North Korea threatened Wednesday to launch "a retaliatory sacred war" against South Korea for slandering the North, as the two sides prepared to hold rare talks on their troubled joint tour project
South Korea ranked first among the world's major economies in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) test of students' digital reading comprehension, Japanese news media
Creditor banks of Daewoo Electronics Corp.
South Korean stocks got off to a strong start on Wednesday as foreign investors snapped up Seoul shares underpinned by overnight gains on Wall Street, analysts said.
Seoul has more than its fair share of cultural and historical attractions. Many of them are clustered around Bukchon, Insa-dong and Seongbuk-dong, north of the Han River.
More foreigners visited South Korea than Japan in the first four months of this year as travelers appeared to have avoided the quake-stricken neighboring country, data showed Wednesday.
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By Lee Chi-dong
MOSCOW (Yonhap) - North Korea and Russia appear to have canceled their plan to hold talks between their leaders later this week, multiple sources here said Tuesday following a series of media repor
