“South Korea” on The Daily Caller

The Korea Times, the largest of three English-language daily newspapers in South Korea, added a breaking story to their science subhead on Tuesday: A Swedish company named Ocean Explorer uncovered an alien ship remarkably similar to the Millennium Falcon on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. (more)

A group of seven anti-smoking activists asked South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday to completely ban the sale of tobacco in that country, claiming that a constitutional “right to health” should render invalid any law permitting tobacco-related commerce. (more)

The state-funded Korea Consumer Agency announced the results of a survey on Friday which found that two-thirds of South Korean senior citizens are sexually active, and half of those pay for sex. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s ruling party forced a long-stalled free trade deal with the United States through parliament Tuesday, enraging opposition lawmakers who blasted their political rivals with tear gas. (more)

Twenty-one North Koreans, some of them children, have been found adrift in a boat off the west coast of South Korea, the authorities there say. (more)

The recent congressional passage of U.S. free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia has elicited an outbreak of Beltway backslapping. Some congratulations are certainly warranted, but a closer look at just how these FTAs arrived on the president’s desk reveals serious problems with not only the agreements themselves, but also the current state of U.S. trade policy. (more)

Congressional passage of the three free trade agreements Wednesday brings the U.S. one step closer to smoothly exporting American-made gadgets to South Korea, Colombia and Panama. And trade organizations representing high-tech companies are eager to hire Americans to get it done. (more)

The folks at the the Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUS) had reason to celebrate — hopefully with a swig of bourbon — Wednesday evening, following the passage of free trade agreements (FTA) with Panama, South Korea and Columbia. (more)

President Barack Obama will take his re-election campaign to a General Motors plant on Friday where he will tout the new free trade deal with South Korea, and likely again champion his $60 billion 2009 bailout of the auto industry. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will make his first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief later this month, as the U.S. works to bolster its relations with countries in the region. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress approved free trade agreements Wednesday with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four-year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships and giving the White House and Capitol Hill the opportunity to show they can work together to stimulate the economy and put people back to work. (more)

Three pending free-trade agreements could reach Capitol Hill as early as Monday although no deal has been reached on how to move the accords through Congress. (more)

Congress moved closer to approving new free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea after a procedural vote in the Senate Monday afternoon. (more)

SEOUL—The Korean Fair Trade Commission raided the Seoul office of Google Inc. in connection with allegations of unfair trade in South Korea’s mobile-search-engine market, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, the latest in a series of probes into Google’s operations globally. (more)

Sarah Palin is going overseas next month, this time to South Korea. (more)

A man’s body was discovered nailed to a wooden cross in an empty South Korea stone pit, supposedly next to a mirror so he could see himself suffer, according to a New York Daily News report. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is considering resumption of food aid to North Korea amid fears people there could starve after a harsh winter, top officials said Tuesday. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened Sunday to enlarge its nuclear arsenal and “mercilessly” attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared for joint military drills which the North considers a rehearsal for invasion. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and China expressed worries Wednesday about North’s Korea’s recently disclosed uranium enrichment program, which could give it a second way to make atomic bombs, a South Korean official said. (more)

Sixty-nine. It’s not the Valentine’s Day present you gave your sweet-something on Monday. It’s how old Kim Jong-il is today. (more)