Great Whale Project, the first part of Korea's ambitious project of finding a potential 14 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves off the country's east coast, was found to have not enough ...

A group of mammal researchers conducted an autopsy on the dead body of a 12.6-meter-long right whale at a port on South Korea ...

The Republic of Korea announced in June 2012 its plans to kill endangered whales under a loophole in the whaling treaty that allows for so-called ‘scientific’ whaling. The proposal was met with fierce ...

Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tons of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official in Seoul said Saturday. Police said ...

The captain of a fishing boat in Ulsan practically won a 55.7 million won lottery overnight when a Minke whale was found dead ...