Daegu, South Korea News

A Camp Carroll soldier has been sentenced to three years in prison for raping a South Korean woman at her home last summer.

SEOUL: Prosecutors in South Korea have arrested four over match-fixing allegations relating to the country's professional volleyball league, local media reported on Wednesday.

Olympic champion pole vaulter Steve Hooker is battling to work through "technical issues" and may miss next month's national trials and the remainder of Australia's athletics series.

South Korea's president and prime minister pledged Monday to curb school bullying after two suicides by victims sparked public concern.

South Korean sprinter Lim Hee-nam and Portuguese steeplechaser Sara Moreira both received six-month bans after failing doping tests at last year's world championships in South Korea.

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According to the Brussels-based research organization Union of International Associations, the Republic of Korea ranked 8th in the world and its capital, Seoul, ranked 5th for hosting international conferences in 2010.

The Entomological Society of America is sponsoring a competition for travel grants to the 2012 International Congress of Entomology to be held in Daegu, South Korea this summer.

OLYMPIC hero Darren Campbell has told Dai Greene to forget about times if he wants to claim gold in London this year.

KINGSTON: Usain Bolt and Veronica Campbell-Brown, winners of the 200m world titles last year in Daegu, South Korea, were named Jamaica's top sportsman and sportswoman of 2011.

SEOUL, Republic of Korea - People to People International honored three members of the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan Command during its 39th Annual International Friendship Night and award banquet at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, Jan.

Gyun Hur' s works of memory and migration at the Hudgens Center for the Arts convey a sense of wistful transience that might be best expressed by W. B. Yeats' famous phrase "Man is in love, and loves what vanishes." The new installations, videos, and mixed-media works of "In a Landscape Anew" are one outcome of the young Korean-emigre artist's year ... (more)

Come Together is a series introducing associations and clubs that expats can get involved in.

The Korean media have been paying vastly more attention to cases of bullying, violence, and suicide in schools following the shocking bullying-suicide case in Daegu recently.

Daegu is one of the best places to live in South Korea. Their skies are wide and dramatic, especially during monsoon season.

National Gugak Center's new director seeks blend of Korean music with other arts It's been almost two months since the National Gugak Center's new director and scholar Lee Tong-bok took office.