For decades, the idea that the U.S. would risk war against North Korea to defend South Korea was a given in international ...

Months of uncertainty have battered South Korea’s economy. Without clear leadership, South Korea has struggled to build ties ...

The wildfires in March devastated an area larger than the Los Angeles fire and two-thirds the size of Singapore to become its ...

In June last year, North Korean troops violated the border three times, prompting South Korea to fire warning shots. The ...

This is a rather grim history of dictatorship, punctuated by violence, yet today South Korea has a functioning democracy ...

The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol exposed a vulnerability in South Korean democracy, but also a resilience. Its people were ...

The nation’s top court unanimously upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, clearing the way for the election of a new president.

Together with the president’s previous rounds of levies, the expansive tariffs package will bring the U.S.’s effective tariff ...

With little commonality between the two factions, politics has metastasized into a winner-takes-all where, ultimately, both ...

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office four months after he threw South ...

Estonia's Fermi Energia and South Korea's Samsung C&T Corporation Engineering & Construction Group have signed a teaming ...

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