North Korea lambasted South Korean President Park Geun-hye Monday for her remarks made in China that Pyongyang should give up its nuclear weapons. In a statement issued in the name of an unidentified spokesman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), the North warned such remarks "constitute unacceptable provocations against the country's dignity." Park on Saturday calle...

Personal information from roughly 100,000 people was leaked in a recent hacking attack on the presidential office, a presidential official said Sunday, in the first confirmed data leakage involving the top South Korean office. The official said the compromised information includes names, birth dates, identification numbers and offline addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, which are the onli...

The government plans to give certified foreign entrepreneurs looking to set up a company in Korea wider leeway to receive a visa, as part of efforts to stimulate foreign investment, the Justice Ministry said on Sunday. According to the proposed revision to the enforcement decree of the Immigration Control Act, an “entrepreneurship visa” will be granted as part of the corporate investment visa (D...

More women and older workers are taking up irregular jobs in South Korea, showing that the “socially weaker” group remains less protected in the employment market, a report showed Sunday. Of all irregular workers, 53.8 percent were women as of March this year, a 5.2 percentage point rise from 48.6 percent in 2007, the Korea Employment Information Service said. The percentage of women holding re...

Moon Jae-in, an opposition party lawmaker and former chief secretary to late President Roh Moo-hyun, vowed Sunday to leave politics if Roh’s controversial remark on the inter-Korean sea border during the 2007 inter-Korean summit is proven to be true. “The confusion and the division in the public opinion should be ended through disclosing the records (kept) in the National Archives of Korea,” Rep...

Japan appears further estranged from South Korea and China after the latter agreed last week to deepen their cooperation for peninsular denuclearization and strategic partnership in the economy, security and other areas. Ahead of the upper-house elections later this month, nationalist Japanese politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have enraged Seoul and Beijing with their recent remark...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― North Korea is the 23rd-most failed state in the world in a U.S. index gauging states’ management of social, economic and political affairs, a foreign affairs magazine said. The Failed States Index, compiled annually since 2005 by U.S. think tank Fund for Peace and the magazine Foreign Policy, ranked the North 23rd out of a total of 178 nations. The index examines 12 ...

The Irish Embassy in Korea announced on Wednesday that following the embassy’s Twitter account @Irishembkorea is a good way to keep up to date with events at Ireland’s diplomatic mission here, as well as the expatriate Irish community in Korea. Twitter followers of the Irish Embassy in Korea “will get updates and links from a range of things we think might interest you, with a particular focus o...