The number of Japanese households that can watch a South Korean satellite channel specializing in Korean pop culture has exceeded 4 million, the channel said Friday, indicating its growing popularity in the neighboring country. KBS Japan said more than 4 million Japanese households can view popular South Korean TV dramas, films and music programs on a channel provided through Japan's Sky Perfect...

Apple Inc. won a one-week extension to a ban on Samsung Electronics Co. releasing its latest tablet computer in Australia. High Court Justice Dyson Heydon extended a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Dec. 9, when the court will consider Apple’s request for permission to appeal a lower court ruling that ordered the ban lifted. The Australian dispute is part of a battle between the com...

The National Assembly missed the deadline for next year's budget bill on Friday, as widely expected, with the protracted standoff between rival parties continuing following the ruling party-led parliament's ratification of the free trade deal with the U.S. late last month. South Korean law obliges the unicameral parliament to pass the annual budget bill by Dec. 2 to allow 30 days of preparation ...

Park Geun-hye, the leading presidential contender for the ruling Grand National Party (GNP), said Thursday that her party should select competitive candidates for next year's parliamentary elections through a fair and transparent nomination system. "I basically think a couple of powerful figures should not pick candidates for the general elections," Park said during an interview with news Y, the...

An opposition lawmaker, who detonated a tear gas bomb in the National Assembly's main chamber in protest at the free trade agreement with the U.S., will be sent before a parliamentary ethics committee over his use of violence during a vote, a conservative minor lawmaker said Thursday. The call for disciplinary action on Rep. Kim Sun-dong of the minor progressive Democratic Labor Party (DLP) came...

BEIJING (AP) _ One person has died and several others have been injured in an explosion at a bank in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. A city fire and rescue official says the explosion occurred early Thursday evening outside a branch of state-owned China Construction Bank. The official says that there was no resulting fire and that the cause of the explosion is unknown. Like many Chinese bure...

Hana Financial Group has reached an agreement with Lone Star Funds on lowering the takeover price for Korea Exchange Bank, Dow Jones Newswires reported Thursday. An anonymous source was quoted by the U.S.-based news provider as saying that “Hana Financial agreed to a deal with Lone Star Funds to buy a 51.02 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank for 3.916 trillion won ($3.48 billion), 11 percent l...

7,656 Koreans reported HIV positive as of 2010 It has been a long time since health experts first declared that AIDS is not transmittable through everyday human interaction or an automatic death sentence. But public perception is still behind scientific and medical knowledge. People infected with HIV are refused entry into the country at immigration while many hide their health status out of fe...

BEIJING (AFP) ― A man died and his mother fell into a coma after consuming a product made by U.S. giant Coca-Cola, prompting a city in northeast China to recall the drink, government and state media said Wednesday. Food scandals occur regularly in China, with recent cases involving recycled cooking oil, contaminated eggs and carcinogenic mushrooms. Identified only by his surname Chu, the man di...