SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, is marching toward the next battlefield in its war against Apple. On Wednesday in Berlin, the Korean mega-corporation unveiled the long-anticipated Galaxy Gear, a wearable smartwatch set for release...

SEOUL, South Korea — The Obama administration’s push for a military strike against Syria is in full swing, highlighting not only the use of chemical weapons but the regimes that support Assad. Aside from Russia (Syria’s most powerful ally) and Iran (its neighbor and...

SEOUL, South Korea — On Tuesday, bad-boy retired basketball player Dennis Rodman landed in North Korea for a second meeting with his unusual buddy, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. In February, the flamboyant star became the first American known to have met Kim Jong Un...

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SEOUL, South Korea — If you’re a film buff, you may have heard of a Korean-made summer blockbuster that, strangely, hasn’t reached American shores quite yet. Starring a line-up of famous Western actors, some critics say Snowpiercer — Korea’s most expensive film ever —...

SEOUL, South Korea — Ask an informed American about North Korea, and you may hear that it’s a land of suffering where hard laborers toil in prison camps and children survive on tree bark. Its crackpot dictator, Kim Jong Un, runs an army of goose-stepping minions,...

SEOUL, South Korea — As if tensions in Asia weren't bad enough, right wingers in Japan and South Korea are now trading insults over which country is worse. But if there’s an upside, the ruckus has kindled discussion of the more dreadful offenses committed by the two...

SEOUL, South Korea — Nearly 25,000 North Koreans have fled their homeland to South Korea, escaping the repression and poverty of the world’s most militarized nation. Many make a perilous trek through China, and sometimes to Mongolia and Southeast Asia, where they seek...

SEOUL, South Korea — Although the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) has been in effect for little more than a year, it is already drawing vehement condemnation from both sides of the Pacific. It wasn't supposed to be this way. The Obama administration feted...

Update: In early December, 2013 South Korean intelligence reported that General Jang Sung-taek was removed from power. If true, this would be the Kim Jong Un's boldest leadership shakeup yet. SEOUL, South Korea — There’s more to North Korea than its pudgy and easily...