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

The language of Korea is unique in Asia in that it is not ideogrammatically based as Chinese and Japanese are. The hangul (written) alphabet has 24 characters and the spoken (called urimal or gugeo) in what linguists call a “language isolate” meaning that is bares no roots to any other known spoken language on the More >

Seoul’s culinary scene is becoming increasingly eclectic, and Gourmet Week will open from May 29 to June 13 to offer gourmands a chance to devour the best dishes at a tasty discount of 50 percent. Hyundai Card recently launched the international best-selling restaurant review guide Zagat Seoul, and some 70 featured eateries will offer the More >

They were traditionally buried with their most treasured possessions to take with them into their afterlife. And for this female mummy, her most important item was her handbag. The corpse of the Korean woman, which is thought to date back 500 years, was also discovered with her finest clothes as well as a the intricate More >

Mildly disgruntled from searching for a parking spot, then walking to the restaurant in drizzle, I thought we might be wasting our time. The space at 5170 Duke St. is kind of a graveyard for restaurants, and though I’ve enjoyed the food from at least three eateries there, none has survived.