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 ...

According to information released by US and South Korean intelligence source, almost 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an offensive ...

Investigators used ladders to climb into President Yoon Suk-yeol’s home after he failed to appear at impeachment trial.

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia. The country is home to almost 52 million people and uses the South Korean won as its currency. Its capital city ...

At a small temple in a city park in Seoul, South Korea, Chung Soon-doek is the head shaman leading a daylong ritual called a “gut” in Korean. She’s dressed in elaborate, bright-red silk robes and a ...

But sadly, that’s not the case. Its threat is always looming. As a result, in certain countries such as South Korea, mandatory military service is a very real requirement — all able-bodied males no ...

Exemptions from military service to dodging conscription are a sensitive domestic issue in the face of an increasingly belligerent North Korea, and as South Korea rethinks its position on the war ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said the rule of law in the country had “completely ...

The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens ...