South Korea squeezed into the Asian Cup quarter-finals with a narrow 1-0 victory over co-hosts Indonesia in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Pyongyang received Saturday the first 6,200 metric tons of fuel oil from Seoul as part of an international denuclearization deal, the Xinhua news agency said referring to a source in the South Korean Unification Ministry.

South Korea will send the first shipment of fuel oil to North Korea July 12, a Unification Ministry spokesman said Friday. It said the shipment would be 6,200 tons.

South Korea will begin delivering fuel oil to North Korea next week now that Pyongyang has pledged to shut down its nuclear reactor, the Unification Ministry said Wednesday.

The United States and South Korea signed a free trade agreement Saturday that could become Washington's biggest deal since the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement.

Prosecutors demanded a six-year prison term for Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo on Tuesday in his appeal trial against a three-year sentence handed down in February for embezzlement, The Associated Press reported.

A proposed free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea is still facing opposition from some members of Congress. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill.

South Korea's decision to resume food aid to North Korea is based on humanitarian concerns and is not linked to the standoff over neighbor's nuclear program, a top official said Thursday.

The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan agreed to cooperate closely with their regional partners on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo was asked by a senior Iraqi military official to extend Seoul's military presence in the war-ravaged country, the Defense Ministry said.

Talks between North and South Korea have faltered, with the two sides producing no substantial agreement despite talking since Tuesday. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the main sticking point is Seoul's refusal to send aid across the border until the North implements a nuclear disarmament agreement.

A South Korean energy development consortium said on Thursday, May 31st, that it has found a potentially huge offshore oil deposit in Russia's Kamchatka region.