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SEOUL, South Korea — A sea of wailing mourners filled the streets of Seoul for the funeral today of former President Roh Moo-hyun, whose suicide six days earlier amid a deepening corruption ...
SEOUL, South Korea – A sea of wailing mourners filled the streets of Seoul for the funeral Friday of ex-President Roh Moo-hyun, whose suicide six days earlier amid a deepening corruption probe ...
SEOUL, South Korea – In a culture in which funerals are often lavish three-day affairs with hundreds of guests, the recent funeral for Song In-sik was modest at best. It had only one guest ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Wailing and sobbing mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white ...
SEOUL (AFP) - In freezing temperatures and light snowfall, South Korea held a state funeral on Thursday (Nov 26) for former president Kim Young Sam, whose 1992 election victory brought a formal ...
Slightly more than 30 per cent of South Korea’s 52 million population are single and that’s unlikely to change as many in their 20s, 30s and 40s have said they have no plans to tie the knot or ...
President Moon Jae-in’s decision to hold a state funeral was controversial because of Roh’s links to a coup and crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Wednesday called for a fair and objective investigation, and said funeral procedures have begun after all the victims were formally identified.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korea will send a delegation to the funeral of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
Dozens of relatives and dignitaries gathered in South Korea’s capital to pay their final respects to former President Roh Tae-woo.
Family and church members mourned at a private funeral on Saturday a South Korean businessman linked to a ferry that sank in April killing hundreds of children, though his death remained shrouded ...
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