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Y.E. Yang, of South Korea, reacts to a missed putt on the third hole during the final round of the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., Sunday, June 19, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Dae Hyun Kim, of South Korea, tees off on the first hole to open the first round of the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Dae Hyun Kim, of South Korea, tees off on the first hole to open the first round of the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Dae Hyun Kim of South Korea tees off on the first hole to open the first round of the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on Thursday, June 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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"Maryland is a gateway to doing business in the U.S., particularly in the life sciences and high-tech industries,"Gov. Martin O'Malley after his trip to China, South Korea and Vietnam. (Associated Press)
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South Korean investigators and technicians conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey Thursday looking for traces of Agent Orange at Camp Carroll, a U.S. Army logistics base in South Korea. The joint investigation comes after American veterans said they buried large amounts of the highly toxic defoliant there in 1978. (Associated Press)
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Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, commander of the 8th Army in South Korea, talks with investigators while technicians conduct the search at Camp Carroll. (Associated Press)
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Students at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology light candles April 10 to mourn fellow students who committed suicide at their campus in Daejeon, South Korea. Four have killed themselves since the beginning of the year. (Associated Press)
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South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan, left, walks alongside U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prior to their meeting at the Foreign Minister's Residence in Seoul on April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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South Korean environmentalists hold umbrellas beside jets of water during a rally demanding South Korean government to stop expanding nuclear power plants in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Fears over possible radiation contamination are growing in South Korea, the country closest to Japan, after Japanese nuclear power plants were damaged by earthquakes last month.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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**FILE** South Korean activists and defectors from North Korea release balloons with the words "Overthrow Kim Jong-il Dictatorship" in Korean and with leaflets condemning the North Korean leader during a rally at the Imjingak pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on Feb. 16, the North's national holiday celebrating Mr. Kim's birthday. (Associated Press)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner tells senators that if trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama aren't approved, U.S. "business just goes to other countries." (Associated Press)
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Models and LG Electronics employees wearing special glasses watch a Cinema 3-D TV by LG Electronics during a press unveiling in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. LG Electronics says competition is heating up in the global battle to win over customers to 3-D televisions and the South Korean company thinks it has gained a key edge. (AP Photo/Ahn oung-joon)
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Members of Amnesty International in South Korea shout slogans during a rally in Seoul, South Korea, to express their support to the Egyptians who forced the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, after ruling Egypt for 30 years, on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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North Korean refugee Lee Dong-woon, 82, left center, and his family members pay to respect for their ancestors in North Korea in front of the barbed wire fence as they celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. About 32 million people will visit their hometowns during the five-day holiday that begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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At the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Tuesday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urges North Korea to show responsibility for two deadly attacks last year. (Associated Press)
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A Somali pirate (hooded) arrives at the southern regional headquarters of the South Korean coast guard in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The coast guard says five Somali pirates captured during a raid on a hijacked South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea have been brought to South Korea to stand trial. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
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South Korean naval special forces approach the South Korean cargo ship Samho Jewelry in a military operation in the Arabian Sea Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. In the daring and rare raid, South Korean special forces stormed the hijacked freighter, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said. (AP Photo/South Korean navy via Yonhap)
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In this photo released by the South Korean Army via Yonhap, South Korean Army soldiers run out from a Black Hawk helicopter during an exercise to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. South Korea has welcomed an agreement between leaders of the United States and China on the need to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and achieve its denuclearization. (AP Photo/South Korean Army via Yonhap)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, shakes hands with South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)
