(Yonhap News)Nine North Koreans who crossed the tense western sea border aboard a small engineless vessel over the weekend for apparent defection are being questioned by South Korean officials, the Seoul government said Wednesday. The nine people, including family members, arrived on a frontline South Korean island around 6 a.m. Saturday, and are seeking asylum in the wealthier South, a government

A heartwarming story can give hope to those who want to give up their lives: Cha Actor Cha In-pyo remembers one day he went out for a bike ride in 1998. Korea was going through a major financial crisis. While riding his bike along the Han River he ran into a middle-aged man who was sobbing alone near a notorious suicide spot. Cha did not know what to do, so he just passed him by. Cha In-pyo (Yonha

The police on Tuesday sought arrest warrants for two people suspected of brokering illegal sales of human eggs and booked 13 ovum donors without detention. Seoul police on Tuesday sought arrest warrants for two people on charges of brokering in the illegal trade of human eggs via the Internet. (MCT)The ovum brokers identified only by their last names Koo and Chung ran a website where people shared

Korea's top financial regulator said Tuesday it is not desirable for KDB Financial Group Inc. to bid for state-run Woori Finance Holdings Co., raising the chances that the much-awaited sale of the group will hit a snag.Korea announced a road map for the sale of state-run Woori Finance, the country's No. 2 banking group, on May 17, after it suspended the deal worth around $6 billion to sell its 56.

An Italian named Matteo Ianneo claims to have found a mound on Mars that looks like a the face of Mahatma Gandhi, Space.com reported.He is one of space enthusiasts who are looking for interesting objects using Google Mars, a new online map pieced together from satellite images of the Red Planet.In the past few weeks he claims to have found vegetation, entrances to underground tunnels and city ruin

A British girl who has been fighting cancer for four years posted her wish list on a blog, bringing about sensation on the Internet.Alice Pyne wrote “I’m 15 and I have terminal cancer. I’ve created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life … some are possible, some will remain a dream.”Most of her wishes were typical teenage desires, but her first wish was to “ma

Scientists have found two rare active, “supermassive” black holes about 425 million light-years away, Space.com reported. The galaxy Markarian 739 in the constellation Leo is known to have one enormous black hole at its core. New observations by NASA’s Swift satellite and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed that the galaxy, which resembles a smiling face, has another monster black hole at its c

Former Agriculture Minister Im Sang-gyu was found dead in his car in the southern city of Suncheon, in what appears to be a suicide, police said Monday. He was 62. Im, president of Sunchon National University since July, was under two separate criminal investigations led by prosecutors ― one regarding a bribery scandal over construction-site catering contracts and the other, the unfolding savings

LONDON (AFP) ― Britain’s Prince Philip received a new royal title from his wife Queen Elizabeth II as a gift on his 90th birthday Friday, as the outspoken consort said he would finally scale back his workload.The queen made him Lord High Admiral ― the titular head of the British Royal Navy and an office until now held by her ― partly in recognition of the promising seafaring career Philip gave up