Oh Se-hoon of the ruling People Power Party is headed for a landslide win in the Seoul mayoral election, with exit polls putting him at 58.7 percent of the votes. The exit polls, compiled jointly by terrestrial broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS, showed Song Young-gil of the Democratic Party of Korea with 40.2 percent of the votes. 　 For the governorship of Gyeonggi Province, exit polls forecast a close race between the ruling and the main opposition parties, with only 0.6 percentage point separati

Oriental white storks are returning to Korea after more than four decades, with fourth-generation chicks being hatched in the wild. This year, 12 pairs of oriental white storks are nesting in Korea this season and about 30 young storks have hatched including three fourth-generation chicks. While they were once commonly found across Korea, the domestic population drastically dropped after the 1950-1953 Korean War. The birds faced extinction as industrialization starting in the mid 1960s dest