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South Korean President Park Guen-hye announced she has chosen Ahn Ho-young, a former vice foreign minister, as ambassador to the United States.
Five Somali pirates captured when South Korean commandos retook a cargo vessel are being held aboard a naval vessel, officials say.
Crew members on a South Korean freighter hijacked by Somali pirates are all safe, a Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
Early preparations for a long-delayed presidential vote in the Ivory Coast went off without a hitch, a U.N. special envoy said from the coastal city of Abidjan.
A South Korean woman who has failed her driver's exam 771 times said she has signed up for another attempt in the hope that number 772 will be the charm.
Fishermen in South Korea have been hauling in unusual numbers of large blue-fin tuna, a phenomenon that may be linked to global warming.
The number of wiretaps done by the South Korean National Intelligence Service went up last year while those carried out by other government agencies dropped.
South Korea warned China Wednesday against "distorting" the history of an ancient Korean kingdom, saying it would damage diplomatic relations.
South Korea said Monday it would go ahead with plans to send troops to Iraq despite the abduction of a South Korean man by an insurgent group.
The surprising step by KT Corp, South Korea' top fixed-line and internet broadband operator, to slash 5,500 jobs has won positive responses from the market and economists with surging stock price and forecast of growing operating profits.
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