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(ATTN: CHANGES lead; UPDATES with more info throughout; ADDS photo) SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Tens of thousands of protesters holding lit candles rallied in central Seoul Saturday, demanding President Park Geun-hye's resignation from office over a cor

(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES with more info throughout; ADDS photo) SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Seoul Saturday demanding President Park Geun-hye's resignation from office over a corruption sc

(ATTN: ADDS photo, more info in last 3 paras) SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Suwon FC have been relegated back to South Korea's second-tier football league after just one season in the top flight. Suwon lost 1-0 to Incheon United at Incheon Football S

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Suwon FC have been relegated back to South Korea's second-tier football league after just one season in the top flight. Suwon lost 1-0 to Incheon United at Incheon Football Stadium in the city on Saturday, their final mat

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister-designate Kim Byong-joon said Saturday he is not considering rejecting the nomination to the post, despite rising calls from the opposition parties demanding President Park Geun-hye withdraw her personnel shakeu

Nov. 6 1922 -- Korea's first recognized pilot, Ahn Chang-nam, succeeds in his maiden flight from Tokyo to Osaka. At the time, Korea is under Japanese colonial rule. 1990 -- Four direct telephone lines go into service linking South Kore

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Woo Byung-woo, a former senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, is set to be questioned by prosecutors on the suspicion of embezzling funds from his family-owned company while influencing his son's conscription, sourc

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in central Seoul Saturday to demand President Park Geun-hye's resignation from office over a corruption scandal involving one of her acquaintances who allegedly meddled in

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shares will likely take a breather next week as investors to stay cautious amid growing political uncertainties at home and abroad, analysts said Saturday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSP

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- Sales of South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors Corp. in Britain advanced greatly from a year earlier in September despite earlier concerns stemming from Britain's planned exit from

Saving the country Both new and incumbent top government officials recommended that President Park Geun-hye submit herself to investigation on the allegations around her questionable relationship with longtime friend Choi Soon-sil. The need an

Park's second apology President should seek Assembly's help for normalizing state affairs President Park Geun-hye's second public apology for the Choi Soon-sil scandal was more sincere than the first one delivered Oct. 25. Instead of a cursory sp

Not enough Park apologizes for scandal, accepts investigation President Park Geun-hye stood before a national TV audience Friday -- for the second time in 10 days -- to speak about the snowballing political meddling scandal surrounding her longti

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on Nov. 5. Korean-language dailies -- Park only lowers head on public's call for resignation (Kyunghyang Shinmun) -- Park vows to accept probe while hol

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Saturday. Temperature (C) Condition Possibility High/Low of Rain

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea could carry out another nuclear test with little notice at any time, but is unlikely to conduct a long-range rocket launch in the near future, a U.S. website monitoring the communist nation said Friday. "W

By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced a set of regulations enforcing its blacklisting of North Korea earlier this year as a "primary money laundering concern" aimed at cutting off the communist regime

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- About 160,000 South Koreans were believed to be staying illegally in the United States as of 2014, down 10,000 from a year earlier, a U.S. survey firm said Friday. The Pew Research Center made the estimate as part of

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. consumer protection agency on Friday announced a recall of some Samsung Electronics washing machines for a potential safety problem. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that 34 models of Samsung top-l

By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye on Friday took another step to salvage her presidency as she announced her intention to face an investigation over a snowballing corruption scandal involving her longtime confidante.

(ATTN: UPDATES with reaction from S. Korea in last 2 paras) BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- China called in a senior South Korean diplomat to lodge a formal protest against the use of a machine gun to crack down on Chinese fishing boats, Beijing's foreign