South Korea

According to the head of a significant union that represents tens of thousands of workers, employees at South Korea’s largest tech business, Samsung Electronics, went on strike for the first time on Friday. One of the...

In retaliation for hundreds of trash-laden balloons from Pyongyang, South Korean activists announced on Thursday that they had sent ten balloons into North Korea filled with anti-Kim Jong Un literature and K-pop songs. According to North...

During a significant conference that President Yoon Suk Yeol is hosting for dozens of heads of state from Africa on Tuesday, South Korea will seek to secure vital resource imports and strengthen trade relations with the...

South Korea will aim to secure critical mineral imports and boost trade ties with Africa as President Yoon Suk Yeol hosts dozens of heads of state from the continent at a major summit on Tuesday. Africa’s...

In defiance of UN resolutions, Japan and South Korea on Friday unveiled separate sanctions packages aimed at businesses, ships, or people purportedly involved in providing North Korean weaponry to Russia for use in Ukraine. Experts have...

On Thursday, Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, unveiled a historic $19 billion support package for the vital semiconductor industry in his nation. The biggest memory chip companies in the world, Samsung Electronics and...

Japan has lodged a formal protest after a South Korean opposition party leader made a trip to disputed islets, stoking a long-standing territorial spat ahead of an expected three-way summit with China. “It is totally unacceptable...

Voters in South Korea began their ballots on Wednesday for the crucial legislative elections that will decide who controls the legislature and if President Yoon Suk Yeol can continue advancing his socially conservative agenda.In order to...

South Korea’s second domestically made spy satellite was successfully put into orbit, Seoul’s defence ministry said Monday, after it was launched from an American space centre on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Seoul confirmed in December...

Seoul is providing “necessary consular assistance” to a South Korean national who has been detained in Russia, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, reportedly on espionage charges. Russia and North Korea have recently bolstered ties, including the...