SEONGNAM, South Korea — South Korean President-elect Lee Jae-myung has always described his politics as deeply personal, born of the “wretchedness” of his youth. In his last presidential run ...

View post on X 9:10 a.m. South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index and the tech-heavy Kosdaq index both rose more than 1% at Wednesday's market open. Analysts expect South Korean share prices to rise ...

The sun sets over a tidal flat in southwestern South Korea. Tidal flats are a type of ... shoreline and in the shallow water. As the sun rose, the tide retreated until it revealed six miles ...

South Korea’s liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung was expected to win an early presidential election on Tuesday, vote counts and media projections suggested. The victory would cap ...

Mr. Lee cruised to victory on Tuesday after his predecessor pitched the country into chaos with a brief declaration of martial law. Supporters of Lee Jae-myung singing and dancing. Jun Michael ...

Talk of a possible US troop reduction in South Korea is fuelling anxiety in Seoul ahead of the June 3 snap presidential election, with analysts warning that Washington’s shifting defence ...

Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law ...

All the while, South Korea’s economy has suffered ... fall from grace for the former prosecutor turned politician, who rose to prominence for his role in the impeachment of another president ...

The Pentagon pushed back Friday on a Wall Street Journal report that the Trump administration is considering withdrawing thousands of American troops from South Korea, calling the news “not true.” ...

South Korea’s liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president early Wednesday, a victory that would cap months of political turmoil triggered by the stunning but brief ...

Lee, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality and corruption, began his term earlier today, hours after winning a snap ...

As of 6:00 p.m., some 33.8 million voters had cast a ballot, reaching a record-breaking 76.1% of South Korea's 44.4 million eligible voters, according to the National Election Commission.