It happened in a surprising instant: North Korea became just a little bit more accessible. Google Maps now features data on the secretive country, with the names of streets and buildings labeled, plus ...

Korea will decide whether or not to provide its detailed map data to Google in August, after the June 3 presidential election, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and ...

Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers, professors and debate panelists take a commemorative photograph at the National Assembly in western Seoul on May 8. [LEE SOO-JUNG] Liberal lawmakers and academic ...

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.

North Korea has always been one of the few blind spots in Google Maps' efforts to detail the world, but the situation is set to get a little better. Google has announced that it will be leveraging ...

In context: Despite being one of the world's most technologically advanced nations, South Korea remains one of only a few countries, alongside China and North Korea, where Google Maps cannot provide ...

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 that list. Google Maps has long been shunned ...