South Korea

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri — a portmanteau of...

South Korea reported over 400,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a new high, as the country continues to relax restrictions despite the Omicron-fueled outbreak. According to health officials, 400,741 cases were reported, the largest daily total...

According to AFP, South Korea captured an unarmed North Korean boat with seven crew members and fired a warning shot at a patrol vessel that attempted to assist. According to a defense ministry official, a North...

South Korea said Monday it will halt all transactions with Russia’s central bank in the latest series of punitive actions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. The foreign ministry said in a statement it had...

South Korea’s antitrust regulator said on Monday it decided to fine German carmaker Mercedes-Benz and its Korean unit 20.2 billion won ($16.9 million) for false advertising tied to gas emissions of its diesel passenger vehicles. The...

The United States has granted South Korea a sanctions exemption, allowing the country to pay millions of dollars of overdue compensation to an Iranian investor over a 2010 dispute. Seoul’s foreign ministry said it had received...

South Korean ex-dictator Chun Doo-hwan, who brutally crushed opponents until mass demonstrations forced him out, died on Tuesday, his longtime aide announced. The former president died at his home in Seoul, Min Jeong-ki told reporters outside...

Apart from the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector, South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Jang-keun stated today that his country is working hard to broaden trade partnership with Bangladesh in additional viable areas. After touring Panam city...

South Korea has become the first major Asian economy to raise interest rates since the coronavirus pandemic began. The Bank of Korea increased its base rate of interest from a record low of 0.5% to 0.75%....

South Korea’s daily count of coronavirus cases has topped 800, the highest in nearly six months, due to new cluster infections and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, officials said on Friday. The Korea...