South Korea
May 18, 2013
The United States and Japan have reduced the alert levels for their destroyers in a further sign that the military threat from North Korea is ebbing away.
May 18, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on May 18, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown.
May 17, 2013
Buoyed by strong public support for his economic policies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues to put top priority on shoring up the nation’s economy to assure his party's...
May 17, 2013
Advantest Corp. announced May 17 that its new factory in Cheonan, South Korea, has been completed.
May 15, 2013
Outgoing South Korean Ambassador Shin Kak-soo severely criticized recent comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto about the necessity of having "comfort women" who were forced...
May 14, 2013
SHIZUOKA--Teenage pen pals a half century ago, a South Korean man and a Japanese woman never forgot each other and their postal friendship that developed at a time their two...
May 14, 2013
Confectionery Ezaki Glico Co. said May 14 it plans to start sales of Pocky chocolate-coated pretzel stick products in South Korea in early June.
May 14, 2013
South Korea, experiencing a rapidly declining birthrate and aging population, has in recent years adopted proactive policies to open its doors to foreigners through marriage...
May 13, 2013
SEOUL--Fresh off her visit to the United States, new South Korean President Park Geun-hye is making plans to visit China around the end of June, sources said, in an apparent...
May 13, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection...
May 11, 2013
The wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received a flood of criticism on her Facebook page after posting a message about attending a South Korean musical.
May 11, 2013
ANSAN, South Korea--In the ethnic restaurant district here, signs written in Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese and Indonesian line the streets, and banks post exchange rates for...
May 10, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--President Park Geun-hye's office said May 10 that she has fired her chief spokesman after a "disgraceful incident" during Park's trip to the United States.
May 10, 2013
Government officials thought they had found a way to quell the international criticism that erupted after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested that Japan’s wartime actions...
May 10, 2013
SEOUL—Calm responses and increased private-sector exchanges are needed to avoid conflict and repair Japan’s worsening relations with China and South Korea, participants at...
May 09, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea's central bank on May 9 cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven months, joining government efforts to boost the export-reliant economy as ...
May 09, 2013
With Japan's relations with China and South Korea highly strained by their respective territorial disputes and history issues, experts and researchers from the private sectors...
May 08, 2013
WASHINGTON--South Korean President Park Geun-hye on May 7 told U.S. President Barack Obama that Japan needs to have a correct perception of history in a rare reference to...
May 08, 2013
Japanese overwhelmingly prefer South Korea to China, but South Koreans favor China by an almost equally wide margin over Japan, according to a joint poll by private Japanese...
May 08, 2013
Japan, China and South Korea agreed to beef up cooperation and establish a forum for strategic dialogue to combat air pollution plaguing China during the Tripartite Environment ...