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Hope that a Korean consortium, led by the Incheon International Airport Corp., could win the first deal to build an international airport overseas this month is rising as the government is developing a package of programs to support the deal.

JUNE 18, 2013 03:00. . President Park Geun-hye said Monday, "A recent media survey on teenagers` history awareness showed 69 percent of respondents saying South Korea invaded North Korea in Korean War," adding "Distortion of truth and history at schools is should never happen."

The President spoke to Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye yesterday evening to discuss regional security issues, building on discussions from her May visit to Washington.

Samsung plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday.

China's increasing assertiveness and Japan's sense of insecurity would further spur nationalism in Northeast Asia, hampering the region from achieving huge potential gains from mutual cooperation, a renowned foreign policy analyst said.

A vice principal at a prestigious South Korean middle school committed suicide on Sunday amid an ongoing investigation into admission-related fraud.

The fifth edition of the Chinese Film Festival got underway on Sunday and will run concurrently in Seoul and Busan until Thursday.

After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No.

The trade mission that helped launch United Airlines' nonstop Denver-Tokyo flight attained its short-term goal of creating a critical mass of people needed to make an impression in the monstrous city, but it has only begun the long-term work of maintaining enough momentum to sustain the flight.

THE Department of Tourism in Davao Region said Friday that it met with four airline companies last June 1-2 in a bid to introduce Davao City as the next destination for South Korean tourists.

The government on Sunday said it would build a polycarbonate "dam" inside Sayeon Dam in Ulsan to protect the rock faces of Bangudae, located on Daegokcheon Stream Cliff, from erosion.

South Korea is strengthening supervision of foreign exchange transactions as President Park Geun Hye broadens her country's part in a global crackdown against tax evasion .

While some kids are being sent away to summer camps in New England right now, others are on their way to the Songdowon International Children's Camp in Wonsan, North Korea.

The United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea will hold a trilateral meeting regarding the situation on the Korean Peninsula next week, State Department announced in a statement Friday.US Special Representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Glyn Davies will host the trilateral meeting with representatives from Japan and ROK in ... (more)

North Korea on Saturday made a fresh vow to build up its nuclear deterrent in the face of "threats of war" from the United States and a "policy of confrontation" from the South.

Less than an hour bus ride outside of the nondescript city of Andong in central South Korea , a little village doesn't just hold onto the past, it embodies it.

The mayor of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture has vowed to directly ask South Korea to return a Buddhist statue that he claims is the property of a temple on the island.

Filipino food is easy on those who try it for the first time. The style and cooking share elements with other cuisines such as Malaysian, Spanish, Chinese and American.

Consumers would soon have to shell out more to buy mobile phones, TV sets, cameras, laptops and other consumer electronic goods, with the sharp depreciation in the value of the rupee - which had hit a new record low on Tuesday - and experts estimating it to fall to Rs 60 in foreseeable future.

Koryo Korean BBQ opened quietly in a Glendale strip mall about three months ago in a space previously occupied by two other Korean joints.