President Francois Hollande has named 38-year-old technocrat Fleur Pellerin as France's first South Korean-born minister, in charge of small and medium-sized businesses and the digital economy.
In South Korea, the conservative ruling New Frontier Party won 152 seats in the 300-seat National Assembly, 25 more than the Democratic United Party, the centre-left opposition.
A pressure group in the US has called on French automobile giant Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan to withdraw from Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme.
South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak said on 2 January that now that North Korea has a new leader following the death of Kim Jong-Il, he sees opportunities for improving relations between the two ...
South Korea has scrapped a plan to display Christmas lights near the border with North Korea, in a conciliatory gesture as its neighbour mourns the death of leader Kim Jong-Il.
North Korean state media has announced the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, aged 69, of a heart attack, plunging the deeply isolated nation into a second dynastic succession.
A free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea stands blocked in the South Korean national assembly. Opposition to the FTA is strong across the country.
The 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, capped a prestigious treble for the small nation, following up on the 1988 Olympic Games and the 2002 World Championships.
South Korea's hostiong of the 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships inspired pride in the local press, following the 1988 Olympic Games and the 2002 World Championships.
