A bronze statue of a young woman with bare feet has sparked a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea. Japan calls its ambassador in Seoul temporarily return home from outrage over the picture, which was put down by activists for the Japanese consulate in the city of Busan. It commemorates the thousands of women who were made into sex slaves during World War II by the Japanese army.
He has just hinted that he would make a bid for the presidency of South Korea, but Ban Ki-moon is already under heavy fire in the Asian country.
South Korea has eight North Koreans and two boats transferred to the neighboring country. They were rescued last week after being struck at sea adrift. All crew members, some of whom showed frostbite, expressed their wish to return. The government in Pyongyang responded initially to the repatriation plan Monday but still sent patrol ships to the boundary waters to pick them up.
A jealous husband who suspected his girlfriend was having an affair, the woman according to The Korea Times has forced a humiliating tattooed text on her buttocks. The court in South Korea sentenced him Friday to three years in prison, partly because of the rape of his partner and coercion by letting the tattoo.
The North Korean army has practiced a particular target: a replica of the office of the South Korean president. Seoul warned Monday that the Stalinist country as the stress let up on the Korean peninsula.
The parliament of South Korea on Friday decided that impeachment can be initiated against President Park Geun-hye. During its implementation it has no more presidential powers.
For the sixth time thousands of South Koreans have protested in six weeks against President Park Geun-hye. She is suspected of abuse of power and fraud, and is likely to be dropped.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has left it to parliament to devise a way they can resign her post. The president is in trouble with a girlfriend who would have abused the relationship in order to extort money from businesses.
Samsung Electronics is considering to split. That proposal was made by the US activist investor Elliott Management and the South Korean technology group is looking seriously at the possibility. That message Reuters on the basis of the Seoul Economic Daily.
Again Saturday hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets in Seoul to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. It was the fifth mass protests in five weeks. The organization estimated the number of participants at around one million.
Tens of thousands of South Koreans argue Saturday in the capital Seoul against President Park Geun-hye. According to local media certainly 170,000 demonstrators on the road, which is a record, according to the police that is plucked with 25,000 men.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has made a new genuflection in the political scandal in which it is in. She has offered Tuesday to revoke the appointment of the prime minister appointed by it and choosing to have a new prime minister to parliament.
The South Korean authorities on Tuesday (local time) in Seoul raided at Samsung Electronics. Prosecutors investigate according to Yonhap news agency that the company has provided financial support to the daughter of a confidante of President Park Geun-hye.
The German company Osram, one of the largest lamp manufacturers in the world, has taken an interest in the Dutch Tvilight. That makes smart streetlights. Thanks to sensors that dim for example, when there is no traffic here, so they have to use less energy.
The South Korean authorities are gearing up for a special milestone: the number of North Korean defectors in the country reached the 30,000 expected this month. Therefore, the government in Seoul is taking steps to help newcomers integrate, message state news agency Yonhap.
Tens of thousands of protesters in the South Korean capital Seoul protested Saturday against President Park Geun-hye. They demand her resignation after a major political scandal. According to the organization, there are even almost a hundred thousand people on their feet, which the rally one of the largest protests in the country for years.
The United States will use all means to isolate North Korea. So said US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power Sunday. 'The US will also use the army as a deterrent to the threat from North Korea because of its nuclear program.'
The United States will use all means to isolate North Korea. So said US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power Sunday. ' The US will also use the army as a deterrent to the threat from North Korea because of its nuclear program. '
A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea. That said, the South Korean military Thursday.
"Samsung comes with an update that the battery capacity of his problem device, the Galaxy Note 7, limited to 60 percent. The update should prevent the battery catches fire and is automatically sent to users in South Korea. Or buyers outside the home of the electronics giant also receive the update is not yet clear."
"South Korea is considering twenty additional combat aircraft type Lockheed Martin F-35 order to increase the chances to turn the North Korean leadership in the event of war. These are military sources Monday, according to the Yonhap news agency said."
The stock exchange in Tokyo Thursday a loss based trading. Investors reacted under more positive data from the Japanese economy. The businesses Nintendo made a price jump after Apple announced that the game Super Mario Run is available for iPhones.
North Korea has fired Monday three ballistic missiles, which fell into the sea after a flight of about 1,000 kilometers east of the country, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. The launch followed a few hours after the South Korean President Park Geun-hye had spoken to an economic summit in Huangzhou with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
One of the top prosecutors Prosecutors in South Korea have fallen by large-scale bribery through the basket. Jin Kyung-joon pocketed millions by fiddling with shares of well-known games maker Nexon.
New Zealand has revoked the diplomatic immunity of an ambassador in South Korea because it would have misbehaved. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap immunity in a letter from the Embassy of New Zealand in Seoul deleted.
North Korea on Wednesday once again aroused the wrath of neighbors and the United States by firing two missiles that can hit targets in theory at 3,000 to 4,000 kilometers away.
At the construction site of a subway in the South Korean capital Seoul are Wednesday (local time) four construction workers died. The subway station where the victims had collapsed at work. Ten others were injured, including three seriously.
Over three hundred passengers who were in place at Boeing in the Tokyo airport for departure, his headlong evacuated after fire broke out in one of the engines.
Incheon International Airport in the South Korean capital Seoul has escaped a huge plane crash when starting a unit of Singapore Airlines on the runway was faced with crossing a unit of Korean Airlines.
A colonel from the North Korean army has taken refuge in the south. This was announced by the government in Seoul Monday. The man, who worked as an intelligence specialist for the National Intelligence Service, fled last year to South Korea and was granted political asylum there. The news was only now officially put out after media has already talked about earlier message.
