Yi So-yeon, 2008 file photo. ILLUSTRATION: Courtesy Korea Astronaut Program. We asked South Korea's first – and still only – space traveler, Yi So-yeon, for her thoughts about him. Ms. Yi in ...

Yi So-yeon waves before launch in Kazakhstan in 2008. She is coming to Stanwood to talk about her experience as South Korea’s first and only astronaut to fly to the International Space Station.

The first South Korean astronaut, Yi So-yeon, is set to launch in April on a Russian rocket headed for the International Space Station. There are several stories here.

South Koreans are celebrating the launch of their country's first space traveler. Yi So-yeon has become the first South Korean woman to blast into orbit on her way to a research mission on the ...

Universe Today has an article about Yi So-yeon, the first Korean astronaut and also the youngest woman (29) launched into space. Very cool! I like seeing younger folks getting to space.

South Korea's 29-year-old Yi So-yeon became the country's first astronaut to travel into space after her Russian Soyuz spaceship took off from the launch pad once used by pioneer Yuri Gagarin ...

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut and two cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying South Korea's first astronaut docked successfully at the international space station on Thursday, officials said. The Soyuz TMA-12 craft carrying Yi So-yeon, a ...