On Dec. 3, 2024 at 10:23 p.m., South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law for the first time since 1980. Within hours, chaos began to unfold as police scuffled with protesters ...

South Korea’s economic growth has sputtered to a snail’s pace. Its income gap is wider than ever. Its suicide rates are among the highest, and its birthrates the lowest, in the world.

South Korea’s leader on Thursday said he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the “national emergency” of the country’s infamously low birth rate as it grapples with a ...

South Korea’s rise from post-war destitution, to become the world’s 12th-largest economy, was driven by polluting heavy industry and fossil fuels. Perhaps predictably, ...

South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s ...

North Korea releases video claiming to be of ICBM test 02:26. North Korea on Tuesday accused the United States of a "hostile military act" after a US Navy submarine docked in arch rival South ...

South Korean exit polls project liberal Lee Jae-myung as presidential election winner 03:22. Seoul, South Korea — Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president of South Korea in ...

Banners showing South Korea’s two main presidential candidates Lee Jae-myung, left, and Kim Moon-soo, right. The June 3 election outcome will have an impact on the country’s foreign policy.

Netflix Inc said on Tuesday it will invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to produce Korean TV series, movies and unscripted shows, doubling its investment in the market ...

South Korea’s probes of Yoon and wife: search for truth or ‘political revenge’? The new ruling party has passed bills to investigate Yoon’s martial law declaration, former first lady and ...