A tiny egg-bearing critter wiggled its “shaggy” body through the sandy ground on an island in Korea. Little did it know it heading straight into a researcher’s trap. Scientists were exploring Dokdo ...

With the death of Kim Sin-yeol, the last registered resident of Dokdo, on March 2, the islets now have no official residents, with Ulleung County officials indicating that there are no plans to ...

Kim Shin-yeol, the last resident of Dokdo, recently passed away, leaving no civilians with registered addresses on the island. According to Ulleung County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, on October 2018, after Kim ...

In 1991, Kim Sin-yeol and her husband made the unusual decision to move to a lonely outcrop of islands at the heart of a long-standing territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea. Currently ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Feb. 22 condemned the hosting of a "Takeshima Day" event by Japan's Shimane Prefecture in which a high-ranking official from the Japanese central government attended ...

The last registered resident of Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets, has died, leaving the outpost without a legal resident for the first time since the 196 ...

Seoul plans to embark on gradual exploration of the area, with the initial focus on mapping potential methane hydrates deposits and other minerals, starting in 2008. The Ulleung basin near the islands ...

FILE PHOTO: A set of remote islands called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's defence ministry summoned Japan's defence attache on Tuesday to protest over an ...

Japan’s historical dispute with South Korea over the Dokdo islets (known as Takeshima to the Japanese) has been reignited, with both sides launching salvos against each others’ territorial claims. The ...