Samsung profit rises on smartphone sales

5 February 2012, 6:37 am

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple’s iPhone.... Read More »

Artisan Business Group Assists EB-5 Capital Seekers in South Korea

5 February 2012, 3:48 am

Artisan Business Group Assists EB-5 Capital Seekers in South Korea Brian Su, CEO of Artisan Business Group, Inc., gladly announces that Artisan Business Group, Jin Lee Law Group (California) and Hwapyung D&C (Korea) are jointly representing US EB-5 regional centers and project developers to Korean I... Read More »

South Korea security law is used to silence dissent, critics say

4 February 2012, 8:47 pm

Amnesty International branded as 'ludicrous' South Korea's indicting of blogger Park Jung-geun for tweets satirizing the North Korean government. By his own admission, Park Jung-geun has long been an Internet wiseguy, a young photographer and blogger with a cyber chip on his shoulder who... Read More »

North Korea opens door to talks with South Korea

2 February 2012, 8:40 pm

North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialogue, a North Korean military official told The Associated Press on Thursday.... Read More »

SKorean indicted for re-tweeting NKorean messages

2 February 2012, 7:18 pm

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Socialist Party member on charges that he reposted messages from a North Korean government Twitter account, a party official said Thursday. Park Jeong-geun, a member of the small Seoul-based opposition party, was indicted earlier t... Read More »

N. Korea again rebuffs S. Korean call for talks

2 February 2012, 9:04 am

North Korea's top ruling body Thursday again rebuffed South Korea's call for talks, saying Seoul's conservative leaders should first "repent of their crimes" and honour past summit agreements.... Read More »

South Korean indicted for re-tweeting North Korean messages

2 February 2012, 7:30 am

Seoul, South Korea— South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Socialist Party member on charges that he reposted messages from a North Korean government Twitter account, a party official said Thursday.... Read More »

South Korea to hand over apparent US war remains

2 February 2012, 1:58 am

South Korea says it will hand over to the United States what are believed to be the remains of an American soldier killed in the early days of the 1950-53 Korean War.... Read More »

South Korea Indicts Park Jung-geun Over Twitter Posts

2 February 2012, 12:43 am

South Korean prosecutors indicted Park Jung-geun, a social media and freedom of speech activist this week for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account.... Read More »

South Korea, Japan want U.S. to detail Iran sanctions

1 February 2012, 12:40 am

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan will soon meet U.S. officials in Washington to ask how much oil they can import from Iran under new sanctions that leave the Asian nations with few alternative sources for energy, government officials said Wednesday. Japan is the world's third bigges... Read More »