Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said.

The historic La Scala opera house in Italy has announced that renowned South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun will take over in 2027 and serve as music director until 2030. Long before K-pop took ...

According to a recent survey of 1,514 South Koreans by the East Asia Institute, a Seoul-based think tank, just 62.6% of South Korean men between the ages of 18 and 29 believe that democracy is the ...

SEOUL — A message on the website of a South Korean agency famed for putting Korean children up for adoption by American families for more than 60 years comes as a shock after reports of widespread ...

Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by FRONTLINE on adoptions from South Korea. The investigation reported ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil, new South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s ...

South Korean lawmakers argue with National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik over the impeachment of acting President Han Duck-soo. Jung Yeon-Je / AFP via Getty Images ...

JUNG YEON-JE / AFP via Getty Images Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual joint military exercises, which are scheduled to last 11 days.

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol urged ever more strengthening of the U.S.-led security alliance against nuclear-armed North Korea on Thursday, drawing cheers from Congress ...

South Korean esports players compete in a match during the Esports Championships East Asia in Seoul in 2021. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images ...

The North Korean regime’s repression of South Korean culture reflects a logic that equates foreign culture with a threat to the regime’s stability. By Seohee Kwak December 18, 2021 Credit: Flickr ...

South Korea was put on edge for a second time on Tuesday when fighter jets took off once again, responding to what military officials initially thought could be another wave of North Korean drones ...