South Korea

North Korea suffers an internet outage for several hours before links were restored on Tuesday, but the US government refuses to say whether it is responsible.

A threat is made to “stay away” from nuclear reactors in South Korea unless the government shuts three down before Christmas, after a cyber-attack on the power company running them.

North Korea threatens the United States, calling it a “cesspool of terrorism” and accusing the Obama administration of being behind the satirical film The Interview.

A South Korean court finds the captain of a ferry which capsized in April killing more than 300 passengers guilty of negligence and sentences him to 36 years in prison.

North Korea sends a senior delegation to South Korea as the two countries agree to reopen a dialogue. But where is Kim Jong-un? The North Korean leader has not been seen in public for weeks.

Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the manslaughter of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and now faces up to 15 years in prison – but what fate lies ahead for the Blade Runner behind bars?

Pope Francis, on a five-day tour of South Korea, celebrates a huge open-air mass in the capital Seoul. He also visited a hilltop centre for the sick, disabled and homeless in the town of Kkottongnae.

The parents of a South Korean soldier who killed five comrades on the border with North Korea have pleaded with him to surrender.

North Koreans caught trying to flee their country face execution. But for one mother and her son, the risk was worth it.

South Korea’s prime minister resigns over his governments response to the ferry disaster in which more than 300 people have died or are missing, presumed dead.

The first distress call from the stricken South Korean ferry that sank on Wednesday was made by a boy to a fire station, minutes after the vessel began to go down.

The actions of some crew members as the South Korean ferry sank were tantamount to murder, the country’s president says. The disaster’s confirmed death toll is now 64, with 238 missing, presumed dead.

Divers have managed to get inside the hull of the sunken South Korean ferry for the first time to recover the bodies of those who died, it is reported.

The captain of the South Korean ferry that capsized apologises to the families of those who died, admitting that he was at fault.

The families of the hundreds still missing after the South Korean ferry disaster huddle together to watch live footage of the underwater operation to find their relatives.