South Korea prepared on Monday to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbour since a conservative, pro-US government too

India’s top utility vehicle maker Mahindra and Mahindra has been chosen as the preferred bidder to take over South Korea’s bankrupt Ssangyong Motor, creditors said on Thursday.

The South Korean military started a five-day naval exercise on Thursday near its disputed maritime border with the communist north, a local report said. The country’s largest-ever anti-submarine drills are to be held near the location of the deadly sinking of a South Korean corvette in March, which Seoul blames on its northern neighbour, South Korean agency Yonhap News reported.

North Korea’s military on Tuesday threatened a “physical counter-attack” to a South Korean naval exercise set to start this week in the Yellow Sea, the communist state’s official media reported.

North Korea said on Monday it would bolster its nuclear weaponry with an unspecified new method in response to what it called US hostility and recent developments.

North Korea said on Sunday it was open to inter-Korean military talks to address the sinking of a South Korean warship but urged the United States to cease its involvement in the case.

A South Korean space rocket carrying a scientific satellite exploded two minutes into its flight in the second failure in two tries to put a payload in orbit, dealing a major setback to the country’s space programme.

Workaholic South Korea will encourage its labour force to work less overtime in order to create more jobs and boost productivity and the dwindling birth rate, a top labour policy group said on Wednesd

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law was promoted and a Premier who apologised for a currency debacle was replaced on Monday in a rare parliamentary session with strong signs that the secr

South Korea’s World Cup squad has been using a specially built “thin-air” lounge to acclimatise for South Africa while Japan has given each team member an oxygen tank.