U.S. investor Warren Buffett will arrive in South Korea Sunday on a trip that includes a meeting with President Lee Myung-bak. The chairman and CEO of U.S. conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway will arrive in Daegu, a city located some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to attend the groundbreaking ceremony on Monday of a company owned and directed by Berkshire Hathaway. Daegu-Tech, a metal-cutter ma...

Ninety-seven of the 102 Korean nationals who were reported missing in Japan's Iwate prefecture have been confirmed alive, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday. However, the fate of the remaining five Koreans in Iwate and 90 others in Sendai has yet to be confirmed, a ministry official said. Meanwhile, South Korea has sent 100 tons of bottled water and six thousand blankets in emergency aid fo...

WASHINGTON -- South Korea's Kolon Industries Inc. has won a U.S. appeals court decision obliging a lower court to examine DuPont's alleged monopolization of the U.S. market for para-aramid fibers used for high temperature-resisting goods. "Whether Kolon's proffered relevant geographic market definition will hold up upon a fact-intensive inquiry remains to be seen," the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

...low Sea border with North Korea, killing 46 of its 104 sailors. The cause of the South Korean Navy's nightmarish experience, which severely stunned and saddened people across the world, had initially...edoing the 1,200-ton corvette, claiming 46 lives. They were on a routine patrol mission. The North's attack, one of the worst disasters for the South's military since the end of the 1950-53 Korean Wa...

South Korea will attend a U.N. meeting to be held in New York next week to discuss counter-measures against piracy off the coast of Somalia, the foreign ministry said Saturday. "The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia" will be attended by 150 delegates from 50 countries and 10 international organizations, the ministry said in a statement. (Yonhap News)

... areas -- disaster management and nuclear safety -- at a summit of top leaders set for later this year. The one-day meeting in the ancient city of Kyoto was meant to lay the groundwork for this year's summit of the three countries and discuss North Korea, regional issues and other matters of cooperation. But the gathering, the fifth since 2007, was overshadowed by last week's massive quake and tsunami. By official count, more than 15,000 people have been confirmed dead or missing, and the toll is expected to climb. Japan has also been struggling to bring a damaged nucle...

...death of a noted South Korean industrialist who pioneered cross-border economic projects, the North's media said Saturday. Chung Ju-yung, the then chairman of Hyundai Group, initiated a series of maj...say when and how the North Korean leader's message was conveyed to the Chung family in Seoul. Chung's eldest son, Chung Mong-koo, heads the nation's largest automaker, Hyundai Motor Co. (Yonhap News)

...outside polling centers on Saturday to cast their ballots on a package of constitutional amendments sponsored by the ruling military. The nationwide referendum is the first major test of the country's transition to democracy after a popular uprising overthrew President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule on Feb. 11. Voters were being asked o cast ballots to say 'yes' or 'no' to the entire package of nine changes. A ``yes'' vote would allow parliamentary and presidential election...

...f California, Los Angeles, said Friday night that she is leaving the school, despite the university's decision not to discipline her. In a statement to the Daily Bruin campus newspaper, Alexandra Wal... exercise of free speech, not hate speech, and it didn't violate the student code of conduct. UCLA's vice chancellor for student affairs, Janina Montero, said in a statement that campus officials wer...

...ency workers racing to cool dangerously overheated uranium fuel scrambled Saturday to connect Japan's crippled reactors to a new power line, with electricians fighting tsunami-shattered equipment to r...ed pods onto aircraft to measure radiation aloft. Two tests conducted Thursday gave readings that U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman said reinforced the U.S. recommendation that people sta...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top automaker, recalled 190,000 vehicles sold in the U.S. market on airbag-related defects, a U.S. government agency said on Saturday. According to the Web site for the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Hyundai issued an recall of about 190,000 Elantra sedans sold between 2006 and 2008 in the U.S. to repair a defect in airbag sensors. ...

...reported, according to the Taiwanese government. The quake shook the northeastern county of Yilan at 5:56 a.m. with the epicenter located in coastal waters about 26 kilometers south of Yilan, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said. The tremor only lasted for 0.02 second, it said. Other parts of Taiwan where slight shakes were detected include Hualien County, Nantou County, New Taipei City, Taoyua...