South Korea

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea proclaimed emergency martial law on Tuesday, citing the need to defend the nation against “communist forces” in the midst of parliamentary squabbling over a budget measure. “To safeguard a...

According to media reports on Wednesday, a Ukrainian delegation headed by its defence chief was scheduled to visit South Korea to meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol and talk about Seoul’s possible arms support for Kyiv....

With a fresh donation of US$2 million, the Republic of Korea has increased its assistance to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). WFP was able to contact about 76,000 Rohingya and give them a full ration...

North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul’s military said, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea. The alleged jamming comes a week after the...

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said Tuesday that he and Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, had talked about the deployment of North Korean troops to support Russia and had decided to increase...

North Korea released photos of the drone, which some analysts verified was South Korean, and declared on Saturday that it had found the wreckage of at least one downed South Korean military drone in Pyongyang. Recently,...

In response to North Korea’s instruction for troops along its border to get ready to fire over drone flights to Pyongyang, the South Korean military stated on Monday that it was “fully ready” to respond. The...

Major South Korean bookshops ran out of author Han Kang’s books on Friday, as the author’s historic Nobel Prize win sent local publishers’ stock prices through the roof. Han, a writer of short stories and novels,...

Author Han Kang became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Her work is distinguished by how historical events and mental and physical suffering are correlated. Han is well recognized...

The highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s Korean cult-horror movie “Hellbound” made its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, highlighting the new cast members, especially Moon Geun-young, with powerful performances. The first season of...