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The vice foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea and the United States (U.S) urged China on Thursday (April 16) to adhere to international law and cease its development of island strips in the South China Sea for the apparent purpose of establishing its footprint in the region. “What, I think we all agree on, is the need to pursue any claims that countries have with strict adherence and respect for the rule of law, for […]
SOUTH Koreans mourning the death of their teenage children in the country’s worst sea disaster in 44 years sailed on Wednesday (April 15) to the spot where the 6,800-tonne ferry remains under water, to mark a year since the sinking that killed more than 300 people. A ship carrying about 200 family members made the hour-long trip to the site of the sinking, where they threw white chrysanthemums into the sea, before returning to the […]
The United States (US) ambassador to South Korea is already in a stable condition after being attacked by a South Korean with a fruit knife in Seoul during a breakfast forum (Reuters) –U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was slashed in the face by a Korean assailant at a breakfast forum in the capital early on Thursday (March 5), police and a witness said, but was not seriously wounded. Lippert, 42, was bleeding from […]
By Rowena dela Fuente (Eagle News Service) BUSAN, South Korea, Dec. 12 (ENS) — South Korea underscored its continuing official development assistance (ODA) to the Philippines, as it vowed to provide ODA loans for more development projects in the provinces. The position was made by South Korean President Park Geun-Hye during her bilateral meeting with President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, at the sidelines of the 25th Commemorative Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nation […]
By Rowena dela Fuente (Eagle News Service) Busan, South Korea, Dec. 11 (ENS) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today pledged her country’s commitment to help the Philippines recover from the devastation brought about by Typhoon Ruby which hit Eastern Visayas, Southern Luzon and some Mindanao provinces. During the bilateral meeting between President Aquino and President Park today (Dec. 11), the South Korean leader expressed her sympathies and condolences to the families affected by Typhoon Ruby. […]
(Reuters) – A South Korean court is set to rule on whether the captain of a ferry that capsized killing more than 300 people, most of them children on a school trip, should be put to death for culpable homicide in a case that triggered widespread grief and outrage. A three-judge panel in the southern city of Gwangju will hand down verdicts and sentencing on Tuesday in the trial of captain Lee Joon-seok, 68, as […]
The Secretary of Department of Labor and Employment asked Philippine Overseas Employment Administration to take steps regarding overstaying overseas Filipino workers in South Korea.
Dubai is well known as a city that’s transformed its landscape with the world’s tallest building, the largest airport as well as the biggest shopping mall. Now, it’s achieved another world first with an extraordinary feat of construction, this time for the energy sector. Clem Orjaliza reports.
As a sign of protest, several South Koreans along with North Korean defectors released 10, 000 chocolate pies across the border.
SEOUL Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:35pm EDT (Reuters) – South Korea’s forensic agency said on Friday it was impossible to determine the cause of death of a businessman linked to a ferry that capsized and killed more than 300 people in April. An autopsy and DNA tests were conducted on the badly decomposed body of Yoo Byung-un and there was no evidence to believe he was poisoned, forensic agency head Seo Joong-seok told a news […]
SEOUL Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:48pm EDT (Reuters) – South Korean police said on Tuesday that a body found last month in the south of the country was that of a fugitive businessman who headed the family that owned the operator of a ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 300 people. Police said a badly decomposed body found on June 12 had been identified by DNA evidence as well as fingerprints as that […]
China and South Korea declared their firm opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.
