English Camps Reflect S. Korean Ambitions
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As tougher immigration laws make it increasingly harder for foreign students to learn English in the United States, immersion villages, according to experts, have promise beyond South Korea.
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DOHA, Qatar  -- In a politically charged showdown, North Korea will play South Korea in soccer at the Asian Games.
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North Korean athletes will enter the 2008 Beijing Olympics with pluck, a soldier-like fighting spirit and a completely different concept of international sport to the one embraced by former Cold War allies.
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BEIJING  - As many as 29 North Koreans entered a South Korean school in Beijing on Friday and requested asylum, adding to a surge in large-scale defections from the communist nation.
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The successful South Korean online video portal prepares English, Chinese, and Japanese versions.
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President Roh Moo-hyun's state visit to the U.K. is providing Koreans with a visual feast as they catch media-broadcast glimpses of the country's splendid court ceremonies.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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Twenty-nine North Koreans, including several young children, have entered a South Korean school in the Chinese capital to seek asylum.
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October 23, 2004 ã¡ October 23, 2004 ã¡ BEIJING â In a bid for political asylum, a group of 29 North Korean defectors, including two children, sought refuge at a South Korean school here yesterday morning.
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The English-teaching circuit in Asia is filled with transient foreigners, from backpackers needing to make quick cash to recent college graduates looking for experience.
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ANDONG, South Korea  - Looking like South Korea's president-in-waiting, Lee Myung-bak makes a pledge or two on local improvements but as he campaigns across the country, his main message never varies.
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In a rare nod to religion,  communist North Korea has welcomed 500 Buddhist monks and  followers from the South to a temple dating from the 11th  century when Kaesong was capital of a unified peninsula.
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A group of North Korean asylum seekers entered a South Korean school in Beijing today, adding to a surge in large-scale defections by people fleeing their nationâs dictatorship.
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North and South Korea, aiming to fulfil their long-held dream of fielding a joint Olympic team, met on Tuesday to try to iron out differences on the composition of a unified squad, officials said.
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A single Korean Olympic team featuring athletes from the North and South is possible, an official at South Korea's Unification Ministry said Wednesday.
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South Korea may join forces with the communist North as guests of honor at the world's largest book fair next year in Frankfurt.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.