Indonesia has officially asked for verification of reports that South Korean intelligence officers broke into a visiting delegation's hotel room last week to steal classified information on planned arms trade between the two countries, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday."Indonesia asked us to verify the exact facts," the ministry's spokesman, Cho Byung-jae, said during a regular press briefing.

A group of South Korean researchers said Monday that they found a way to use drugs to fight brain tumors that are currently treated with only surgery and chemotherapy.The researchers, led by POSTEC chemistry professor Chung Sung-kee, discovered a way to breach the "blood-brain barrier" to permit anti-tumor drugs to work.The natural barrier protects the brain from contaminated blood, but it also ma

South Korea may face the threat of homegrown terrorism if its ethnic minorities end up expressing their frustration over discrimination through acts of terrorism, a research paper showed Monday."There is a possibility that the discrimination, scorn and frustration felt by migrant workers, multicultural children and North Korean defectors may erupt in acts of terrorism," Howon University Professor

Hundreds of Libyan people, some of them armed with knives and guns, raided a South Korean-run construction site in the capital city of Tripoli, sparking a clash that left three Korean workers and two others wounded, the foreign ministry said Monday.The rioters first stormed the construction site around 11 p.m. (local time) before leaving the site and then coming back again in a few hours, a minist