Blue House

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.