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The pray-and-spray firing technique beloved of gangsters in Korean cinema may be about to change, now that South Korea's Agency for Defense Development has created a weapon able to aim at targets around corners.
In a part of South Korea that is so remote it doesn’t even make it on to the map, 84-year-old Lee Bong-ju has been busy reviving the tradition of making beautiful, unique Korean bronzeware.
South Korea has unveiled plans to speed its new Sky Dragon long-range cruise missile and Red Shark torpedo into service earlier than expected in around 2012, in the latest stage of the Korean Peninsula's spiralling arms race.
South Korea has decided it needs to do more to prove that it is not just a hard-working country but a fun and foreigner-friendly one too.