Rich countries may act on their own to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations even if U.N. climate talks get bogged down, experts said.

Nearly 200 countries have been trying to reach an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming with a December deadline at a meeting in Copenhagen approaching.

A blogger was acquitted by a Seoul court on charges of spreading malicious rumours about the South Korean economy that cost the government billions of dollars. Park Dae-sung was released after the court ruled he did not violate telecommunications laws with his popular weblogs, which castigated policymakers and forecast dire scenarios that many investors took to heart. The case was

Seoul: North Korea, defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest nuclear test, fired two more short-range missiles off its east coast on Tuesday and accused the US of plotting against its government.

South Korea is expected to ramp up pressure on the European Union to initial a $100 billion trade pact before the end of June at a summit on Saturday before Seoul turns its attentions to a deal with the United States.

RNL Bio, a South Korean biotech company, is venturing into the world of treating human diseases through stem cell therapies, raising the prospects of a new, highly profitable export industry.

The company, famous for the commercial cloning of dogs, is developing therapies using adult stem cells to treat degenerative diseases

The top technology university in South Korea has developed a plan to power electric cars through recharging strips embedded in roadways that use a technology to transfer energy found in some electric toothbrushes.

South Koreans are not cleaning their plates of fermented cabbage and spicy octopus, so the government is calling in foreigners for help.

A signing ceremony for Patrind hydropower IPP project of 150 MW capacity worth 331 million dollars was held in Seoul on Thursday. Ministry of Investment Secretary Tariq Iqbal Puri attended the ceremony where the consortium of K-water, Sambu Construction and Daewoo E&C signed the agreement.