S. Korea's Park vows to rebalance export-led economySouth Korean President Park Geun-Hye unveiled Tuesday a three-year plan to rebalance the export-reliant economy, investing $3.7 billion on start-ups, boosting domestic spending and getting more young people and women in the workforce.
25 February 2014
Military drills to test inter-Korean detenteSouth Korea kicked off its annual joint military exercises with the United States on Monday, despite vocal opposition from North Korea which will test a recent upswing in cross-border ties.
24 February 2014
LG to launch new smartwatch this year: CEOLG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth.
24 February 2014
Reunited Korean families hold tearful final farewellThe joy of being reunited for the first time in decades turned to grief for North and South Korean families Saturday as a rare cross-border visit ended, with participants unlikely to ever see their relatives again.
23 February 2014
S. Koreans head for bittersweet family reunion in NorthA group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.
Thousands marry in 'Moonie' mass weddingThousands of Unification Church members were married in a mass wedding in South Korea -- only the second such event since the death of their "messiah" and controversial church founder Sun Myung Moon.
12 February 2014
Japan PM as unpopular as Kim Jong-Un: S. Korea pollWith Seoul-Tokyo relations at their lowest ebb for years, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is as unpopular with South Koreans as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
12 February 2014
N. Korea scraps US envoy's invite as tensions mountTensions tightened on the Korean peninsula Monday, as North Korea cancelled a US envoy's visit over a jailed Korean American, and Seoul and Washington set dates for military drills denounced by Pyongyang.
10 February 2014
US drops antitrust probe of Samsung over patentsUS Department of Justice officials on Friday dropped an antitrust investigation into whether Samsung abused essential mobile gadget patents in its ongoing battle with Apple.
09 February 2014
North, South Korea meet for talks on family reunionsNorth and South Korea were set to hold talks Wednesday on resuming reunions for families separated by the Korean War -- an emotive issue that Pyongyang has been accused of exploiting as a bargaining chip.
05 February 2014
S. Korea cleans up after oil spillSouth Korea's coastguard said Monday it would take at least two weeks to clean up the shoreline fouled by an oil spill off the southwestern port of Yeosu.
S. Korea presses North to take action on family reunionsSouth Korea Thursday called on North Korea to honour its promise to hold a reunion of families from the two countries who have separated for decades, after days of silence by Pyongyang.
30 January 2014
S. Korea vows harsh penalties for data leaksSouth Korean regulators Wednesday vowed harsh corporate penalties for data theft, as angry customers swamped credit card offices for a third day after 20 million people had their financial information stolen.
22 January 2014
S. Korea to spend $1.5 bn on 5G 'movie-in-a-second' serviceSouth Korea, already one of the most wired countries on earth, Wednesday announced a 1.6 trillion won ($1.5 billion) plan to set up a next-generation 5G wireless service quick enough to download full-length films in a second.