News: South Korea

We have started to collect the most important news related to South Korea in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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South Korea: news

VIDEO: Could video gaming become an Olympic sport?

Wednesday, December 9th 2015, 4:23
related places: Seoul

E-sports - professionals competing at computer games - are becoming South Korea's national pastime, as Steve Evans reports from Seoul.
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VIDEO: Masked demonstrators in Seoul protests

Saturday, December 5th 2015, 15:42
related places: Seoul

Tens of thousands of protesters in South Korea have held a mass rally against a raft of government policies that they say weaken democracy.
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Mass anti-government rally in S Korea

Saturday, December 5th 2015, 13:15
related places: Seoul

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Seoul stage another mass protest against the policies of conservative President Park Geun-hye.
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VIDEO: South Korea 'trying to rewrite history'

Wednesday, December 2nd 2015, 1:56
related places: Seoul

Last month riots broke out in Seoul over government plans to rewrite South Korea's history in a textbook.
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Why South Korea is rewriting its history books

Tuesday, December 1st 2015, 22:36

The battle over the rewriting of history in South Korea
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Koreas in rare talks to improve ties

Thursday, November 26th 2015, 6:31

Officials from North and South Korea are meeting for rare talks aimed at improving long-strained ties, after a military stand-off in August.
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Former South Korean president dies

Saturday, November 21st 2015, 21:47
related countries: North Korea

Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam, an iconic figure of South Korea's pro-democracy movement, dies aged 87.
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North and South Korea to hold talks

Friday, November 20th 2015, 6:38
related countries: North Korea

South Korea confirms it has accepted a North Korean offer to hold talks next week, in preparation for high-level
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UN chief 'to visit North Korea'

Monday, November 16th 2015, 3:10
related countries: North Korea

Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea this week, South Korea's Yonhap says, the first trip by a UN chief in more than 20 years.
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S Korea protesters clash with police

Saturday, November 14th 2015, 12:42
related countries: North Korea
related places: Seoul

Security forces in the South Korean capital Seoul clash with anti-government demonstrators during one of the largest protests in recent years.
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Gangnam Style statue built in Seoul

Friday, November 6th 2015, 13:10
related countries: North Korea
related places: Seoul

A statue dedicated to the South Korean music hit Gangnam Style - the most-watched YouTube video ever - is built in the capital Seoul.
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Child monitoring app pulled in S Korea

Monday, November 2nd 2015, 11:25

Smart Sheriff, a popular app in South Korea for monitoring children's online activities, has been pulled following security concerns.
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Japan-S Korea agree sex slave progress

Monday, November 2nd 2015, 7:31
related countries: Japan, North Korea

Japan and South Korea agree to accelerate talks to resolve a row about Korean women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two.
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Asian powers 'restore' fraught ties

Sunday, November 1st 2015, 9:01
related countries: Japan

The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea say they have "completely restored" trade and security ties, as they meet for the first time in three years.
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S Korea 'fires shots at N Korea boat'

Sunday, October 25th 2015, 12:00
related countries: North Korea

South Korea's navy fires shots at a North Korean boat that strayed into its waters, the Yonhap news agency reports.
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S Korean wins Chopin piano competition

Wednesday, October 21st 2015, 1:50
related countries: North Korea, Poland
related places: Warsaw

South Korea's Seong-Jin Cho wins first prize at the 17th international Frederic Chopin piano competition in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
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S Korea to control history textbooks

Monday, October 12th 2015, 9:36

South Korea announces controversial plans to control the history textbooks used in secondary schools, sparking criticism from some academics and students.
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USA win dramatic Presidents Cup

Sunday, October 11th 2015, 7:37

USA win the Presidents Cup for the ninth time in 11 contests, beating the International team 15½-14½ in Incheon, South Korea.
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USA in command at Presidents Cup

Thursday, October 8th 2015, 15:05
related countries: United States

The United States take a 4-1 lead over the International team in the foursomes at the Presidents Cup in South Korea.
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Korean leader for UN climate panel

