Provides the latest RSS feeds for South Korea News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page North Korea Times .com http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/cat/3f5c98640a497b43/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:18:08 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:18:08 -0400 30 Skal International (SI) National President for Thailand, Mr. Andrew J. Wood, recently visited Seoul and took the opportunity to meet executives of SI Korea. South Korea successfully hosted the Skal Asian Area Congress in 2009 and the Skal World Congress in 2012. South Korea has 2 Skal Clubs - Incheon and Seoul. Skal International will hold its 74th World Congress in New York this year from ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215308581/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:51:35 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215308581/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Australia, Iran and South Korea secured their places at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the last round of AFC qualifying on Tuesday. Iran secured their fourth finals appearance thanks to a 1-0 win over South Korea in Ulsan. Ahead of the game, each team knew a win would secure their place in Brazil, with Uzbekistan hoping to overtake the losers. With the Koreans going into the game a point clear, a ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215308369/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:10 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215308369/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 K League all-star game to take place in Seoul . JUNE 15, 2013 04:23. ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215306104/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:20:42 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215306104/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 The ceremony for the 751ft long ultra deepwater asset - now known as Bolette Dolphin - took place at the Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, where it is currently being ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294860/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:53:14 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294860/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Russia, South Korea and Singapore signed a cooperation deal on developing nanotechnology Thursday.A memorandum of understanding signed Thursday on the sidelines of the 2011 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum broadens investment in the Asia Nanotechnology Fund, which was set up last September by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), the Singaporean Economic Development ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294444/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:13 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294444/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Personal information on some 35 million users of Nate and Cyworld, a portal site and a web community site operated by SK Communications in South Korea, was hacked by outside sources, local media reported Thursday.SK Communications, a unit of the country's conglomerate SK Group, said on Thursday that it suffered a leakage of users' personal information on July 26.Nate is the ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294861/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:05 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294861/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have left 41 people dead and 12 missing in South Korea as of Thursday morning, the National Emergency Management Agency said.At least 15 people were killed after a wave of mudslide engulfed residential areas at the foot of Mount Umyeon in southern Seoul on Wednesday.The death toll from a landslide in Chuncheon, about 110 kilometers ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294862/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:01 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215294862/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 WAM SHARJAH, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- A delegation from the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is participating in the Seoul International Book Fair, taking place at COEX in Seoul from the 19th to the 23rd of June which was inaugurated by Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea. Headed by Ahmed Al Ameri, SIBF Director, and including Salim Omar Salim, Head of Sales and Marketing at SIBF, ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215292865/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:09:44 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215292865/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Iran players celebrate victory over South Korea in a World Cup qualifier in Ulsan, Korea, on Tuesday. South Korean media blamed Iran Wednesday for angry scenes at a tense World Cup qualifier which ended with fans pelting debris on to the pitch and the visiting coach under fire for a rude ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290706/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:40 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290706/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will buy European bunker-busting missiles as the United States refused to sell the same kind of weapons to the country, the state procurement agency said on Wednesday.At a meeting presided over by Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin, the Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) approved a plan to purchase air-to-ground missiles with a 500-kilometre (312.5 mile) range ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290186/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:35:51 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290186/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Centre is ready to continue cooperation with South Korea if the Republic of Korea asks for this, Director-General Alexander Seliverstov said on Wednesday. The Khrunichev Centre and South Korea launched three KSLV boosters, Seliverstov told journalists within the Paris Air Show. "The ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215289963/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:07 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215289963/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Almost half of the households in Seoul now consist of just one or two people, according to a survey on 49,785 residents by the Seoul Metropolitan Government late last year. Some 46.8 percent of households consisted of one or two ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290188/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:53:37 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290188/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:03am EDT * Drop in Samsung Electronics, tech stocks weighs * Hyundai Motor gains for a second day on earnings hopes SEOUL, June 19 (Reuters) - Seoul shares slipped on Wednesday as foreign investors were net sellers for a ninth straight session as the market awaited the results of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting for clarity on its stimulus programme. No immediate ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290187/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:03:52 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215290187/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 It is worrisome that drugs smuggled into Korea or trafficked through it have been increasing rapidly in recent years. The number of drug-smuggling cases uncovered by the Korea Customs Service rose from 150 in 2009 to 232 last year. Recent figures from the KCS augmented the perception that the country could no longer be recognised as a place relatively free of narcotics. For the first five months ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215288363/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:14:15 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215288363/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 The Ethiopian Airlines, one of the fastest growing airliners in Africa, on Tuesday launched its new destination to Seoul, South Korea. The inaugural flight to Seoul coincides with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ethiopia and South Korea. The Ethiopian Airlines made the inaugural flight with Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Incheon International Airport in ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215284600/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:18 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215284600/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 SEOUL, June 19 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:17pm EDT SEOUL, June 19 (Reuters) - Seoul shares fell in early Wednesday trade as Samsung Electronics shares turned lower after posting their biggest gain in 2-1/2 weeks in the previous session. Samsung has been battered as analysts readjust their expectations for its smartphone growth, but managed to climb 1.5 percent on Tuesday. The Korea Composite ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215283960/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:07 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215283960/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Foreign migrant workers in small or medium-sized firms in Korea are earning up to 11 times what they used to make in their own country, a survey released Monday suggests. They earn an average of W1.62 million including overtime pay and bonuses a ... http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215276667/scat/3f5c98640a497b43 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:41:05 -0400 http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/215276667/scat/3f5c98640a497b43