Korea

S. Korea: Executed 4,934 citizens in a 50 South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with invading North Korean troops, a government...

In this article: Korean War

...Syngman Rhee was in a state of panic at the start of the war and deeply worried that Bodo League members could sympathize with North Korea and become a threat to the government,'' the commission said in a statement. © Copyright 2009...

In this article: Korean War, Seoul, North Korea, and Associated Press

Asia-focused private equity firm Unitas Capital received nine bids late last week for Buy The Way Inc, South Korea's fourth-largest convenience store chain, in a deal that could fetch at least $260 million, a source familiar with the...

In this article: Jpmorgan, Asia, Wall Street, and South Korea

...Inc <SPPI.O> said Handok Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd <002390. KS> will develop and commercialize Spectrum's experimental cancer drug in South Korea as part of a deal valued at more than $19 million. Handok will bear all the development and...

In this article: Cancer, Bladder cancer, Allergan Inc, Nasdaq, U.S., and North America

...worsened after a conservative government that advocates tougher policies toward the North took office in South Korea last year. North Korea has recently made a series of conciliatory gestures toward Seoul and Washington after months of...

In this article: North Korea, Buddhism, South Korea, Kaesong, Seoul, and Barack Obama

...expressed repeated concerns about the free trade agreement's (FTA) impact on the country's ailing car industry. In 2008, South Korea shipped about 600,000 cars to the US compared to roughly 7,000 cars shipped by the US to South Korea.

In this article: US, South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, US Chamber Of Commerce, Yu Myung-hwan, European Union, Barack Obama, and North Africa

...rose to 1.18 percent from Thursday's 1.1 percent. It has risen from 0.85 percent earlier this week. * Kim Jong-chang, governor of South Korea's regulatory Financial Supervisory Service, said foreign currency liquidity measures unveiled...

In this article: IRS, Kim Jong, London, New York, and Singapore

...says Obama trying to pick a fight President Obama arrives at a U.S. Military Airbase on Wednesday in Osan, South Korea. Obama is in South Korea for two days as the final desitination of his Asia tour. SEOUL As usual, North Korea's...

In this article: Barack Obama, North Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Lee Myung Bak, United States, Kim Jong Il, and Beijing

Obama wants to "get deal done" on Korea trade pact President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he wants to iron out remaining issues with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on a stalled free trade pact and that the agreement could benefit U.S....

In this article: Barack Obama, Lee Myung-bak, Asia, South Korea, and U.S.