The government announced a raft of aviation safety measures after a Jeju Air crash late last year that killed 179 people, ...

With the return of Donald Trump as the president of the United States, South Korean diplomacy is facing unprecedented headwinds. Given Trump’s penchant for a transactional approach to diplomacy ...

The UN civilian aviation agency has dismissed North Korea's request to investigate its claim of South Korean drones infiltrating Pyongyang's airspace last year, a Seoul official said Thursday.

South Korea announced on Thursday that it had successfully tested a new radar system capable of detecting drones from several kilometers away, marking a significant step forward in its defense ...

In February 2025, Google submitted an application seeking approval to transfer South Korea's 1:5,000 scale map data to international servers. This scale—far more detailed than the current 1: ...

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 ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea sent two helicopters to battle a wildfire inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul’s military said Friday, adding it had warned North Korea in ...

As the global economy undergoes disruption due to the Trump administration’s recent tariffs, major export-led economies like South Korea face an urgent need to diversify by tapping into untapped ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

“Our military issued warnings and fired warning shots, and the North Korean soldiers retreated,” a South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff official told reporters. Military officials in Seoul ...