North Korea will send a delegation to this week’s annual security conference in China, organizers said Sunday, amid fresh tensions along the North’s disputed western sea border with South Korea. The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue will bring together government officials, military officers, and experts from the United States, China, Japan, Russia, South and North Korea in the eastern Chinese...

Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party is going into the presidential battle with a double-edged sword ― the political legacy of her father, former President Park Chung-hee. It was this conspicuous family background which threw the spotlight on Park when she first entered politics as a 47-year-old novice lawmaker of the then Grand National Party in 1998. The connection with the controve...

The Embassy of Ukraine in Korea held a reception to celebrate 21 years of independence and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Ukraine at Shilla Hotel, Thursday. Ukrainian Ambassador to Korea Vasyl Marmazov highlighted the fast pace of bilateral relations between his country and Korea, and the ever growing affinity between the peoples of Korea and ...

Central America encouraged Korea to launch negotiations for a free trade pact with its regional grouping, and pointed to the first half of next year as a target date at a reception on Wednesday celebrating the region’s collective Independence Day. Four of the five Central American nations that observe their independence day on the same date encouraged Korea to act on tying their nations closer w...

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy launched the Nano-convergence Foundation on Tuesday. The foundation, led by former chief of Korea Institute of Science and Technology’s Institute for Multidisciplinary Convergence of Materials Park Jong-ku, will oversee the nano-convergence 2020 program. The foundation’s responsibilities will include plannin...

A detention warrant for the elder brother of South Korea's renowned conductor Chung Myung-whun was sought by prosecutors on suspicion of embezzlement on Sunday. Prosecutors at Incheon District Prosecutors' Office said the 70-year-old brother is suspected of pocketing billions of won from 14 billion won in subsidies for a joint project with the Incheon metropolitan government called "Incheon & Ar...

Prosecutors said Sunday they have indicted two owners of South Korea's largest hostess bar on charges of sex trafficking, tax evasion and other illegal activities. The two brothers, identified only by their surname Kim, are suspected of earning more than 6.1 billion won (US$5.4 million) by running a room salon in Seoul and arranging acts of prostitution more than 88,000 times between July 2010 a...

People with psychopathic tendencies -- callousness, manipulation and anti-social behaviors -- have an impaired sense of smell, Australian researchers say. Mehmet Mahmut and Richard Stevenson of Macquarie University in Australia said studies showed people with psychopathic traits have impaired functioning in the front part of the brain -- the area largely responsible for functions such as plannin...