The iPhone’s popularity is creating a buzz around the world with rumors of the smartphone possibly out during mid-August, according to reports. Tech media website Cnet said the rumor started with a notice posted by Gekko Ltd, a staffing firm located in the United Kingdom. Gekko said it is looking for full-time iPhone sales staff who were willing to work five days a week from Aug. 16 until Oct. ...

... would enter North Korea. “It is nonsense that Coca-Cola and KFC will open a store in Pyongyang,” he said in an interview with a Yonhap correspondent in Beijing. Chosun Daepoong Group is North Korea’s major channel for attracting foreign investment. However, other reports say that North Korean business delegations expressed interest in opening a branch in Pyongyang. The North Korean team dined a...

Senior South Korean and U.S. diplomats began a new round of negotiations here Thursday on Seoul's pursuit of expanding its peaceful nuclear technology. The two-day meeting, the third of its kind, will focus on fine-tuning the wording of a draft agreement presented in the previous round, according to officials. The existing treaty, signed in 1974, expires in March 2014. South Korea is seeking t...

The U.S. Senate plans to hold a confirmation hearing for Sung Kim, the nominee to become ambassador to South Korea, next week, a related committee announced Thursday. The hearing will be held on Thu...me the first person of Korean origin to serve as U.S. ambassador to Seoul. Kim immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s and obtained U.S. citizenship in 1980. Many expect Kim's nomination to be approved ...

South Korea's central bank on Friday revised down its 2011 economic growth outlook on weaker domestic demand and construction investment, but raised its inflation projection on high oil and food pric... uncertainty for the growth path due mainly to Greece's debt crisis, the degree of improvement in U.S. labor and housing markets, and the monetary policy in the U.S.," the central bank said in a state...

South Korea's import prices grew at the slowest clip in seven months in June as the local currency's ascent to the dollar overshadowed an on-year gain in oil prices, the central bank said Friday. In local currency terms, the country's import prices rose 10.5 percent in June from a year earlier, slowing from a 13.2 percent on-year expansion tallied in May, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK). T...

...loped another zeolite in the past that can transform methanol to gasoline up to 10 times more efficiently than existing catalysts. Exxon Mobil has expressed interest in the two zeolites made by Ryoo's team. Undisclosed South Korean petrochemical companies have also made inquiries that may lead to commercial development in the future. "There are some technical issues to resolve, mainly related wi...

...haviors,” wrote Lindsey Murtagh of the Harvard School of Public Health and David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital in Boston. “In severe instances of childhood obesity, removal from the home may be justi...d US media, and JAMA issued a statement pointing out that the piece did not reflect the institution’s view. “This commentary does not reflect policy or opinion of the American Medical Association (AM...

BEIJING (Yonhap News) – South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin requested China's cooperation for the safe return of South Korean prisoners of war (POWs) who are currently in China following their defection from North Korea where they had been held since their capture during the 1950-53 Korean War. The request came at Kim's meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping as the South Korean m...