U.S. rights envoy cancels trip to Seoul

The south Asian country was ranked after Israel, North Korea in terms of how they are viewed globally. This year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service found that 55 percent of respondents viewed Pakistan as a negative country as compared to ...

As a child in South Korea, Ban Ki-moon wrote a letter to the UN secretary-general regarding the... Now R656.00 Goma - Two days of clashes between the Democratic Republic of Congo's army and rebel fighters near the eastern city of Goma have killed at ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will kick off a 15-day visit to East Asia with meetings Monday with South Korean higher education leaders and a reception for new students in Seoul, South Korea. Michael A.

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: CNN: North Korea fires another projectile into the sea off its east coast, South says North Korea on Monday fired a projectile into the sea off its east coast for the third day in a row, South Korean officials said, urging ...

Many European countries, along with India, Australia, Israel and South Korea, are seeking to boost economic growth and weaken their currencies. Turkey, too, is fast catching up with this trend of announcing monetary easing policies in an effort to ...

SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea slammed South Korea on Saturday for making critical comments on a Japanese official's recent visit to Pyongyang, calling it an "unprecedented precipitancy." Isao Lijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister ...

PARIS, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Ding Ning of China beat Park Seonghye of South Korea in straight sets to reach the women's singles quarterfinals of at the World Championships here on Friday. The top seed eased past the 166th-ranked Park ...

Fleur Pellerin's eyes widen when she begins talking about her first trip to South Korea last month. I was welcomed like a rock star. It was so strange, said Ms. Pellerin, France's first cabinet minister of Asian descent, as she sipped a can of Coke ...

Hankook Tire (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Cho Yang-Rai, the chairman of the world's seventh largest tire company, Hankook Tire Hankook Tire of South Korea, has joined the billionaire ranks as shares of the company increased in value. Hankook Tire was ...