(AP) Google Inc. has helped fill the gap in one of the last remaining information black holes in the world by releasing a detailed map of North Korea that adds street names, monuments and its ...

South Korea has voiced its displeasure over Apple's map service for the iPhone indicating both the Korean and Japanese names in reference to the Dokdo islets, the ownership of which is a point of ...

Google Maps is available in more than 250 countries, so it may surprise some people to learn that a modern tech-obsessed nation like South Korea isn't on the list. Google Maps has long been shunned by ...

While Google Maps feels like a solid mapping solution, it has some blank spots — particularly when it comes to regions such as North Korea. But that's all changing thanks to a group of "citizen ...

When Google executive Eric Schmidt visited North Korea earlier this month with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, they urged the isolated totalitarian state to open itself up to the Internet.

Few realize that South Korea bars foreign companies from exporting the mapping data necessary for digital map services. That may soon change. Every day hundreds of visitors step off the AREX train at ...

[THE INVESTOR] Google’s recent attempts to carry South Korea’s geographical information outside the nation is mired in controversy. Those who oppose Google’s use and storage of the Korean map data ...