Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors is the champion of South Korean professional football this year. Jeonbuk beat Ulsan Hyundai FC 2-1 Sunday in the second leg of the K-League final series at its home Jeonju World Cup Stadium, 240 kilometers south of Seoul. Two Brazilian players, Eninho and Luiz Henrique, scored in the second-half for Jeonbuk, which won its second-ever K-League crown, following its first in...

MANILA (AFP) - Police have arrested six South Koreans suspected of running a massive, high-tech dogfighting operation where matches in the Philippines were shown online to overseas bettors, police said Saturday. About 240 pitbulls were confiscated in the raid late Friday from a secluded compound where the dogs were kept and the matches held, the local police intelligence chief said. "They had a...

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -- Brighten clouds with sea water? Spray aerosols high in the stratosphere? Paint roofs white and plant light-colored crops? How about positioning ``sun shades'' over the Earth? At a time of deep concern over global warming, a group of scientists, philosophers and legal scholars examined whether human intervention could artificially cool the Earth _ and what would happe...

Samsung Electronics Co. welcomed Saturday a U.S. court decision that turned down Apple Inc.'s request for a preliminary injunction against its mobile devices, a major victory for the Korean firm in a series of high-stakes global legal battles against the iPhone maker. The ruling, delivered by a U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, cited that Apple failed to convince that allowing sales o...

The main opposition Democratic Party on Saturday launched a committee to investigate the possible involvement of a ruling party lawmaker in the hacking of the national election watchdog's Web site. The move came after the National Police Agency said Friday it is seeking arrest warrants for a former aide to Rep. Choi Ku-sik of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) and three website administrators...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them. Amid a broad outcry, Sen. Al Franken is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the software's maker, Carrier IQ Inc. of Mountain View, ...

South Korean stocks are expected to move upward in the coming week, as an upcoming central bank meeting and a summit in Europe drive investor expectations for more actions to tackle the eurozone crisis, analysts said. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) jumped 7.86 percent, or 139.64 points, to 1,916.04 on Friday from a week earlier, as investors scooped up risky assets after...

Gold rose in New York, heading for the biggest weekly advance in five, on speculation central banks may increase holdings after South Korea bought bullion to diversify assets. The Bank of Korea, owner of the world's eighth-biggest foreign-exchange reserves, purchased 15 metric tons of gold last month, said Lee Jung, head of its investment-strategy team. Gold has climbed 24 percent this year in N...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that it's still premature to consider a trip to North Korea with its leader turning a deaf ear to international calls for democratization. On a historic trip to Myanmar apparently as part of the Barack Obama administration's efforts to reach out to despotic rulers willing to "unclench their fists," Clinton said Washington is focus...

Some 170 judges joined hands Friday to press the Supreme Court to launch a study into whether the free trade agreement with the U.S. is skewed in favor of Americans. The rare move came amid mushrooming public discontent over parliamentary approval last week of the trade pact. The deal, first signed in 2007 under the previous Roh Moo-hyun administration, drew strong protests from opposition parti...

DAPA to have open bidding for surveillance drones Acquisition agency tells Washington it cannot purchase Global Hawk drones for ‘exorbitant prices’ By Song Sang-ho South Korea’s weapons acquisition agency said on Thursday that it would carry out an open bidding process for its high-profile project to acquire surveillance drones. Defense Acquisition Program Administration also said that it has...

Chief Justice Yang Sung-bae met with the country’s top judges on Friday and discussed the mounting criticism against the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement within the judiciary. Attending chief judges of High Courts and District Courts are said to have discussed the developments surrounding the Korea-U.S. FTA and reviewed the situation related to the view that the judiciary should analyze the pact ...

Former President Roh Tae-woo is surviving on bottled oxygen as his lungs are failing, sources said. According to officials at Seoul National University Hospital, the 79-year-old has been hospitalized for nearly 70 days since Sept. 27 with symptoms of pneumonia and asthma. His symptoms have worsened and medical treatment has had little effect, they said, adding that they do not plan to administe...