South Korea has intensified a crackdown on the smuggling of capsules from China containing the powdered flesh of dead babies, taken by some as a cure for disease or a way to boost sexual performance,

A South Korean footballer who was banned for life over a match-fixing scandal has taken his own life, police said on Monday, the third suicide linked to the controversy that erupted last year.

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Foreign Ministers of China, Japan and South Korea have met to discuss among other issues, the tensions generated by the planned satellite of North Korea and chart a future course of action on cooperat

South Korea on Monday warned the likelihood of a “surprise provocation” by North Korea against the South is on the rise, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Seoul urged Pyongyang on Wednesday to discuss the fate of hundreds of South Koreans said to be detained in North Korea, in response to its neighbour's repeated demand for the return of four defectors.

Security of the state internet network being used by Central and local administrations will be beefed up, the home affairs ministry said today, after the country came under a massive cyber attack, known as the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, early in March.

Pyongyang urged Seoul on Monday to bring four North Korean would-be defectors to the border so they can confirm in front of their families that they want to stay in South Korea.

South Korea's coastguard plans to wrap up within days their investigation of five Somali pirates captured in a raid on a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea in January, an official said on Saturday.

A South Korean pastor was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for travelling to North Korea without Seoul's permission and praising its regime.

South Korea pressed North Korea on Friday to discuss its nuclear weapons programme, a day after the two nations agreed to hold high-level military dialogue to ease months of tensions.