North Korea has signalled its willingness
to break off its uranium enrichment programme in exchange for food
aid from the United States, dpa quoted South Korean media as reporting Saturday.
The two sides "reached the agreement based on North (...)
South Korea imposed fresh sanctions Friday on Iran due to its suspected nuclear weapons program, limiting financial deals with 99 Iranian groups and six individuals from the Middle Eastern country, as Yonhap reported.
The entities join 102 groups (...)
A South Korean Coast Guard commando was stabbed to death Monday while raiding a Chinese ship suspected of illegal
fishing in the Yellow Sea, a coast guard spokesman said.
The 41-year-old was reportedly attacked by a Chinese sailor with shards of (...)
Shares tumbled Friday on the Seoul stock
exchange on mounting doubts over the eurozone's ability to tackle its
debt crisis, according to dpa.
The benchmark Kospi index shed 37.64 points, or 2 per cent, to
close at 1,874.75. Declining issues (...)
South Korean police said they have arrested six crematory workers on suspicion of stealing and selling melted gold teeth from cremated bodies, according to AP.
Police said in a statement Thursday that workers at five crematoriums were suspected of (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- A South Korean official will help monitor the distribution of humanitarian aid to North Korean children for the first time in three years, AP cited the Seoul government as saying on Friday.
He is the first (...)
AlHijjah 26, 1432, Nov 22, 2011, SPA - South Korea's parliament ratified a free trade deal with the United States on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
South Korean lawmakers voted 151 to 7 in favor of ratifying the landmark trade agreement in (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Share prices fell Friday on the Seoul stock exchange
following a decline in the US market, as investors' fears deepened
that the eurozone debt crisis could spread further, according to dpa.
The benchmark (...)
AlHijjah 19, 1432, Nov 15, 2011, SPA - South Korea's President made a rare trip to parliament on Tuesday to urge legislators to vote through a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
The FTA, which some studies say could boost the $67 (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Lim Sung-nam, left for Austria Sunday to meet with the U.S. envoy on North Korea to discuss reopening talks, according to UPI.
Negotiations between the two Koreas, the (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - Two South Korean mountain climbers have died in the Himalayas after falling from a cliff.
Korean Alpine Federation official Lee Ui-jae said Saturday that the climbers fell while trying to summit Cholatse in (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Eight South Korean seamen were reported missing on Saturday after their fishing boat collided with a cargo ship near the country's western coast.
The small fishing boat, carrying nine crew members, sank in (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA - The Prime Minister of the Republic of South Korea Kim Hwang Sik has expressed his condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- A group of 21 North Koreans, including children, were rescued after being found adrift on a boat in waters off South Korea's western coast and are seeking asylum, a South Korean coast guard official said on (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Shares jumped Friday on the Seoul stock exchange as
investor sentiment was lifted by the avoidance of a referendum in
Greece for a European bailout and an unexpected interest rate cut by
the European Central (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta met Thursday with top South Korean leaders to offer personal reassurances of American support and security cooperation against the threat of attack by North Korea, according (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1432, Oct 26, 2011, SPA -- On behalf of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and people, South Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung-hwan extended condolences on the death of late Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA - South Korea and Indonesia agreed to significantly boost their economic ties, a move that will include the signing of a free trade deal at an early date, the Seoul government said Monday.
The countries have (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA -- Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar has sent a written message to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
The message dealt with issues of common interest in addition to means of enhancing bilateral (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA -- South Korean President Lee Myung Bak is to visit Russia next week, his office announced Monday, for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
At the meeting on November 1, Lee and Medvedev are expected to (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1432, Oct 23, 2011, SPA -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Pyongyang Sunday for a three-day visit that coincides with a US-North Korean meeting - the second in three months - set to start Monday in Geneva, dpa reported.
Li (...)
AlQa'dah 23, 1432, Oct 21, 2011, SPA -- South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik met with his French counterpart Francois Fillon on Friday and agreed to support expanded cooperation between corporations, especially small- and medium-sized ones, (...)
AlQa'dah 22, 1432, Oct 20, 2011, SPA -- South Korean President Lee Myung Bak received here today visiting Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi.
During the audience, the Minister conveyed the greetings of the (...)
AlQa'dah 21, 1432, Oct 19, 2011, SPA - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda held a summit meeting here today.
During the meeting, the two leaders decided to move forwards on economic cooperation.
Lee said (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1432, Oct 11, 2011, SPA - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak left for Washington Tuesday to meet US President Barack Obama, after asking parliament to ratify a free trade pact between the two allies.
"This visit will centre on strong (...)
