South Korea will sharply raise the amount of money given to people who report spies and spy ships as part of its efforts to raise peoples' awareness toward national security threats, the government said Saturday. The Ministry of Justice said a preannouncement of legislation has been made that will revise current rules regarding rewards so a maximum 500 million won ($467,700) can be given for inf...

A joint Korea-U.S. team investigating the alleged burial of Agent Orange at one of the U.S. army bases here said Friday that it has found no evidence yet to believe that the toxic defoliant was buried. Still, it found a trace amount of dioxin, unrelated to Agent Orange, and significant amounts of other harmful substances in groundwater on Camp Carroll, located in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang Provinc...

Seoul City, under fire for neglect of duty after the deaths of 18 citizens caused by landslides last week, is moving to axe officials responsible for the calamity. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Friday, it has toughened disciplinary rules against civil servants who are found negligent of duties that relate to the safety of its 10 million residents. Under the new rules, Seoul’...

A teenager who had been charged of extorting money from victims deceived by his rape swindle was sentenced up to 15 months, Suwon District Court announced. The 18-year-old convict, identified as Jung, had allegedly used online chatting to lure teenaged boys into having a physical relationship with his girlfriend, and later threatened them by saying that he would report the case to the police as ...

SEOUL, Aug, 4 (Yonhap) -- The operator of two popular Web sites was sued Thursday over the leak of personal information of millions of its users following a massive hacking attack last week. A man, whose surname is Lee, filed the damage suit against SK Communications Co., the operator of the Nate search engine and Cyworld social networking Web site. SK Communications officials had admitted that ...

New concerns of cars, fundamentally damaged from being waterlogged, filling the used-car market have potential buyers wary of buying second-hand, a consequence of July’s record downpour. Although waterlogged cars can be restored back to proper working condition, experts voiced concerns that retailers could trick consumers into buying permanently damaged vehicles. According to the Seoul Metropol...

Prosecutors have indicted three retired high-ranking Air Force officers including a former four-star general on charges of providing classified military information to the U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin, officials said Wednesday. Among them was a former Air Force chief of staff identified only by his surname Kim. Kim, 81, led the Air Force from 1982-84. Since 1995, he has run a local weapons...

A high-ranking financial regulator implicated in a savings bank corruption probe jumped off a bridge over the Han River on Wednesday, but was rescued by police. He is in a stable condition, police officials said. Kim Jang-ho, an assistant deputy governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, jumped off Dongjak Bridge in southern Seoul, at around 12:30 p.m. in an apparent suicide attempt. A pass...

Tower Palace, a high-rise luxury apartment block located at the heart of Seoul’s posh residential area of Dogok-dong, is known as an exclusive home to the rich and powerful. Yet, their closed lifestyle does not necessarily mean a friendly neighborhood. A Seoul court on Wednes­day rejected an appeal filed by a resident there identified by the surname Kim who sought a court ban on another tenant ...