Seoul - In the face of stiff competition from TV and the internet, South Korean newspaper readership is falling, the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) said Monday.

Seoul - The chairman of Hyundai Motor Co has been cleaning rooms and feeding and bathing abandoned babies at a Catholic welfare centre as penance for his embezzlement conviction.

Seoul  - The chairman of Hyundai Motor Co has been cleaning rooms and feeding and bathing abandoned babies at a Catholic welfare centre as penance for his embezzlement conviction.

Seoul  - South Korea's largest steelmaker is engaged in talks to import iron ore and coal from North Korea, the steelmaker said on Wednesday.

Seoul  - South Korea called Wednesday on Japan to immediately start energy shipments to North Korea to spur on negotiations with Pyongyang on ending its nuclear programmes.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its two environmentally-friendly mobile handsets, named W510 and the F268, at the World IT Show in Seoul, Korea.

The company said that the W510 is its initial cell phone to be made of ‘bio-plastic’ produced from natural material extracted from cornstarch.

The phone is manufactured using an environmentally-friendly metal finishing process, and it does not use any heavy metals like Lead, Mercury and Cadmium.