Police say that fired South Korean football club scout at the centre of a bribery scandal has been found hanged in an apparent suicide.

North Korea fires an unidentified projectile, South Korea's military says.

A North Korean missile "blows up almost immediately" on its test launch, the US Pacific Command says, hours before US Vice President Mike Pence was due in South Korea for talks on the North's increasingly defiant arms programme.

North Korea will be allowed to travel to South Korea for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics if it wishes to take part, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Monday.

Yu Dabao struck in the first half as Marcello Lippi's China stunned South Korea 1-0 to keep their slim World Cup hopes alive on Thursday.

Chinese authorities have stepped up security for Thursday's tense World Cup qualifier against South Korea, whose fans will receive a police escort after protests over Seoul's decision to deploy a controversial missile defence system.

South Korea's Jang Ha-Na stormed to a three-shot victory in the Australian Open at Royal Adelaide with a blistering eagle-birdie finish on Sunday.

South Korea's foreign minister says that North Korea's nuclear capability is expanding fast, echoing alarm around the world over the isolated state's fifth nuclear test carried out in defiance of UN sanctions.

Better-than-expected demand for Samsung's new Galaxy Note 7 causes supply constraints globally.

In the run up to the gubernatorial election in 2014, Nam Kyung-pil promised to transform the governor house from a cold and closed space into a warm and open space for people of the province.

A bluetooth system that alerts underground train users to give up their seats for pregnant travellers has been trialled in South Korea.

North Korea has attempted to fire a ballistic missile off its east coast but the launch appears to have failed, South Korean military officials say.

South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize, sharing the £50,000 ($72,000, 63,500 euros) award with her translator -- who had only taught herself Korean three years before.

The leader of North Korea has said the country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is threatened.

North Korea has said it will suspend its nuclear tests if the US stops its annual military exercises with South Korea.

A South Korean court orders a fried chicken restaurant owner to pay 14.5 million won ($12,500) for refusing to comply with a ban on using the luxury Louis Vuitton brand name for his outlet.

South Korea detects signs that the North is preparing for a fifth nuclear test, President Park Geun-hye says.

North Korea conducted a missile test off its east coast on Friday morning, but the launch appears to have failed, say US and South Korean officials.

The ruling party in South Korea has lost its majority in parliament after elections aimed at boosting its position, exit polls suggest.

A senior North Korean military officer who oversaw spying operations has fled to the South, say South Korean officials, in a rare high level defection.