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
Former President Park Geun-hye headed back home Wednesday after over 21 hours of questioning by the prosecution on a string of corruption allegations that removed her from office earlier this month.Park began to undergo interrogation at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern
Former President Park Geun-hye's supporters and opponents held opposing rallies outside the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul on Tuesday, as the ousted leader appeared before prosecutors to be questioned over allegations of corruption.Scores of demonstrators from t
Former President Park Geun-hye was questioned by prosecutors Tuesday over a string of corruption allegations that removed her from office earlier this month.Park appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul at around 9:30 a.m. as a suspect of various charges inclu
An appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling to dismiss a South Korean business tycoon who was accused of violating the accounting law for years.The Securities and Futures Commission under the Financial Services Commission (FSC) ordered Hyosung Group to dismiss its chairman Cho Suk-rai, 8
Small and medium-sized South Korean companies doing business in China are also bearing the brunt of a string of disruptive acts by Chinese authorities in an apparent protest of Seoul's planned deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system, industry sources said Tuesday.Beijing has been heaping a slew
Former President Park Geun-hye apologized to the public over an influence-peddling scandal as she arrived at the prosecutors' office on Tuesday to be questioned over a string of corruption allegations that removed her from office earlier this month.Park appeared at the Seoul Central District Pro
Former President Park Geun-hye is set to be questioned by prosecutors Tuesday over a string of corruption allegations that removed her from office earlier this month.Park is scheduled to arrive at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul at around 9:30 a.m. She will under
The White House expressed concern Monday about North Korea's weekend test of a high-powered rocket engine amid concern the communist nation could use the engine to carry out a threatened test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S."We continue to be concerne
Former President Park Geun-hye faces allegations of bribery, abuse of power, coercion and leak of government secrets in 13 difference cases involving her close friend and former aides.Park, Korea's first leader to be ousted by impeachment, is scheduled to appear at the Seoul Central District Pro
The foreign ministers of South Korea and Vietnam discussed how to jointly rein in North Korea's prohibited nuclear tests and missile launches during their talks in Vietnam on Monday.South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, who is doubling as