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South Korea's president-elect to relocate office from 'imperial' Blue House to defence ministry compound
The former prosecutor has accused the hilltop headquarters of fostering an 'imperial' presidency and undermining communication with the public
Finding Frida: How the iconic artist has been reinvented, kept alive in popular memory
Frida Kahlo’s art continues to have the power to move, disturb, and thrill, even if it is endlessly replicated as a photo, or appears as an image printed on some very curious objects
South Korea to send envoys to Pyongyang to prepare for summit between two countries, discuss denuclearisation
South Korea said on Friday it will dispatch special envoys to the North Korean capital on 5 September to discuss the timing of a summit between the two countries' leaders expected to take place later in the month.
Moon Jae-in to arrive in New Delhi today; South Korean president's four-day visit will focus on economic cooperation
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit India from 8 to 11 July and hold a summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Donald Trump should win Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to end standoff with North Korea, says Moon Jae-in
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said US president Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme
South Korea's former president Park Geun-hye jailed for 24 years on corruption charges
South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country's first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule
Pyongyang to send ceremonial Head of State to South Korea as thaw in relations between neighbours continues
North Korea is to send its highest ranking official to the South amid an easing of tensions during the Winter Olympics, a Ministry statement said.
South Korea fire: 37 killed, 130 injured in blaze at Sejong hospital in Miryang
A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital on Friday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country's worst blaze for a decade
North Korea fires new mid-range missile; betters their every other missile test
North Korea on Sunday fired a ballistic missile in the latest weapons test for a country speeding up its development of nuclear weapons and missiles.
S-Korea presidential website hacked, over 100,000 account compromised
Yonhap news agency reported today that about 100,000 subscribers' accounts were hacked on the presidential website.
S-Korea presidential website hacked, over 100,000 account compromised
Yonhap news agency reported today that about 100,000 subscribers' accounts were hacked on the presidential website.
Former dictator's daughter is elected S-Korea's first female Prez
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the assassination of her mother and before the killing of her dictator father.