SEOUL (AFP) - The South Korean capital Seoul has installed anti-suicide monitoring devices on bridges over the city’s Han river after 196 people jumped to their deaths last year, officials said on Thursday.The new initiative - in a country with the highest suicide rate among leading developed ...

SEOUL - South Korean president-elect Park Geun-Hye met Friday with the envoy of Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as Seoul and Tokyo sought a new start to a relationship dogged by bitter historical disputes. Park called for future-oriented “reconciliation and cooperation” as ...

Prime Minister Yuusuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed their desire to intensify the bilateral dialogue process for further engagements as they had an informal chat here, their second in two days at the Nuclear Security Summit. Singh and Gilani had an ...

SEOUL - North Korea said on Friday it will launch a long-range rocket carrying a “working” satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth next month, sparking condemnation from the United States and others that it was in breach of a U.N. resolution.U.S. Secretary ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Unseeded Galina Voskoboeva reached her first WTA final after she battled back in the second set to record a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Slovakia's fifth seed Polona Hercog in the Hansol Korea Open Saturday. Kazakh Voskoboeva takes on Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez on Sunday (today) in Seoul ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Red-hot Kim Kyung-Tae claimed a second GS Caltex Maekyung Open crown Sunday on home soil after carding a final-round six-under-par 66 to complete a dominant eight-shot victory in Seoul. After finishing runner-up last year, the South Korean and 2007 champion posted the biggest winning ...

LAHORE - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, inaugurated its first ever service to South Korea, from Abu Dhabi to Seoul's lncheon International Airport. Seoul has become Etihad's 65th destination on the network in its seven years of operations, says a press ...

KARACHI - India's Gaurev Ghei withdrew from GS Caltex Maekyung Open in Seoul (South Korea) Thursday After 10 holes due to wrist injury and his compatriot Anirban Lahiri who was running high temperature also pulled out of the competition, according to information received here. Korea's Kim Jong-duk ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Another bird flu case was found in the South Korean capital Sunday, the Agriculture Ministry said, while it was reported an outbreak in the country's second largest city was caused by the H5N1 strain. More than 8,000 ducks and chickens were immediately culled at an illegally-run ...