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South Korean President Park Geun-hye. ©Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach S.Korea president apologises for army shooting South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologised Monday for a deadly front-line shooting rampage by an army conscript and called for a close look at abuses in barracks.
30 June 2014
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. ©Reuters/ Ed Jones S. Korea's Park keeps PM who resigned over ferry disaster After two failed attempts to appoint a new prime minister, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye announced Thursday her "agonised" decision to retain the incumbent who resigned over April's ferry disaster.
26 June 2014
A Samsung Gear Live smartwatch. ©Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Samsung, LG launch smartwatches with new Google software South Korea's Samsung and LG launched rival smartwatches powered by Google's new software as they jostle to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's next growth booster.
26 June 2014
©Reuters/Damir Sagolj S. Korean soldier who killed comrades in 'stable condition' A South Korean soldier who killed five comrades was in a stable condition Tuesday after an apparent suicide bid, doctors said, as details emerged of a final note he wrote regretting his actions.
24 June 2014
Photo courtesy of newskaz.ru Kazakhstan and South Korea to work on explorations in Karaganda Oblast Kazakhstan has signed an agreement with South Korea on geological exploration of Dyusenbai section in Karaganda Oblas.
22 June 2014
King of Jordan on official visit in Astana King of Jordan Abdullah II and Crown Prince of Jordan Hussein bin Al Abdullah arrived to Astana on an official visit on June 19.
20 June 2014
© Yaroslav Radlovsky Three major projects sealed by Kazakhstan and Korea Kazakhstan and Korea have agreed on three major joint projects: construction of the Balkhash Thermal Power Plant, construction of a gas chemical facility in Atyrau Oblast and development of Zhambyl oil and gas field.
20 June 2014
© Turar Kazangapov Kazakhstan and South Korea to establish 'technology for resources' cooperation Nursultan Nazarbayev declared that Kazakhstan and South Korea agreed to create a joint investment fund and transfer Korean technologies to Kazakhstan.
19 June 2014
Park Geun-hye during her state visit in Astana © Turar Kazangapov President Nazarbayev meets his South Korean counterpart in Astana Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev has met with South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye in Astana.
19 June 2014
Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Nurlan Idrissov signing the agreement. ©Turar Kazangapov South Korea and Kazakhstan sign agreement on visa-free regime Citizens of either country may enter the other country’s territory without applying for a visa if their intended sojourn doesn’t exceed one month.
19 June 2014
S.Korean president revamps cabinet after ferry tragedy South Korean President Park Geun-Hye revamped her cabinet Friday, replacing seven ministers in response to intense criticism over her administration's handling of April's ferry disaster.
13 June 2014
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. ©akorda.kz Nazarbayev to meet South Korean President and Italian PM Nursultan Nazarbayev will have meetings with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi.
10 June 2014
Samsung's new Tizen phone touted for bigger things Samsung on Tuesday unwrapped its new smartphone using the Tizen platform, a move aimed at breaking away from Google's Android and staking a claim to the "Internet of Things."
04 June 2014
Photo courtesy of voiceofrussia.com N. Korea sentences S. Korean 'spy' to hard labour for life North Korea sentenced a South Korean missionary to hard labour for life after accusing him of espionage and setting up an underground church, state media said Saturday, the latest Christian preacher to run into trouble in the secretive state.
31 May 2014
©Reuters/Truth Leem S. Korea hospice fire kills 21, patient detained A fire swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients early Wednesday, killing 21 people in what police said appeared to be an act of arson by an 81-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer.
28 May 2014
Yoo Byung-eun whose two sons own Chonghaejin Marine Co. the company to which the Sewol ferry belonged. Photo courtesy of dailymail.co.uk Reward for S. Korea ferry owner upped to $500,000 Under-pressure South Korean prosecutors on Monday upped to $500,000 a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive businessman in connection with last month's ferry disaster.
26 May 2014
Photo courtesy of thenews.com.pk Seven killed in S. Korea bus terminal fire At least seven people were killed and two dozen injured in a fire at a bus terminal near Seoul on Monday, emergency officials said.
26 May 2014
Photo courtesy of news.nom.co Two Koreas accuse each other of lying about shelling Seoul Friday accused North Korea of a "blatant lie" in claiming it had not fired shells near a South Korean warship and said Pyongyang had threatened to bombard its military vessels.
23 May 2014
Ex-South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won. ©Reuters/Antti Aimo-Koivisto Former Supreme court judge named new S. Korean premier South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday named a former Supreme Court judge as her new prime minister, as the fallout from last month's ferry disaster casts a long shadow over upcoming local elections.
22 May 2014
Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung. Photo courtesy of catholicnewsagency.com South Korean cardinal in first visit to North A South Korean cardinal visited the North on Wednesday in the first trip of its kind, an official said, ahead of a visit by Pope Francis to Seoul that Catholic authorities hope will promote peace between the neighbours.
21 May 2014

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