Two more bodies of missing Chinese fishermen were found off the southern island of Jeju on Wednesday, the Coast Guard said, bringing to seven the death toll in the running aground of two boats amid a powerful typhoon the previous day.Still missing are eight crew members of the fishing boats that ran aground in waters off Jeju on Tuesday amid strong winds and high waves spawned by Typhoon Bolaven.

South Korea's government on Wednesday submitted a free trade deal with Turkey to the National Assembly for ratification, the final step needed for Seoul to put the pact into effect, the trade ministry said.After nearly two years of negotiations, South Korea and Turkey signed the free trade agreement on manufactured goods on Aug. 1.The two countries plan to hold further talks this year to conclude

Lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties adopted a resolution on Wednesday calling for the prohibition of the flag Japan used during World War II from football matches with South Korea.Rep. An Min-suk of the main opposition Democratic United Party said in a news conference that 68 lawmakers signed off on the resolution that calls on the South Korean government to petition the International

Japan’s opposition-dominated upper house of parliament passed a censure motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a bid to force elections and delay the passage of a bill needed to finance government spending. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and smaller groups voted for the non-binding motion, indicating the chamber won’t consider any more legislation before parliament closes on

This image is not directly related to the article.Two Canadian strip clubs have offered female college students tuition assistance in return for removing their clothes in public. The clubs are both in Windsor, Ontario, across from Detroit, CTV News Channel reported. Richard Kurland, an attorney for the Adult Entertainment Association, said the clubs have turned to students because of a federal law

Officials from Japan and North Korea were holding their first government-to-government talks in four years Wednesday, amid hopes that new leader Kim Jong Un will adopt a less confrontational approach to relations between his isolated, impoverished communist state and the outside world.The talks are being held in China, the North's closest ally and biggest aid source, which has been subtly pushing

 A simple blood test can reveal the state of a person's body clock and whether they are a night owl or a morning person, Japanese researchers say.Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers said two blood samples taken 12 hours apart showing the concentration of hormones and amino acids can reveal an individual's personal body time, the Los Angeles Times reported Mo

Sports drinks shouldn't take the place of regular water intake unless a person is playing sports or exercising, a U.S. registered dietitian says. Brooke Schantz, a Loyola University Health System registered dietitian and certified specialist in sports dietetics, said sports drinks will help hydrate you, but the average healthy child, adolescent and adult doesn't need the extra carbohydrates and ca

South Korea and the United States have resumed their annual military exercise, the military said Wednesday, one day after the 12-day drill was temporarily halted due to the onset of the powerful Typhoon Bolaven."Training related to the Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2012 will resume this morning after a pause due to weather conditions on the peninsula," the Combined Forces Command (CFC) said in a statemen

South Korean stocks opened higher Wednesday, fueled by gains in tech heavyweights amid lingering hopes for stimulus action by the U.S. Federal Reserve ahead of its chief's speech, analysts said. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 1.56 points, or 0.08 percent, to 1,917.89 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Tech blue chips drove up the shares, with mobile phone maker LG El

Yosemite National Park officials say a second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting the park earlier this summer.Spokesman Scott Gediman says health officials this weekend learned of a second death of a person who contracted hantavirus after visiting the park in June.There is one other confirmed case of the illness, and a fourth is being investigated.Park officials are war

A Beijing man ripped the flag off the car of the Japanese ambassador, the Japanese Embassy said in another sign of the worsening China-Japan island dispute.Kyodo News, quoting the embassy, reported the man attacked the official car of Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa Monday and tore off the flag on the vehicle, but Niwa, who was traveling to the Embassy, was not harmed.The embassy said at

South Korean stocks opened higher Tuesday, as investors await with hope for the U.S. Federal Reserve to bring about another solution for an economic boost, analysts said. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 7.83 points, or 0.41 percent, to trade at 1,925.70 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Upward moves in telecom and financial shares drove the index, with top mobile ca

The South Korean government on Monday criticized a high-profile Japanese official's denial of the country's forced wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, calling on Tokyo to take "sincere measures" for the victims.According to historians, up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude at front-line Japanese military brothels during World War II as the Korean Peninsula

The last-place Hanwha Eagles in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) have fired their manager, Han Dae-hwa.The Eagles dismissed him late Monday night, the team officials said, with 28 games left this season. Han's three-year contract was set to expire at the end of this year.Mondays are off days for all eight teams in the KBO, the nation's top professional baseball league. Through last weekend's

 Typhoon Bolaven pounded the southern and western parts of the country Tuesday, leaving at least 25 dead or missing and causing massive blackouts. As of 6 p.m., four Chinese fishermen were found dead after two boats carrying 33 crew members capsized off the southern island of Jeju. Seventeen of them have been rescued, while 12 others were still missing, according to the Korean Coast Guard. A cargo

A Chinese fishing boat that sank off South Korea`s southern island of Jeju on Tuesday. (Yonhap News)A raging typhoon grounded two Chinese fishing boats in waters off South Korea's southern island of Jeju Tuesday, with four crew members confirmed dead and 12 still missing, South Korea's Coast Guard said.A total of 33 crew members were aboard the two vessels, 17 on one and 16 on the other, when they

South Korean consumers' confidence dipped to a seven-month low in August as the protracted eurozone debt crisis and China's slowing economy heightened economic uncertainties, the central bank said Monday.The consumer sentiment index (CSI) -- a gauge of consumers'overall economic outlook, living conditions and future spending -- came in at 99 for August, down from 100 tallied in the previous month,

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he will meet North Korea's number two leader Kim Yong-nam later this week in Iran, where a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit will take place."As there are many occasions for participating heads of state to get together, there will be a chance to meet Chairman Kim Yong-nam and talk about peace on the Korean Peninsula and South-North Korea exc

Lydia Ko holds up the trophy after winning the LPGA Tour`s Canadian Women`s Open golf tournament, Sunday. (AP-Yonhap News)South Korean-born teenager Lydia Ko became the youngest winner on the LPGA Tour Sunday in Canada.At the Vancouver Golf Club, Ko, who now resides in New Zealand, captured the CN Canadian Women's Open by three shots over South Korean Park In-bee.Ko, 15, shot a five-under 67 in th