South Korea says it will continue to contribute non-combat military personnel to U.S-led stabilization efforts in Iraq. As VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, the deployment is half a world away, but has everything to do with South Korea's neighbor to the north.

After the government launched a harsh anti-prostitution law in 2004 targeting brothels South Koreans are increasingly using new ways to buy sex especially on the Internet.

The leaders of North and South Korea signed a historic joint declaration on Thursday in Pyongyang pledging a commitment to peace talks and a range of economic ties, reported Yonhap from Seoul.

Pyongyang committed at separate nuclear negotiations to disable its main reactor by the end of the year. The first summit between two Koreas left south pleased.

Uniconverse Co. Ltd., the IT services company of Hanjin Group, one of South Korea’s top 10 business groups, with Microsoft Corp. and Sylantro Systems Corp., today announced that Uniconverse is deploying the Microsoft® Solution for Enhanced VoIP Services.

South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun has made a symbolic step across the border into neighbouring North Korea as he heads to Pyongyang for a rare summit meeting with his counterpart, Kim Jong Il.

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has taken a symbolic set of steps crossing the fortified border to North Korea, on his way to a summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Il.

Coming talks with North Korea will focus on bringing permanent peace to the divided peninsula, rather than the standoff over the North's nuclear programs, the president of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun said Tuesday.

Nigerians are celebrating the spectacular victory of the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria over the U-17 national team of Spain at the 12th FIFA U-17 World Cup Tournament, on Sunday, September 9, 2007, in the Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea. And this makes it the third time that Nigerian has won the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Tournament.

South Korea has announced it will include its minister of defense in an entourage traveling to North Korea for their summit meeting next month. This will be the first such defense visit since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

South Korea has announced that a 30-year-old robotics expert would be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station next year.

The Taliban warned it would attack South Korea's embassy in Kabul if Seoul is found to have broken its promise to remove all its citizens from Afghanistan, Yonhap news agency reported Monday.