A new statue symbolizing Korean victims of Japan's forced labor during World War II was installed in front of Yongsan Station in the heart of Seoul on Saturday. During Japan's brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945, requisitioned laborers were gathered ...
North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple land-to-ship missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's military said. South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the projectiles were launched Thursday morning from the North Korean coastal city of ...
Lee Yong-soo's is a poignant saga of abduction from her village at age 16 and ending up on an air base in Taiwan, where she was beaten and tortured until she succumbed.
Abe face-planted by sending back Japan's ambassador to Seoul without resolving the statue issue, one that should never have been made into such a big deal in the first place.
As long as North Korea poses such an acute threat, China's opposition to the THAAD missile defense system is pointless — and highly destructive.
South Korea's next leader faces several daunting challenges.
Seoul AP It was hard to imagine that ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye could get any more unpopular. But that was before an animal rights group accused her of animal abandonment for leaving nine dogs at the presidential palace before returning to her private ...
Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail. Park left the compound in a motorcade of ...
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party said on Monday it and other parties would seek the impeachment of the prime minister, Yonhap News Agency reported after the premier said an investigation into a corruption scandal would not be extended. The move to seek the impeachment ...
Prosecutors said Wednesday they indicted the Lotte Group's founder, his mistress and his three children on embezzlement, tax evasion and other charges, in the latest case highlighting the outsized influence of founding families over South Korean publicly listed companies. Five family members including Lotte's founder, ...
President Park Geun-hye called on North Koreans to abandon their country Saturday and defect, just a day after a soldier walked across the heavily fortified border into the South. In a rare message directly addressed to rank-and-file troops and North Korean citizens, the president invited ...
A South Korean civic group said Wednesday that it has filed an application with Chinese and Dutch groups to have documents related to the "comfort women" listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The group said the application was made with the U.N. Educational, ...
