Full Coverage: South Korea

10.04.2008 "Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.

05.10.2007 The presidents of North and South Korea have signed a historic and permanent peace accord, and the North announced that its main nuclear facility will be dismantled.

13.09.2007 The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been a sanctuary for the peninsula's wildlife for over 50 years. As tensions ease, conservationists are hoping the land will be transformed into a "peace park" rather than a commercial zone.

08.08.2007 The 10th anniversary of the weblog leads advocates for fairer globalization to reflect on the pro-democratic power of “citizen journalism” in countries like China, South Korea, and Iran.

17.05.2007 Trains from South and North Korea crossed the heavily fortified border between the divided countries yesterday for the first time in more than 50 years, in a symbol of reconciliation.

03.04.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 2 (OneWorld) - Trade unionists on both sides of the Pacific expressed disappointment Monday after the United States and South Korea agreed the biggest U.S. trade pact in 15 years with only minutes to go before a deadline.

16.02.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 (OneWorld) - Trade unionists on both sides of the Pacific expressed relief Thursday after a seventh round of free trade negotiations between South Korea and the United States ended without an agreement.

13.02.2007 Shouting "fair trade, not free trade," representatives of U.S. and Korean labor groups are holding an all night vigil Monday to make sure their voices are heard by negotiators working on the largest free trade agreement since NAFTA.

18.10.2006 For decades the United Nations has seemed quite a distant place, remote from daily lives of most Asians, says former South Asia journalist Barbara Crossette. But the election of a South Korean secretary-general could focus the eyes of Asia on the world body.

15.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 15 (OneWorld) - Dozens of South Koreans took to the streets of Washington, DC Thursday in support of small farmers forced to relocate to make way for a massive new U.S. military base in their country. President George W. Bush was meeting with his South Korean counterpart just steps away in the White House at the time.

31.08.2006 From caste discrimination to forced disappearances and torture, participants at a conference on human rights in Asia detail the abuses faced in 12 Asian nations.

21.08.2006 Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.

08.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (OneWorld) - U.S. military and economic might in South Korea are being called into question this week as villagers launched a hunger strike to protest a U.S. military base expansion that would force them from their lands and farmers' unions demonstrated in Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement.

29.03.2006 South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has nominated Han Myeong Sook to be the next prime minister.

27.03.2006 As Korea enters into negotiations with the United States regarding a proposed bilateral trade agreement, analysts warn of the constraints this agreement will place on Koreans' access to health care and medicines that are currently easily accessible.

29.12.2005 The South Korean government is encouraging its institutions to move away from their reliance on Windows and Unix and adopt open source software. In a latest development in the country, two state-owned financial institutions planned to launch the country's first Linux-based Internet banking services in December.

22.12.2005 The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River is the most spectacular symbol of SeoulÂ’s shift from car-oriented city to one favouring transit, walking, and cycling.

11.08.2005 To mark this week's demonstration ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Amnesty voices support for the campaign for justice by and for Korean "comfort women" - forced into "sex slavery" during the conflict by the Japanese army.

23.06.2005 'Save the Whales' activists are declaring victory as a Japanese proposal to lift the international ban on commercial whaling was voted down Tuesday. While Korea's abstention was considered a particularly good sign for the endangered species, activists have uncovered new evidence that the underground trade in "accidentally" killed whales is thriving in the country.

16.06.2005 After Greenpeace focused international attention on plans to build a whale meat factory Ulsan, South Korea, the city council has decided not to build the facility, saying it would make the country appear to be pro-whaling and wouldn't be in the national interest. The news comes on the eve of the International Whaling Commission meeting in the country.