Public figures faked degrees in scandal rocking S. Korea
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She was an up-and-coming South Korean curator known as the "art world's Cinderella" with a doctorate from Yale on her r&#xE9;sum&#xE9;.
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A former Hyundai CEO appeared headed for a landslide win in South Korea's presidential election, according to exit polls. Lee Myung-Bak broke from the pack by virtue of his rags-to-riches story and business background. But the vote became uncertain after foes released a clip of him saying he founded a company at the center of stock manipulation charges.
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A group of some 20 people claiming to be North Koreans entered the South Korean consulate in Beijing in an apparent bid to seek asylum there, news reports here said.
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About 100,000 South Koreans staged an anti-communist rally on Monday, burning North Korean flags to press their calls for the downfall of the Pyongyang government and an end of its suspected nuclear weapons programs.
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A South Korean group said on Monday it  had obtained what it said was the first visual evidence of  dissent in communist North Korea that indicated an organized  attempt at a movement against its leader, Kim Jong-il.
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South Koreaâs Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry is stepping up efforts to dispel foreign suspicions over a controversial uranium enrichment experiment by Korean scientists in 2000.
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Five people including a Korean American have been charged by South Korean prosecutors with spying to aid the communist North in the largest espionage case since the two Koreas began political reconciliation in 2000.
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About 100,000 South Koreans staged an  anti-communist rally on Monday, burning North Korean flags to  press their calls for the downfall of the Pyongyang government  and an end of its suspected nuclear weapons programs.
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Foreign diplomats who visited the site  of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said on Friday it was  a hydroelectric project under heavy construction, but South  Korea insisted the blast took place elsewhere.
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Contributors to the popular collaborative encyclopedia turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.
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South Korean officials said Tuesday they were trying to verify North Korea&#39;s claim that a huge explosion last week was caused by the demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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South Koreaâs parliament voted to launch an independent investigation into fraud allegations against the leading presidential candidate just days ahead of the vote.
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When the South Korean government admitted last month that scientists at its state-run research centers conducted experiments in plutonium extraction in the early 1980s and uranium enrichment tests in 2000, the international community decried the incidents
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South Koreans vote on Wednesday in a presidential election expected to be won by a conservative former CEO who says he'll help business and get tough on North Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.
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Hoaxers imitated the BBC news website on the Internet, including a fake announcement that King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden had been assassinated in Athens while attending the Olympic Games, according to reports.
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His research into inter-species nuclear transplant thoroughly discredited, Hwang Woo-suk moves his base from South Korea to Thailand's friendlier climes to avoid the ethical disputes that would arise by remaining in Seoul.
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South Koreans vote on Wednesday in a  presidential election expected to be won by a conservative  former CEO who says he'll help business and get tough on North  Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.