After the melamine-tainted milk in China found its way to Korea, Seoul responded by improving their food labeling requirements for imported food.

The common proverb proclaims that when the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world gets a cold. When three of the five largest U.S. banks failed in the span of a week, the panic spread around the world in record time - seemingly proving the proverb as...

“Blind masseurs jump from bridge”:(Photo credit: AP) The story as reported by CNN (first reported by Yonhap, a Korean news agency) is definitely a combination of five words you wouldn’t expect to see together in the news. I could...

South Korea, like many other countries has been heavily affected by the bankruptcies and other woes on the American stock market.

Although most American news stories of today have focused on the imploding / bankrupt American banks, more than a few stories have been written about the question of Kim Jong-Il’s health. The ‘Dear Leader’ of communist North Korea has...

Kim Jong-Il fails to attend Chuseok event - another indication that his health is going downhill.

Chuseok - from old Korean for ‘great middle’ but simplified to ‘Korean Thanksgiving’ for us foreigners - is coming up. Officially, Chuseok falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (September 14 for everyone else), and the...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il having health problems? He didn’t attend North Korea’s 60th anniversary party in Pyongyang, although reports of health concerns are being called a “conspiracy”. Hmm...