's confession to killing her, officials said.The Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency said that the body of Koh Jun-hee was wrapped in a towel under a tree on the hill

Police on Monday raided the homes of an owner and a manager of a fire-ravaged fitness center in the central city of Jecheon to investigate if they were negligent in preventing last week's disaster that left 29 people dead and dozens injured.The investigators searched their houses and cars and co

A fire occurred at the construction site of an apartment complex in Suwon, south of Seoul on Monday, claiming one life and injuring 14 people, firefighters said.The blaze, which occurred at around 2:46 p.m., is presumed to have started by welding being done by construction workers at the site, they

The death toll jumped to 29 as rescue workers searched a scorched, smoke-filled commercial building in the southern city of Jecheon on Thursday after a fire engulfed the building, firefighters said.The fire started from a vehicle in the first floor parking lot of an eight-story building in the city,

Police said Tuesday they raided a university hospital in western Seoul over allegations that they mishandled the treatment of four premature babies in an intensive care unit, resulting in their mysterious deaths this weekend.The crime unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent its investigato

On the occasion of the National Day of Romania, Ambassador Mihai Ciompec of Romania in Seoul and Mrs. Flavia-Athena Kloos hosted a reception at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2017.Many important guests attended from various quarters of Korean society, who included Deputy Minister Noh Kyu-duk o

By Lee Kyung-sik“There is only one person in the Republic of Korea who is able to achieve real national reunification of the Korean peninsula.” A friend of mine told me so recently. It certainly was like a bolt from the blue.“Who could be that person?” I wanted to know.North Korea's Kim Jong-un

Starting with a splendid opening ceremony held on November 11, 2017, the 23-day ‘Ho Chi Minh-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2017’, the third global joint event of the traditional Gyeongju World Culture Expo, raised its curtain in the Nguyen Hue Street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Nguyen Hue Street is

President Moon Jae-in and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of the Republic of Uzbekistan agreed on Nov. 23, 2017 to enhance bilateral ties and cooperation between the two countries during the latter’s visit to Korea at the invitation of President Moon.At the Korean-Uzbek summit meeting at the Presidenti

Ambassador Mohamed Alharthy of the Sultanate of Oman in Seoul stunned the Korean audience with an almost impeccable Korean speech to some 500 distinguished guests, at the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul at noon on Nov. 11, 2017, which was in celebration of the 47th National Day of Oman, the 77th birthday a

Prosecutors will question Jun Byung-hun, the senior presidential secretary for political affairs, on Monday as a suspect in a bribery case involving his two former aides, according to the Seoul prosecutors' office.He offered to resign over the scandal Thursday.Jun's two former aides have bee

The luncheon reception hosted by Ambassador Mohammed El Amine Derragui and Mrs. Derragui at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul to mark the National Day of Algeria on Nov. 4, 2017 is entirely different from other diplomatic functions.While speaking to the guests, Ambassador Derragui was so emotion-stricken tha

Vietnam has become an important link in an extensive economic connectivity network of 59 partners, including APEC members, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son saysVietnam is ready to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017 with all preparations being basically completed on sche