Kim Dae-jung, the former president of South Korea and Nobel Peace laureate, who died Tuesday at age 85, was an icon of near mythic proportion. The man behind the nation's democracy and the architect of its "sunshine" policy of detente with North Korea left a profound legacy.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee will probably be used by Pyongyang as bargaining chips to draw Washington into bilateral dialogue. But South Korea finds itself with little leverage in the drama.

Up to one million South Koreans gathered in the capital Friday to mourn the death of former president Roh Moo-hyun, whose apparent suicide last weekend is surrounded by a number of questions.

The air is charged here as riot police have turned out in droves to contain the masses turning out for the late leader’s state funeral, the second highest ever to be given in South Korea.

Crowds are still lining up in Seoul to bid farewell to former President Roh Moo-hyun, three days after he committed suicide, and the mood is turning decidedly anti-Lee Myung-bak with each passing day.

A line of mourners wound its way Sunday from Cheongye Stream in central Seoul to the entrance of Deoksu Palace and an altar commemorating former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, whose suicide a day earlier has stunned the nation.

I woke this morning to a text message on my phone - "Roh Moo-hyun is dead."

There is speculation that the launch of a rocket by North Korea Sunday might have failed but reaction among South Koreans ranges from pride to anger to indifference.

My office has a pool going about when North Korea is going to launch its rocket.

A week before committing suicide, actress Jang Ja-yeon wrote a seven-page letter chronicling the sexual favours she said she was expected to perform in order to work in Korea's entertainment industry.

A South Korean activist who had been in regular contact with the two Current TV journalists until they were detained by North Koreans claims he warned them against taking undue risks.

Four South Koreans were killed in Yemen in what authorities are saying was an al-Qaida related suicide bombing.

North Korea's erratic and ofttimes bellicose regime announced in February that it would launch into space a satellite for peaceful uses. But the long-range missile involved could as easily be used for military purposes.

My office has a pool going about when North Korea is going to launch its rocket.

The story of Slumdog Millionaire, the box office hit, reminds one commentator of another young man from a Mumbai slums with his own million-dollar dreams and his own heroes.

South Korean authorities arrested an unemployed man on Wednesday suspected of being the author of a series of online postings critical of the government's economic policy.

For two day’s running now I’ve gone out with my co-workers for lunch and regretted it both times.

In China and Korea the Internet has become a vehicle for enforcing a loosely defined but highly volatile set of principles through fear, shame and sometimes violence.

Defying pleas from Seoul and threats from Pyongyang, a group of civic activists let fly about 10 enormous helium balloons filled with propaganda leaflets denouncing the communist regime and its leader, Kim Jong-il. The actions come amid deteriorating inter-Korean relations.

In South Korea, it is unclear whether the election of Obama is really altering attitudes toward race, long a central pillar of Korean identity.