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Kim Yeong-cheol, former deputy secretary-general for Prime Minister Han Seung-soo, was found dead at his house yesterday in an apparent suicide.

HONG KONG: Central banks in Asia followed in the steps of the United States and Europe Thursday, cutting key interest rates in a bid to bring calm to panicked global markets and prompting a cautious rebound.

Seoul - South Korean prosecutors said on Tuesday they have arrested a florist for pruning his rivals' business by clicking repeatedly on their online advertisements.

The city of light has an unfortunate blight: the locals' reputation for rudeness.

PARIS -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globe-trotting French author of books exploring indigenous and nomadic cultures in Latin America, Africa and Asia, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in literature.

Police are blaming homophobia for the death of South Korean actor Kim Ji-hoo . Songpa Police Station confirmed the 23-year-old hung himself at his home in Jamsil, southern Seoul, Monday.

The United States and North Korea have agreed on a compromise to get the communist nation to resume dismantling its nuclear program, a news report said Friday.

Japan's Nikkei index has fallen more than 10 percent in early trade following massive losses on Wall Street.

China, South Korea, Japan and ASEAN countries may speed up the creation of an $80 billion fund to safeguard regional financial stability, a move that reflects increasing concern about US and global financial ...

Financial crisis talk...O.J. guilty...Kim Jong Il appears PARIS European leaders have opened a summit in Paris on the financial crisis.

Commendable 2006 Korean take on the 'mutant monster' film genre, with a strong dark-comedy twist.

The South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country's Reunification released a statement on Sept.

At one time, Dongbu HiTek hoped to pose a serious threat to the leading-edge silicon foundries in Singapore and Taiwan.

Asian and Pacific stock markets pushed lower Monday after having the weekend to digest Friday's passage of a $700 billion bank bailout plan in the United States.

She was more than South Korea's Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie. For nearly 20 years, Choi Jin Sil has been the country's cinematic sweetheart and as close to a "national" actress as possible.

Controversy over alleged bribery surrounding the recently elected chief of the Seoul education office reached the boiling point yesterday.

North Korea fired short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military exercise, a South Korean defence ministry official said on Wednesday.

South Korea will purchase nearly half of U.S. munitions stockpiled in the country with over 271 billion won , the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

How Samsung Electronics made the transition from a consumer electronics dwarf to a global brand is a well-told story.

NOT TO WORRY: South Korea s minister of foreign affairs said the government could handle the burden, but called for checking into the currency s fluctuation AFP , SEOUL Wednesday, Oct 08, 2008, Page 10 South ...