The nation`s first foreigner-only prison officially opened in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, yesterday. Justice Minister Lee Kwi-nam, together with foreign delegates, participated in the ...

THE government of South Korea describes Cheonan prison, south of Seoul, as “the world’s first specialised foreigner correctional facility”. It must also be one of the most humane ...

From May 24 to July 10 he served a sentence of hard labor at the Cheonan correctional facility in lieu of paying a fine, Yonhap news agency reported. After his release from the prison, which is ...

Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, 23, spent 48 days in a prison in Cheonan, a city about 50 miles south of the South Korean capital, Seoul, after he failed to pay a $4,000 fine on charges that included ...

On a chilly evening in late March, a South Korean naval ship called the Cheonan was conducting routine exercises in waters just off the coast of a sparsely populated island in what the Koreans ...

The latest escape at a prison in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, involved a Chinese man who had been sentenced to one year and six months in prison for violence in July. According to the ...

When the South Korean corvette Cheonan sank a year ago, there was great uncertainty over its cause. Although North Korea was immediately suspected, Seoul initially downplayed that likelihood.

The prison is about 100km (62 miles) south of the capital, Seoul, in Cheonan. Inmates are given classes in Korean culture but can also view satellite TV from around the world and eat non-Korean meals.

Private King, 23, spent almost 50 days in a South Korean prison after he failed to pay ... held from May 24 to July 10 at a penitentiary in Cheonan, about 50 miles south of Seoul, the South ...