South Korea

According to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Seoul and Washington are exploring collaborative planning and exercises utilizing US nuclear capabilities to confront escalating threats from the nuclear-armed North. Yoon claimed that the United States’ pre-existing “nuclear...

South Korea on Thursday ordered striking truck drivers in the fuel and steel sectors back to work as a walkout that has caused havoc in Asia’s fourth-largest economy prepares to enter its third week. The strike,...

South Korea’s central bank on Wednesday hikes its key interest rate by half a percentage point to a decade high as it tries to tackle surging inflation and support the plunging won. The Bank of Korea...

As time was running out for elderly relatives, Seoul on Thursday offered negotiations with Pyongyang to restore family reunions for thousands of families split apart by the Korean War. The 1950–1953 Korean War tore apart millions...

Resuming field training on Monday, South Korea and the US started their biggest joint military exercises in years as the allies work to increase preparedness in anticipation of probable North Korean weapons tests. The traditional midsummer...

The heir and de facto head of the Samsung Group was granted a presidential pardon on Friday, the most recent instance in South Korea’s lengthy history of pardoning businessmen who have been found guilty of corruption...

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...