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When Lee Byeon Chun looks back four years to when he helped clone the world's first dog, he confesses it was a stressful time. All of his colleagues, he says, were obsessed with the puppy -; an ...

Picture features a monument set up at Palisades Park, New Jersey, in 2010 to honor Korean women drafted for military sexual slavery during Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). / ...

Prosecutors said Friday they have discovered tens of billions of won (tens of millions of dollars) in a bank account apparently linked to the elder brother of former President Roh Moo-hyun, backing ...

The National Police Agency (NPA) on Friday alerted North Korean defectors to the dangers of financial pyramid scams touting investment in Chinese real estate. The alert was issued after several ...

Japan has completed its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite. The H-2A rocket blasted off from the space centre on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan at 1:39 am on ...

Buses in Seoul were running smoothly Friday after unionized drivers struck a last-minute wage deal with management and scrapped plans to strike. The breakthrough agreement came after marathon ...

Korea's multipurpose satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera successfully reached the earth's orbit after blasting off from a Japanese space center, the government said Friday. ...

By Kim Susan Se-jeong Her birth of was a series of misfortunes. Fleur Pellerin, 39, new French minister for digital economy, was thrown out on the streets of Seoul right after she was born on ...

5/17/2012 7:30 PM ET (RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market on Thursday finally ended the six-day losing streak in which it had given away almost 1300 points or 6.8 percent. The KOSPI now rests ...

By Yi Whan-woo The state-run educational television station said Thursday that its website had been hacked and the personal information of some 4 million users stolen. The Educational ...

By Yi Whan-woo The former head of the country's only licensed sports bookmaker allegedly maintained a slush fund of billions of won for years, prosecutors said Thursday. The Seoul Central ...

WASHINGTON/ SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, will visit South Korea next week, her first trip there in 11 years, according to a ...

Tokyo and Seoul will probably postpone concluding an accord that would let their militaries share equipment and transport roles, Japanese sources said ...

By Do Je-hae The recent scandal involving gambling Buddhist monks could not have erupted at a worse time for the proponents of spreading Korean Buddhism globally. Modern Korea is not a ...

Japan , but few cars pass through these deserted intersections. Frozen in time after being hit by the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and meltdowns in the ...

Bus drivers in Seoul are likely to abandon their vehicles from Friday after overnight negotiations between the union and management failed to produce any compromise on a pay raise and other working ...

By Yun Suh-young The police are investigating Cho Seok-joon, president of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), for allegedly favoring a company he used to work for in a bid to select a ...

Korea's national football team said Thursday it has excluded Arsenal striker Park Chu-young from its list of 26 players for next month's final Asian qualification round for the 2014 World ...

By Kim Yoo-chul Samsung Electronics said Thursday that it's been selling ultra-thin mobile memory chips based on 20-nanometer level technology to Apple, dismissing market concerns that the ...

A Guatemalan mother, who claims her child was kidnapped and later adopted by an American couple, will travel to the United States to ask a state court to get her daughter back. The ...