SEOUL – School’s out for winter vacation. For some students in South Korea, that means all-day private tutoring in Daechi-dong, Seoul’s hagwon mecca, often requiring some logistical support.

On January 30, the Government Public Officials Ethics Committee disclosed the assets of 362 high-ranking public officials who ...

The assets of 25 current and former Blue House secretaries have been made public. Among those disclosed, Johansang Cho, ...

South Korea will accelerate efforts to boost housing supply in the Greater Seoul area, broadening its response to a yearlong rally in apartment prices after a raft of earlier measures to curb ...

Under the initiative, the city aims to reduce the annual volume of general residential waste by 10 litres per person over the next two years — about the same as one standard volume-based trash bag.

Once We Were Us' stays No. 1 in Korea for a third week as 'Choir of God' surges and 'Project Y' enters the top five.

A South Korean court has ruled the 2024 imposition of martial law by then President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for ...

A fire on Friday in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns burned makeshift houses and forced about 260 residents to flee ...

A fire in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns has burned makeshift houses and forced dozens of residents to flee. But no casualties were immediately reported. Officials said much of the ...

Economists expect no rate change due to won's fall and inflation concerns BOK signals end of easing cycle, revises guidance on rate cuts Seoul apartment prices rise, complicating BOK's decision on ...

South Korea’s central bank will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 2.50% on Thursday, as the won's fall has limited room for easing, according to economists in a ‍Reuters poll, who ...

As far as South Korea is concerned, it was the new-build gentrification that played a dominant role for a long time in the capitalist production of space. This has to do with the fact that the country ...