South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defense minister, breaking with a tradition of appointing retired military generals.

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South Korea on Wednesday switched off loudspeakers that had been broadcasting K-pop songs, news and other propaganda into North Korea for the past year — one of the first concrete steps taken by ...

While the recent executive orders on nuclear energy is a good start, US-South Korea nuclear cooperation would help it revive ...

The directive is aimed at reusing now-abandoned property in northern Gyeonggi-do, South Korea’s most populous province, that ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for ...

South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung holds a telephone call with China’s leader Xi Jinping from the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, June 10, 2025.

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung named veteran lawmaker Ahn Gyu-back as the country's first civilian defence minister in ...

South Korea’s financial regulator plans to investigate transaction fees charged by domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, aiming to reduce trading costs for users, according to local media. South ...

South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda along the inter-Korean border, marking the new liberal government’s first concrete step toward easing ...

South Korea's newly elected President Lee Jae-myung took office last week Image: ANTHONY WALLACE/Pool via REUTERS Relations between China and South Korea have improved since a 2017 rift over a US ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's military shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda along the inter-Korean border on Wednesday, marking the new liberal government's first ...