SEOUL, South Korea - The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul's opaque rival to the north, but the country's own people.

President Park Geun-hye did not attend a memorial ceremony Wednesday for those killed during the April 3 Jeju Uprising in 1948, drawing criticism from opposition parties. A service was held to mark the 65th anniversary of the so-called “4.3 Uprising,” in which police and soldiers killed tens of thousands of people who opposed establishing a separate government and holding separate elections from North Korea after the country regained independence in 1945. Park previously pledged to pay more attention to healing the bitter memories of Jeju residents when she visited South Korea'

GWACHEON, South Korea, March 30 (Yonhap) -- Senior officials from the government, the presidential office and the ruling Saenuri Party called in unison for closer cooperation with each other Saturday as they held a workshop to discuss ways to make the new administration of President Park Geun-hye successful.

By Somang Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's much-hyped household debt relief programme, a key policy pledge from new President Park Geun-hye, launched on Friday with far less money than planned in the latest sign the leader was struggling to gain traction. Park took power in February after a bruising election campaign fought largely over the economy and identified debt relief and narrowing rising income inequality as key policy platforms.