TEHRAN, February 5 - A South Korean appeals court on Monday set Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee free after nearly a year of detention, suspending his five-year jail term after he was convicted of bribing the country’s former president.
TEHRAN, January 21 - US President Donald Trump has called on his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in to publicly give him credit for creating the atmosphere for rival North Korea to seek talks and détente with the South in efforts to take part in the Winter Olympics due to be held in South Korean city of PyeongChang next month.
TEHRAN, January 14 -Hong Kong police arrested a South Korean man on suspicion of murder on Sunday after his wife and seven-year-old son were found dead in a room at the five star Ritz-Carlton hotel.
TEHRAN, January 4 - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will on Thursday meet women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, days after their plight has again cast a shadow over ties between South Korea and Japan.
TEHRAN, December 16 -A North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds during a defection dash across the border to South Korea has been transferred to a military hospital, a South Korean intelligence official said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, December 8 - The South Korean government has allocated the first $310,000 to its newly created “decapitation unit,” which, in the event of war with Pyongyang, will be tasked with neutralizing its leadership and sabotaging crucial military facilities, local media report.
TEHRAN, November 28 -The first decentralized peer-to-peer payment system, bitcoin, has broken through the $10,000 mark on South Korea’s Bithumb, one of world’s biggest exchanges for cryptocurrencies. The price of bitcoin this year has jumped more than 10-fold.