Lee Jae-myung has been declared South Korea's new president after a snap election triggered by the impeachment of his predecessor. Lee's vi...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested on charges of insurrection following his declaration of martial law in December 2024...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will skip the first hearing of his impeachment trial citing safety concerns. The Constitutio...

South Korea's anti-corruption agency has requested police assistance to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a standoff with pres...

South Korea's anti-corruption agency has obtained court-issued warrants to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his office, ...

South Korea experienced six hours under martial law after President Yoon Suk Yeol accused pro-North Korean forces of plotting against the g...

A 22-year-old man in North Korea was publicly executed in 2022 for listening to and sharing K-pop music and South Korean films, according t...

The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and busines...

Billionaire Lee Jae-yong, who was convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January last year, will be "reinstated" to give him a chance to ...

"Hitler," "beast," and "parasite" are some of the choicer insults leveled by both camps. Some are even calling it "The Squid Game Election,...

Park became South Korea's first woman president in 2013, casting herself in the role of the daughter of the nation, incorruptible and behol...

Propofol is normally a medical anaesthetic but is also sometimes used recreationally, and an overdose of the drug was given as the cause of...

The Lee family expects to pay more than $10.8 bn in taxes related to inheritance.

A survey by Ipsos, a global market research and a consulting firm, of people across 26 countries finds unemployment as the top issue around...

South Korea's economic growth, which hit 2.8 percent in both 2015 and 2016, is expected to further slow to 2.6 percent this year, according...

The Berlin-based anti-graft organisation has used World Bank data, the World Economic Forum and other institutions to rank 176 countries by...

The news Tuesday on Ri Yong Gil marks yet another blunder for South Korean intelligence officials, who have often gotten information wrong ...