Usually when it rains and it's a gloomy day, it's the perfect excuse to stay at home hidden under the covers with Netflix for company. But over in South Korea, it's those rainy days that you'll specifically want to be outside for. That's all thanks to new project in Seoul aptly titled 'Project Monsoon'.

Finally, a ‘competitive’ sport where we’re all considered elite athletes!The Space Out Competition is an annual event wherein contestants do absolutely nothing. The person who can chill and space out the longest wins!

Euronews - Tension between North and South Korea has flared again, with the north warning of what it calls an “indiscriminate pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice”.

As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labour would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear. “They are wondering if they will ever step into those shoes again,” my mother explained.More than a half-century later, the memory continues to haunt me. In poor parts of the world today, women still risk death in the process of giving life. Maternal mortality is one of many preventable perils. All too often, female babies ...

The Guardian - South Koreans are being encouraged to take part in their own mock funerals, as the country turns to shock therapy in the hope of tackling a suicide rate so high it is the fourth most common form of death in the country.At a recent “mass funeral” in the capital Seoul, employees of a recruitment company were told to write wills and farewell letters. Many of the participants, dressed in white robes, were moved to tears as they contemplated the pain their deaths would cause their families ...

South Korean police are bracing for a fresh anti-government protest in Seoul on Saturday, with critics accusing President Park Geun-Hye of increasingly resembling her authoritarian late father's heavy-handed rule.

Two members of five-person North Korean boat crew that drifted into South Korean waters were repatriated on Tuesday morning, a Unification Ministry official confirmed.The handover took place at the truce village of Panmunjom where family members received them.The five fishermen were rescued on July 3 by the South Korean coast guard after the boat's engine failed causing it to drift into South Korean waters.

An explosion at a chemical factory in the South Korean port city of Ulsan has killed four people, an official at the city's fire department has told CNN. Two people remain missing following the incident.

Five new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have been confirmed in South Korea and another person has died from the virus, the country's Ministry of Health said Monday.

It's fishing but not as you know it - forget about pushing the boat out, or even needing a rod and reel.The Mount Trout Ice Fesival in Korea sees locals and tourists alike trying to catch fish with their bare hands.