South Korean lawmakers have passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter have observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a ...

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, ...

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of insurrection over his botched 2024 power grab where he imposed martial law. Prosecutors had ...

China and South Korea have discussed resuming joint maritime search-and-rescue drills that have been suspended for about 15 years, according to the South’s Ministry of National Defense. Working-level ...

Sometimes words betray those using them by conveying a quite different message from that intended. Insisting that something is true when observers suspect it is not can actually undermine one’s ...

SEOUL — South Korean officials found themselves scrambling on Tuesday morning after waking up to a social media post from President Donald Trump announcing a fresh hike in tariffs on their country.

President Trump announced Monday that he’s hiking tariffs against South Korea because the Korean Legislature has failed to enact a trade agreement reached with the US nearly six months ago. “South ...

The economy expanded 1.5% in the October to December period from a year earlier. On a quarterly basis, gross domestic product contracted 0.3%, marking the steepest slowdown since the fourth quarter of ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung speaks at a welcome banquet for Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 15, 2025. Credit: Facebook/ Lee Jae-myung On January 21, during a New ...

SEOUL, Jan 18 (Reuters) - South Korea will seek favourable terms for U.S. tariffs on imports of memory chips, a presidential office spokesperson said at a televised briefing on Sunday. The country ...

Tokyo — The leaders of Japan and South Korea have shown an unusual level of harmony, banging out a drum set duet to K-pop hits during a summit on Tuesday. The leaders, whose nations have had tense ...