North Korea has been conducting a large-scale campaign to sort out disgruntled citizens amid growing public fatigue over toughened international sanctions against the impoverished state, Seoul's spy agency said Monday. During a parliamentary briefing, the National Intelligence Service pointed out that the North's international isolation has further deepened as European and Latin American states ...

Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it agreed to join US 20th Century Fox and Japan-based Panasonic Corp. to expand the ecosystem for the High Dynamic Range 10 Plus technology. The South Korean tech giant said the companies agreed to establish an alliance for the HDR 10 Plus technology. The agreement is aimed at inducing more TV producers and movie productions to join the ecosystem for the new ...

LPGA rookie phenom Park Sung-hyun has said she rode a “perfect” round to her second career victory in Canada. Park shot a bogey-free round of seven-under 64 to win the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open on Sunday in Ottawa. At 13-under overall, Park defeated fellow South Korean Lee Mi-rim by two strokes. The victory came a little over a month after Park’s monumental victory at the US Women‘s O...

Thousands of veterinarians gathered Monday in Incheon, west of Seoul, to discuss ways to enhance the health of humans, animals and the environment around the world. In a speech opening the 33rd World Veterinary Congress earlier in the day, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said, "The congress will become an opportunity for mankind to strengthen measures to cope with livestock diseases that...

South Korea on Monday issued a special warning on transactions with 20 Chinese, North Korean and other foreign entities and individuals that were put on the United States' sanctions list for helping finance the North's development of nuclear weapons. The companies and individuals under the latest transaction alert are those that were blacklisted by the US' past two sanctions lists adopted June 2...

North Korea has replaced its top envoy to Uganda, Pyongyang's state media said Monday, as the African country cut its military and security cooperation with the North last year. North Korea appointed Jong Tong-hak as its ambassador to Uganda in accordance with a decision by the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, according to the Korean Central News Agency. Last year, North Korea withdr...

Constitutional Court Justice-nominee Lee You-jung struggled Monday to quell growing controversy over her ideological orientation, pledging to strictly maintain political neutrality if appointed. Since President Moon Jae-in nominated her earlier this month, conservative parties have taken issue with her backing for a liberal candidate in a 2011 Seoul mayoral election and her inclusion on the list...

South Korean teen golf sensation Choi Hye-jin said Monday she'd like to win the top rookie award on the home tour next year. Once a hot-shot amateur, Choi turned professional last Thursday, a day after her 18th birthday. On Aug. 20, she won her last event as an amateur, the Bogner MBN Ladies Open on the Korea LPGA Tour. The victory made Choi the first amateur to win twice in one KLPGA season sin...

The top rookie in South Korean baseball this year on Monday made the provisional national team for an inaugural offseason tournament. The Korea Baseball Organization announced a 42-man roster for the Asia Professional Baseball Championship, which will take place from Nov. 16 to 19 in Tokyo. It will feature pros from South Korea, Japan and Chinese Taipei under 24 -- born on or after Jan. 1, 1993 ...

An environment for talks with North Korea will be created if Pyongyang stops additional provocations, South Korea's top diplomat said Monday, reaffirming Seoul's willingness to resume negotiations despite the communist country's continued push for advancing its missile and nuclear programs. "What is more important than anything else is that the North should stop additional provocations to create...

North Korea is ready to bury the entirety of the United States under water if the country is invaded by Americans, the North's official newspaper said Monday as the country marks national Navy Day. Celebrating the 68th anniversary of the establishment of its navy on Monday, the Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, revisited the country's launch of a submarine-launche...

The South Korean government said Monday it recovered 709.1 billion won ($633 million) of bailout funds in the second quarter, mostly used to help financial institutions hit by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The retrieval of taxpayers' money mainly derived from dividends from stake investments, the sale of shares in Woori Bank, and interest income, the Financial Services Commission said in a st...

South Korean stocks finished lower on Monday, as foreign investors cashed in recent gains due to the local currency's strength against the US dollar and a decline in Samsung affiliates, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index shed 8.21 points, or 0.35 percent, to close at 2,370.30. Trade volume was light at 224 million shares wor...

The Korea International Cooperation Agency, the nation's official development assistance agency, is investigating the allegation that a head of its branch office in a Middle Eastern country sexually harassed a female subordinate. "A female employee at the Middle Eastern office claimed that she was sexually harassed by the branch head in May and August and asked the KOICA headquarters to summon h...

A North Korean woman, who fled back to the North after living in South Korea, on Monday condemned Seoul's TV programs featuring former North Koreans for fabricating false North Korean images. The woman, known as Lim Ji-hyun in South Korea, showed up in a 30-minute video uploaded by North Korea's propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri, her third such appearance since defecting back to Pyongyang in June ...