The South Korean military has held live-firing exercises on Yeonpyeong island - the scene of a deadly attack by the North last month.

SEOUL—South Korea said Thursday it would test-fire artillery in the next few days from the Yellow Sea island that North Korea attacked last month, in an assertion of its territorial rights and challenge to Pyongyang’s aggression.

(RTTNews) - A South Korean fishing trawler has gone down in freezing waters off Antarctica on Monday leaving at least five people dead, Seoul’s official Yonhap news agency said in a despatch.

A tourist bus crash in South Korea has killed 17 people and injured 14 others. Police officer Park Sang-ho said the bus was carrying 31 people — all South Koreans in their 70s and 80s — when it veered off a mountainous road Wednesday evening and...