SEOUL--A South Korean court gave three police officers prison sentences on Monday over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween ... crush, one of the biggest peacetime disasters in South Korea ...

By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul South Korea will begin deploying drones at airports in the first half of this year to help prevent bird strikes, part of an overhaul of aviation safety that ...

South Korea sent its fourth homegrown spy satellite to orbit this week in an effort to bolster its ability to keep tabs on its neighbor and adversary North Korea. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched ...

South Korea's Deadly Fires Made Twice as Likely by Climate Change, Researchers Say By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) -South Korea's worst ever wildfires in March were made twice as likely as a ...

SEOUL/WASHINGTON April 25 (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States agreed to craft a trade package aimed at removing new U.S. tariffs before the pause on reciprocal tariffs is lifted in July ...

Further complicating their relationship, the U.S. imposed a 25% tariff on South Korea, later reduced to 10%, as part of Trump’s fluctuating global tariffs unveiled on April 2.

The fires burned an area of 104,000 hectares (257,000 acres) and destroyed 5,000 buildings, constituting the deadliest and largest wildfire disaster in South Korea’s recorded history.

South Korea faces many of the same circumstances. The first round of talks in Washington was similarly inconclusive, and the key issues for Korea—tariffs on auto, auto parts, steel and aluminum ...

South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Monday (April 21, 2025) for the second hearing of his criminal trial to defend himself against insurrection charges over his short ...

The importance of the economic relationship between the U.S. and South Korea was cast into sharp relief last week. South Korea’s Acting President Han Duck-soo was among the first world leaders ...

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 ...

A worker at Hanwha Aerospace in Changwon, South Korea, monitors the progress of a ... decades of governments kicking the can down the road, and I think we're at the point now where we have run ...