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Veteran South Korean actress Kim Hye-ja was named the best foreign actress by China's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival for her role in the mystery thriller "Mother," the film's local producer said Friday and Yonhap News reported.

Some South Koreans think their nation has an image problem. While it ranks as one of the world's top economies, international surveys show that South Korea's brand value - how others perceive the country - is low.

Actor Cho Han-sun will be taking a trip down the aisle on Jan. 9. In a press conference at the Imperial Palace Hotel on Monday regarding his new wedding plans, Cho revealed that his future bride is now 13 weeks pregnant.

Nearly 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy issued a clarion call to the people of America, challenging them to put the interests of the country - and indeed the world - ahead of their own.

The first of the two hurdles have been overcome for the upcoming Asean-US summit meeting.

A Japanese destroyer that collided with a South Korean container ship Tuesday night in the Kammon Strait in western Japan tried to stop before the crash, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said Wednesday.

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'Since green growth is not an option but an obligation, for industrialized nations, I highly appreciate Korea's green growth strategy.

International experts Tuesday debated ways to measure the world's well-being, in line with G20 calls for statisticians to take into account people's happiness and not just their economic output.

Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said yesterday he was optimistic about the future direction of the Korean economy.

A Japanese navy destroyer and a South Korean container ship collided Tuesday off southern Japan, sparking fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, officials said.

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A ceremony yesterday celebrates the 64th United Nations Day at the U.N. Memorial Park in Busan, a day ahead of the world body's anniversary.

After years of listening to people in his hometown ask when he's going to perform with the Evansville Philharmonic again, Nino P. Cocchiarella finally has an answer.

Spending a few days in a capital, taking snapshots in front of its buildings and statues does not exactly mean one can say they have seen a country.

More Pusan news BUSAN, South Korea -- Cultural policymakers from across Asia assembled at the Asian Film Policy Forum on Tuesday to present their strategies to promote and develop film industries in their countries.

While he is a visiting scholar at MU, Chuljin Ko is working to improve his English communication skills for when he returns to his job with the Busan City government in South Korea.

The North Korean Stalinist regime has sponsored a website that is promoting tourism to its nation, and encouraging foreign companies to invest in the North.

In a ceremony streamed over the Web, Unification Church officials say 40,000 people recited vows around the world as the controversial minister stood before an estimated 7,500 couples in South Korea.

Two production outfits, one based in Korea and another in the United States, have expressed interest in making films in the Philippines.