Chris Evans -  Anna Broinowski, an Australian documentary-maker, was given unprecedented access to some of North Korea's top secrets but, for once, it wasn't to do with politics or nuclear weapons. Instead, she went to uncover the fascinating, if somewhat unusual, world of North Korean cinema, ...

SEOUL : A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his tenth-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said Thursday. The 40-year-old man jumped from the flat in the southern port of Busan on Wednesday evening and hit ...

KATHMANDU - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world’s highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday. “Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday,” an official with ...

SEOUL - When romantic actress Lee Si-young swapped her glamorous roles in South Korean dramas for boxing gloves in a bid to win an Olympic medal, her victories triggered a storm of protest that has marred her unexpected success in the ring.The 31-year-old, better known for her roles in TV shows ...

PAJU, South Korea South Korea on Friday withdrew its last remaining workers from a joint industrial zone in North Korea at risk of permanent closure due to soaring military tensions.It is the first time that Seoul has pulled out all its workers from the flagship project since it was opened in 2004, ...

WASHINGTON: An international team of surgeons has successfully given a South Korean-Canadian toddler a life-saving windpipe transplant made from plastic fibers and some of her own stem cells. Hannah Warren, 2, was born without a trachea and is now the youngest person to ever receive a ...

  PAJU, South Korea : South Korea was due Monday to pull out its last workers from a joint factory zone in North Korea - a rare symbol of cross-border cooperation now crippled by a tense military stand-off. The move raises the prospect of the permanent closure of theKaesongcomplex, the last ...

PAJU, South Korea Dozens of South Korean workers returned from a jointly run factory park in North Korea on Saturday as part of an evacuation of the flagship project following months of military tensions.The move plunges into doubt the future of the Kaesong complex - once a rare symbol of ...

paul gottinger - Things seemed to have calmed on the Korean peninsula for now.  This despite the fact that the U.S. and South Korea are continuing their outrageously provocative Foal Eagle “war games” through April 30.  The Foal Eagle is one of the largest and longest military ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Taekwondo Federation (PTF) secretary Lt Col Waseem Ahmed Janjua has done wonders for the country and will create history by inviting 20 Korean international Taekwondo players who will demonstrate skills on May 14 at Liaquat Gymnasium, Pakistan Sports Complex. In an exclusive ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw a live fire military drill using drones and cruise missile interceptors, state media said Wednesday, amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim had personally guided the exercise ...

NEW DELHI - A South Korean student holidaying on her own in India was allegedly drugged and raped by the son of a hotel owner as she visited a tiger reserve in central India, police said on Friday. The 23-year-old college student has filed a police case saying she was raped on January 14 after ...

President Asif Ali Zardari held talks with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-Bak on Tuesday after his arrival in the South Korean capital on Monday on a three-day official visit.The two sides held talks in a bid to expand bilateral cooperation and trade ties.Minister of State for Foreign ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)‘Gangnam Style,’ the catchy Korean song by rapper Psy, may have danced its way into the American charts but the Korean pop industry isn’t horsing around when it comes to capitalising on the singer’s success. With “Gangnam Style” topping the ...

KARACHI - A sumptuous Korean Food Festival was held at Defense Country and Golf Club on Tuesday.The Consulate General of the Republic of Korea hosted Korean Food Festival 2012 with two renowned chefs from Korea who had especially arrived for the event, Chef Sang-chul Han, (Master in Food Service) ...

KARACHI - The Consulate General of the Republic of Korea will host “Korean Food Festival 2012” on November 22 (tomorrow), at 7:00pm at Ocean View Lawn, Defence Country and Golf Club, Karachi.Chef Sang-Chul Han (Master in Food Service) and Chef Moo-Sub Kim already arrived to cook Korean ...

KARACHI –Korea has great regard for Pakistan and keenly looks forward to further expansion of relations. This was said by the Consul General of the Republic of Korea, Mr In Ki Lee last evening at a reception hosted by him to celebrate the National Day of Korea.Mr Lee said that Pakistan was ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Korea has reviewed implementation of projects being executed through Korean assistance worth around $300 million in Pakistan.Dr Waqar Masood Khan, Secretary, EAD has chaired the meeting, which was attended by Choong joo Choi, Ambassador of Republic of Korea and his team. ...

LAHORE – The Korean audiologist and President Material Solution Technology (MST) Daniel Lee arrived in Lahore on Monday night, says a press release. During his four days stay, he would operate five hearing patients for cochlear implant at a local hospital at DHA. MD Hearing Clinic and ...

LAHORE – The world renowned audiologist Dr Daniel Lee will arrive on a three day visit in Pakistan on Tuesday (today). He is Chairman Material Solution Technology, Korea and renowned for his long services for hearing rehabilitation and cochlear implant. Rana Abdullah Masood, MD Hearing Clinic ...

SEOUL -  If you are thirty-plus and a woman with a masters degree in South Korea, you may need the help of a matchmaker to find love — and your worried mother may even end up doing the legwork for you.As women in this rich Asian country have become better educated, with five times as ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) - North and South Korea said Friday they wanted to revive six-nation efforts aimed at curbing DPRK's atomic programme, after their envoys held unexpected and rare talks in Indonesia. The meeting between S. Korean nuclear envoy Wi Sung-Lac and his counterpart from the ...

SEOUL (AFP) - A sweeping free trade agreement with the United States looks set for a rough ride through the South Korean legislature after opposition parties branded it a humiliating and treacherous deal. But the ruling Grand National Party with a majority 172 seats in the 299-seat parliament ...

LONDON (AFP) - Gunfire between the two Koreas raised alarm on global markets already focused on Tuesday on widening debt strains and pressure for new direction in the eurozone three weeks before an EU summit. Shelling between North and South Korea, and the Irish-eurozone debt crisis, pushed up the ...

BELGRADE (AFP) - South Koreas Yura Corporation began construction work on a new factory in the southern Serbian town of Nis that will produce electrical car parts, officials said. The Yura Corporation, which counts carmakers Hyundai and Kia among its biggest clients, will invest some 15 million ...

ISLAMABAD A South Korean national residing in the Federal Capital deprived a middle-class Pakistani national of Rs 0.1 million in the name of obtaining a Korean visa for him. According to details, Korean national Mr Lee got Rs 0.1 million from a Pakistan citizen namely Shamasur Rehman and assured ...

KARACHI - Samsung Friday announced a long-term plan to invest 23.3 trillion Korean Won (Korean currency) through 2020 in new businesses in the environmental and healthcare industries. Five major new areas of investment outlined include solar cells, rechargeable cells for hybrid electric vehicles, ...

SIALKOT (APP)- Pakistans Ambassador to Korea Murad Ali has said that strenuous efforts were being made for enhancing the volume of bilateral trade between Pakistan and Korea. In an interview with APP here Tuesday at SCCI, he stressed upon the Pakistani exporters and manufacturers to make frequent ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration signaled Sunday it was seeking a way to interdict, possibly with Chinas help, North Korean sea and air shipments carrying weapons or nuclear technology, a leading American newspaper reported Monday. Citing US officials, the newspaper said the administration was ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea decided to revise its constitution at a parliamentary meeting Thursday attended by leader Kim Jong-Il, his first appearance at a major public event since a reported stroke last August. The inaugural meeting of the new Supreme Peoples Assembly (SPA) also re-elected Kim to ...