A mystery woman pictured accompanying North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un to recent events has prompted speculation in Seoul about whether she is his partner or his younger sister.

The North's state

South Korea will soon sign a military agreement with Japan for the first time since Tokyo's brutal colonial rule ended in 1945, a report said on Wednesday.

The pact -- named the General Security of M

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said on Thursday it would invest about $1.9 billion in building a new non-memory chip line to address booming demand for mobile processors.

North Korea's military threatened Monday to blow up the Seoul offices of South Korean media outlets following critical coverage of a mass children's event in Pyongyang.

The military general staff, in

A family feud at Samsung Group, parent of the world's largest electronics company by revenue, could upset the smooth handover of control of a smartphones-to-ships conglomerate whose $234 billion annu

India is faltering as an investment destination because of significant policy mistakes and stock prices there will slide if the nation's credit rating is cut, according to Mark Mobius, one of the worl

North Korea has apparently finished preparations for a third nuclear test and is awaiting a political decision to go ahead, a South Korean nuclear expert said on Wednesday.

The expert also said the c

New satellite images show more work under way at North Korea's nuclear test site but give no indication of when a test may occur, a US-based specialist website reported on Saturday.

There is widespre

South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor bucked a sluggish industry trend in Europe and China and boosted sales in a recovering U.S. market to push up quarterly net profit by almost a third to $2.15 billio

North Korea has apparently completed preparations for a third nuclear test, possibly within two weeks, after firing a long-range rocket this month, a newspaper report said on Saturday.

South Korea's