The U.S. ally has been without a permanent leader since late last year, when Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached over his botched ...

North Korea has detained shipyard officials responsible for a recent major accident during the launch of a new warship, state media said. Chongjin shipyard's chief engineer, head of hull ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Ordering coffee in South Korea? Not if your name is Lee Jae-myung. Starbucks customers in the East Asian democracy have been barred from using the names of South Korea’s ...

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff's public affairs director, Lee Sung-jun, said intelligence agencies of South Korea and the United States have been tracking and monitoring the launch movements ...

Hyundai is shutting down a production line at its Ulsan plant in Korea, where the IONIQ 5 and Kona EV are built. Although it’s only for a few days, the move comes as the automaker faces slower ...

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Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

South Korean presidential candidates, from left, Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party, Kwon Young-kook of the Democratic Labor Party, Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party and Lee Jae-myung of ...

With the surge in South Korea's biotech sector, driven by a series of billion-dollar licensing deals in early 2025 and the announcement of a new fund to support high-tech industries, the agreement ...

Shortly thereafter they fled from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly known as North Korea. Ms. Kim gave testimony to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday during a meeting convened ...

According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea’s nonmarital birthrate stood at 3.9 percent in 2022 — far below the OECD average of 41 percent that year.