More than 300 South Koreans who were detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US state of Georgia last week are due to arrive home on Friday.
Their return comes as the country's president and Hyundai's chief executive have (...)
A South Korean woman has been acquitted after a court revisited her decades-old conviction for biting off the tongue of a man during an alleged sexual attack.
Choi Mal-ja was 18 when she was convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 10 (...)
The detention of hundreds of South Korean nationals after a immigration raid on a factory in Georgia last week was an "unjust infringement" on the rights of South Korean people and businesses operating in the United States, the Asian nation's (...)
A South Korean worker who witnessed a massive immigration operation at a car factory in Georgia has told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site and arrested hundreds.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, was at the (...)
South Korea's government says it has reached an agreement with the US to release its citizens detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.
The chief of staff of South Korea's president said a chartered plane would be sent to (...)
More than 300 South Korean workers detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will be released and returned home, the South Korean government announced Sunday.
Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff for President Lee Jae Myung, said (...)
The old-fashioned train has become a symbol of Kim's dynasty and his secluded nation. It has also long been the subject of intrigue, carrying generations of the Kim family across the country and on rare international trips.
North Korean state media (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un examined a "newly inaugurated" missile production line on Sunday before a planned trip to Beijing to witness a massive military parade alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During Sunday's inspection, Kim (...)
SEOUL — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and the Korea Heritage Service signed an Executive Program of Cooperation on Thursday at the National Palace Museum of Korea in Seoul, further strengthening bilateral collaboration in the preservation of (...)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will attend a military parade in Beijing next week alongside Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's foreign ministry has said, in what will be a landmark visit.
This comes days after US President Donald Trump said he (...)
South Korea has passed a bill banning the use of mobile phones and smart devices during class hours in schools — becoming the latest country to restrict phone use among children and teens.
The law, which comes into effect from the next school year (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test launch of two new air defense missiles, state media reported Saturday, as tensions escalated on the Korean Peninsula following a border incident and ongoing U.S.–South Korean military drills.
The (...)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Saturday to set aside historical grievances and deepen cooperation on shared challenges, marking their first bilateral summit since Lee took office.
The two (...)
On a blistering morning earlier this week, an unusually large crowd had gathered at Imjingang Station — the last stop on Seoul's metropolitan subway line that inches the closest to North Korea.
There were dozens of activists and police officers, (...)
An alleged cryptocurrency scammer's five years on the run ended after he was arrested for littering near a train station in Seoul, police said Friday.
Police said they only intended to arrest the man for throwing a cigarette butt, but they got (...)
A Chinese national in California has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shipping firearms and ammunition to North Korea.
North Korean officials paid Shenghua Wen around $2 million (€1.7 million) to ship two containers of weapons and other (...)
South Korea's Supreme Court has rejected a US composer's allegation that the producers of the inescapably catchy children's song Baby Shark plagiarized his work, ending a six-year-long legal battle.
The court upheld two lower court verdicts that (...)
North Korea has ridiculed South Korea's attempts to restart dialogue, while denying that it has removed propaganda loudspeakers from the border as Seoul has suggested.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed on Thursday (...)
The wife of South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery.
Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul on (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to discuss their deepening ties and war efforts against Ukraine, both countries' state media said Wednesday.
The phone call comes as Putin gets set to meet with (...)
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are (...)
South Korea has started to remove propaganda loudspeakers along its border with North Korea in an effort to reduce tensions, Seoul's military said.
The South's ministry clarified that the move marked a "practical measure aimed at easing tensions", (...)
South Korean prosecutors raided the home of former First Lady Kim Keon Hee on Friday as part of an expanding investigation into corruption allegations, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The search, led by Special Counsel Min Joong-ki's team, also (...)
South Korea's ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted Saturday on new criminal charges tied to his controversial declaration of martial law, further intensifying the legal challenges facing the conservative former leader three months after his (...)
Four people have died and more than 1,300 evacuated as torrential rain pounds South Korea, with authorities warning that the unseasonal deluge will continue.
Among those killed were two men in their 80s. Authorities believe one of them was trying to (...)
