Research in South Korea has discovered that people who become flush in the face after consuming a few units of alcohol show they are at risk of alcohol related hypertension.

A South Korean farmer killed and cooked a neighbour's barking dog before inviting its unsuspecting owner to join him for a dog-meat dinner, police said Wednesday, in a case that has sparked online outrage.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea—U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump arrived in Seoul on Friday as South Korea’s leader faced a backlash for agreeing to host a North Korean general blamed for the deaths of 46 South Korean sailors.

“We sat down with them for talks, but in the end, we had to cancel the plans,” Gangneung city government tourism division chief Kang Suk-ho told Al Jazeera.

The man knows how to make an entrance.

South Korea's president plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and other senior North Korean officials when they visit the South this week for the Winter Olympics, his spokesman said Thursday.

The US President was speaking at a High School in Oklahoma as he launcheda new programme aimed at giving low-incomehouseholds broadband internet.

South Korean media say an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.5 has hit off the country's southeastern coast.

Lee Jae-yong, the scion of the Samsung dynasty and arguably the most powerful man in South Korea, was found guilty Friday for his part in a huge corruption scandal that had already brought down a president.Lee, who is 49, was sentenced to five years in jail — far less than the 12 years special prosecutors had asked for, but still an astounding turn of events even after the turmoil of the last year.

It is without a doubt one of the most bizarre global smash-hits in recent years.