Seoul shares slipped on Thursday led by technology stocks such as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) after the automaker warned its second-half sales may slide. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) finished down 0.15 percent at 1,770.88 points. Individual investors were sellers of a net 79 billion won ($66.66 million) worth of stocks More >

South Korea was expected to push for a message denouncing the attack on the Cheonan at a regional security forum attended by top diplomats from both Koreas. “The ASEAN Regional Forum will hopefully touch on the sinking of the Cheonan when members issue a statement at the end of the meeting,” one government official said More >

A top Chinese think tank has named Seoul as one of the 10 most competitive cities in the world, Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The capital city ranked ninth on the list of global urban competitiveness compiled by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, jumping three spots from its 2008 listing. New York and London More >

A pair of elephants donated by the Cambodian government arrived in Seoul on Thursday evening, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said. Currently, there are 11 elephants in six zoos in Korea, but they are in their 30s and the females are no longer reproductive. The city government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade made More >

SOUTH Korea has rejected North Korea’s proposal for direct military talks on the sinking of a warship. The Seoul government says issue should be handled under the armistice that ended the 1950-53 war with Pyongyang.

Seoul shares opened lower on Wednesday after losses on Wall Street and weakness in U.S. home sales data, sending key exporters such as Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and LG Electronics (066570.KS) lower.

Seoul City will hold a contest for best “modern-war scenarios” by its residents to “promote a public sense of security” as tensions mount over North Korea’s attack of a South Korean warship in March, a move raising eyebrows of some civic activists. In a notice put up on its Web site, the city government Thursday More >

A SENIOR Korean military commander has been arrested on suspicion of leaking the South’s military defence plans to Kim Jong-il’s regime. The major general, identified only as Kim, arrested by military authorities yesterday, faces charges of supplying confidential information to North Korea. The information he is alleged to have leaked includes parts of the detailed More >

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon from the ruling Grand National Party and his wife Prof. Song Hyun-ok cast their votes in local elections at a polling station in Jongno, Seoul on Wednesday.

” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday the world must respond to the “unacceptable provocation” represented by the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, as the regime shelled out more blistering rhetoric against Seoul and Washington. Tension on the divided Korean peninsula has risen dramatically since international