Tuesday, October 6th 2015, 20:26
related countries: North Korea

Hoesung Lee of South Korea is elected as the new chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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S Korea expels Russian athletes

Friday, October 2nd 2015, 12:40
related countries: Russia

South Korea sends nine Russian athletes, trainers and journalists home after they allegedly got drunk on a flight to the military world games.
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VIDEO: Dog rescue plan begins in South Korea

Tuesday, September 15th 2015, 7:11

How campaigners are persuading South Korea's dog farmers to free their animals and leave the business.
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Koreas agree on rare family reunions

Tuesday, September 8th 2015, 10:08
related countries: North Korea
related places: Seoul

The two Koreas agree to hold rare reunions next month for families separated by the Korean War, according to Seoul.
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Tesco sells South Korea stores for £4bn

Monday, September 7th 2015, 13:28
related countries: North Korea

Tesco sells Homeplus, its South Korean business, for £4.2bn as the troubled supermarket chain seeks to shore up its balance sheet.
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Anglers die in S Korean boat capsize

Sunday, September 6th 2015, 12:09
related countries: North Korea

Rescuers search for survivors from a fishing boat that capsized off South Korea's southern coast, leaving at least 10 dead.
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VIDEO: Tension on S Korea's Unification Bridge

Monday, August 24th 2015, 11:10
related countries: North Korea

The BBC's Steve Evans reports from South Korea's Unification Bridge on anger at what many see as increasing 'provocation' by North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
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S Korea firm on border broadcasts

Monday, August 24th 2015, 5:09
related countries: North Korea
related places: Pyongyang

South Korea says it will not stop propaganda broadcasts into the North until Pyongyang apologises for landmines that injured two soldiers.
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North-South Korea talks continue

Monday, August 24th 2015, 2:11

Top-level talks between North and South Korea to defuse a border stand-off have continued through a second night, officials from the South say.
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VIDEO: N Korea troops 'on highest alert'

Friday, August 21st 2015, 11:47

As North and South Korea exchange artillery fire the North issues a deadline for the South to remove their "propaganda" loudspeakers from the border.
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S Korea evacuation after border fire

Thursday, August 20th 2015, 10:32
related countries: North Korea

South Korea orders the evacuation of some residents from its western border area after an exchange of fire with North Korea, reports say.
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Japan emperor 'remorseful' over WW2

Saturday, August 15th 2015, 14:52
related countries: Japan

Japanese Emperor Akihito expresses "deep remorse" over Japan's role in World War Two on the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict.
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VIDEO: Anti-Japan protests on WW2 anniversary

Saturday, August 15th 2015, 13:32
related countries: Japan
related places: Seoul

Protesters in South Korea have burned anti-Japan placards outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul, on the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
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Japan PM's 'profound grief' over WW2

Friday, August 14th 2015, 16:44
related countries: China, Japan

PM Shinzo Abe expresses "profound grief" over Japan's role in World War Two, in a statement closely watched by its neighbours.
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N Korea vice-premier 'executed'

Wednesday, August 12th 2015, 11:37
related countries: North Korea

South Korea's government says it is monitoring reports that North Korea's vice-premier Choe Yong-gon was killed in May on the orders of Kim Jong-un.
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S Korea blames North for mine blast

Monday, August 10th 2015, 2:52
related countries: North Korea

South Korea warns the North of a "pitiless penalty" for North Korea after blaming it for a landmine blast in the demilitarized zone.
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VIDEO: Family feud, South Korean style

Tuesday, August 4th 2015, 1:57
related countries: North Korea

South Korea's Lotte Group is in the throes of a bitter feud as the founder prepares to hand over power.
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Robot can leap from water's surface

Thursday, July 30th 2015, 18:03

Scientists in South Korea develop a tiny robot - based on the water strider insect - that can jump on water
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S Korea arrest over US envoy threat

Friday, July 24th 2015, 5:23
related countries: United States
related places: White House

Police in South Korea arrest a man accused of posting a threat to kill US ambassador Mark Lippert on the White House website.
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