A Korean Air passenger jet heading to Seoul made an emergency landing at a Canadian Air Force base after receiving a bomb threat, the country’s flag carrier said Wednesday. A Korean Air Boeing 777 rests on the runway of a Canadian Forces base in Comox on Vancouver Island on Tuesday. (Yonhap News)Its Boeing 777-200 was diverted at around 7:40 a.m. Korean time when the airline’s U.S. call center rec

Korean girl group T-ara will add new members to become a nine-member group for the upcoming album, the group’s agency announced on Friday.The new members will be revealed together with T-ara’s new album release in July, according to the T-ara’s management agency Core Contents Media.“T-ara will change from the current seven to a nine-member system, and if needed, we will replace old members,” Kim K

Russia is developing weapons that can bend minds and put people in a zombie-like state, the Daily Mail reported last Saturday.Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin has confirmed that his country’s scientists are working on guns that emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR). He claims that the new weapons will be “more acceptable in terms of political and military ideology” than nuclear wea

South Korea’s exports were less than analysts forecast in March, sliding 1.4 percent from a year earlier on weakness in global demand.Imports fell 1.2 percent, leaving a trade surplus of $2.3 billion, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said in an e-mailed statement today. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 13 economists was for a 1.3 percent gain in exports.Signs that Europe’s debt c

Rival parties on Saturday virtually agreed to launch a special investigation into allegations of the government's extensive spying on public officials and citizens years ago, as the presidential office blamed the previous administration for most of the alleged wrongdoings raised by the opposition camp.Early Saturday afternoon, the ruling Saenuri Party proposed appointing a special counsel to inves