After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said it began in the plane’s tail. Footage aired by local broadcaster YTN shows evacuation slides deployed on both sides of the single-aisle plane, with ...

Yoon shocked the nation late on December 3 when he declared martial law, claiming he needed to safeguard South Korea "from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and eliminate anti ...

How do you say "deepfake," "ASAP" and "digital" in Korean? The fight to keep foreign words from diluting the language ...

Yoon faces life imprisonment or even the death penalty, and the future of South Korea’s politics and democracy hangs in the balance. Some of those politics may feel eerily similar for U.S ...

South Korea is one of Washington’s key security partners in East Asia. South Korea currently has an acting president, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok. Choi has been in ...

UBS Group posted fourth-quarter profit that beat forecasts by a wide margin and said it would buy back up to $3 billion in shares this year if there were no major changes to bank capital rules in ...

Yoon has been resisting arrest in a standoff between his guards and investigators last week, after his failed December 3 power grab plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.

This week, as South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol remained holed up in his presidential compound, thousands of his supporters guarding the site against attempts to arrest him held up ...

Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers who were fighting on behalf of Russia in a Russian border region, South Korea’s intelligence service said, confirming an account from Ukrainian ...

The black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, South Korean officials said Saturday, possibly complicating ...

Yoon’s detention, after a tense standoff outside the presidential residence, marks the latest chapter in a bewildering series of events since his martial law decree.