Contenders for South Korea's presidency kicked off their campaigns on Monday, vowing to unify a deeply polarised society and ...

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South Korea's conservatives made another about-face on Saturday and reinstated their nominee, just hours after dropping him ...

Families of victims of December’s devastating plane crash in South Korea have filed a complaint ... The detention comes weeks after investigators first attempted to arrest President Yoon Suk ...

South Korea's three-week campaign for the June 3 presidential election officially starts, two months after the Constitutional Court upheld the National Assembly's impeachment of President Yoon Suk ...

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The U.S. is scheduled to have a meeting with South Korea later this week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Trade Ministers' meeting. ** Among index heavyweights ...

and is now South Korea's conservative hopeful against frontrunner Lee Jae-myung of the opposition Democratic Party. Han and Kim struggled for unity in the past week and had held a series of failed ...

Japan is watching South Korea’s presidential race with cautious optimism as Democratic Party candidate and presidential front runner Lee Jae-myung signals a potential shift towards closer trade ...

Assassination fears have roiled South Korea’s highly charged presidential race in a new development that observers warn is reminiscent of darker, more turbulent times in the country’s ...

AP/Lee Jin-man SEOUL — South Korea is facing an abrupt shift to liberal from conservative leadership with barely three weeks to go in an election campaign that underscores the deep split in a society ...

“I must be a president who ensures the people of South Korea live well.” Mr Kim was picked by the party on May 3, only to have his nomination cancelled a week later as party bigwigs sought to ...