As the official death toll from the disaster rose to 86, the president of South Korea condemned the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry Sewol on Monday, calling their behavior "unforgivable" and "murderous."
An arrest warrant has been issued for the captain and two crew members from the ferry that sank off the South Korean coast on Wednesday, killing at least 28 and leaving 270 missing.
The vice principal of a South Korean high school who was rescued from a sinking ferry full of his students was found hanged to death on Friday.
South Korean Coast Guard officers search for the 287 passengers who remain missing after a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea on Wednesday. Nine people, including five high school students, were confirmed dead, though that number is expected to rise drastically. Image via Ahn Young-joon/AP.
At least six people are dead and 292 remain missing after a ferry carrying mostly high school students capsized off the southern coast of South Korea on Wednesday. Dozens of rescue ships and aircrafts continue to search for survivors, though officials say the death toll is likely to rise drastically.
A worker attaches the name tag of a Buddhist who made donation to a lantern for an upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday at the Jogye temple in Seoul on Thursday. Image via Lee Jin-man/AP.
A South Korean marine LVT-7 landing craft sails to shore through a smoke screen during the U.S.-South Korea joint landing exercise on Monday. North Korea has reportedly announced plans to conduct live-fire drills near the rivals' disputed western sea boundary. Image via Ahn Young-joon/AP.
[A North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Koreaon Tuesday. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. Image via Yonhap, Lee Ji-eun/AP/KOREA OUT.]
Eight people died on Monday when a building in Gyeongju, South Korea, collapsed. At least 65 more were injured.
A plastic-surgery clinic in Gangnam has been ordered to stop displaying some 2,000 bone fragments from reshaped jawlines, stacked in a tower. The Chosun Ilbo reports that the fine for improper medical waste disposal was 3 million won; each jawline procedure costs 3.5 million won.
A suicidal man in South Korea jumped to his death on Friday, falling on a five-year-old girl as she was walking with her parents, killing her.
North Korea, strangely quiet as of late in terms of threatening to destroy other countries, launched three short-range missiles today into the sea. Its intent was unclear.
Everything was going great for South Korea's new president Park Guen-hye during her first trip to the U.S. Then her spokesman allegedly groped an intern while he was drunk in D.C. earlier this week, and skipped town.
It's an accepted truism that all beauty pageant contestants have a certain similar "look," but one Japanese blog has touched off a firestorm of speculation that South Korea's plastic surgery craze may have taken that cliché too far.
Declaring that North Korea's "nuclear armed forces represent the nation's life which can never be abandoned as long as the imperialists and nuclear threats exist on earth," Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announced today that the country would be restarting a nuclear reactor it had shut down in 2007, reneging on an…
Despite the fact that North Korea and South Korea have technically been at war since the 1950s, when their hostilities ended with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty, the North has now claimed to have entered a state of war with the South. Unfortunately, exactly what that means is difficult to decipher.
Following a joint South Korea-U.S. stealth bomber practice mission, North Korea announced that it's pointing its rockets at the U.S. and putting them on standby, and a state news photo seems to show its main targets: Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and, uh... Austin. (Just a few weeks too late, Un!) NKNews.org…
South Korea's three main broadcasters and two of its major banks were paralyzed on Wednesday by a massive outbreak of malicious code that crashed and displayed "skulls" on some computers, thought by many to be a retaliatory cyberattack from North Korea. The television channels KBS, MBC, YTN and the banks Nonghyup and…
Footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a delirious troop of soldiers on the front line with South Korea was broadcast on state television on Friday following a belligerent exchange of threats between the two Koreas, which are still technically at war. "With their targets set, our intercontinental…
Amid talk of new sanctions and continued U.S.-South Korea joint military drills, North Korea has vowed to cancel the 1953 Korean War cease-fire. North Korea's Korean People's Army Supreme Command issued a statement earlier today, as reports came that Washington and North Korean ally Beijing approved a draft of …
