South Korea

The Korean Air Force's aerobatic flight team plans to participate in a biennial international air show in Australia next year for the first time, officials said Friday.

Shipments from major ports and cement production sites are recovering after days of disruptions over the truckers' strike, the government said Saturday, as the walkout appears to be losing steam in the face of a tough government stance.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Harvard Crimson, the oldest college newspaper in the U.S., has elected Cara Chang, the second Korean president in the paper's nearly 150-year history, to take lead starting January.

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo met with Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi and discussed ways to expand energy and resource cooperation during his visit to the African country, Han's office said Thursday.

The Seoul city government will install more smoking booths in Han River parks to minimize damage from secondhand smoke exposure, officials said Tuesday.

Unionized workers at Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in Seoul, went on a strike Wednesday, but few subway disruptions were reported during the morning rush hour, as replacement workers were mobilized.

Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jung-sik made it clear that the government will not accept demands by striking truckers to permanently offer a basic wage system, saying such an arrangement has not been proven to be effective during the past three years it was implemented. At a press conference for foreign journalists here on Tuesday, Lee said laborers […]

Korea's veterans ministry has chosen a late British colonel as next month's Korean War hero for his contribution to the success of a major evacuation operation during the 1950-53 conflict, officials said Wednesday.

Korea has eased travel advisories for 24 countries, including the United States, Britain and Germany, to the lowest level in line with the government's latest COVID-19 guidelines, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

In a video played to promote Busan's bid to host the World Expo 2030 at Tuesday's General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the international body that supervises the exhibitions, RM, the leader of K-pop boy band BTS, put forward climate change as one of the pressing issues for humanity. Comparing the current situation with the one […]

The ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Tuesday called on striking cargo truck drivers to return to work, saying they are holding people "hostage" with their walkout.

The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) tabled a motion, Wednesday, demanding President Yoon Suk-yeol to dismiss Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min, holding him accountable for the Itaewon crowd crush on Oct. 29, which killed 158 people enjoying Halloween festivities in the bustling entertainment district of Seoul. However, the […]

Korea's Air Force said Tuesday it will participate in a U.S.-led multinational humanitarian operation in Guam, an effort to enhance its airlift and other operational capabilities.

President Yoon Suk-yeol said any new nuclear test by North Korea will be met with an international response "not seen in the past" and called on China to play a greater role to deter the North's provocations.

Busan Metropolitan City has unveiled an official roadmap for becoming the country's first official English-friendly city, where usage of the language will be encouraged and speakers will be better catered to. The Creative Education Division under the city government's Youth and Industrial-Academic Support Bureau revealed the plan in detail on Monday.

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Two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered Korea's air defense identification zone (KADIZ) without notice Wednesday, prompting the Air Force to scramble fighters to the scene, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that excessive use of force by police to break up a strike could be illegal, ending a decadelong compensation suit over a violent strike by SsangYong Motor workers more than a decade ago.

The government plans to revise the controversial act on serious industrial accidents as it seeks to shift the focus of workplace safety policy from punishment to self-regulation and prevention, officials said Wednesday.

The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) threatened Tuesday to impeach the interior minister over the Itaewon crowd crush should President Yoon Suk-yeol reject a no-confidence motion the party plans to put forward this week.

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Tuesday appealed to members of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) to award the 2030 World Expo to the southern city of Busan. Han delivered a presentation on South Korea's bid to host the expo at the 171st General Assembly of the BIE, an intergovernmental body in charge of overseeing the Expo, in Paris.

Unionized workers at Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in Seoul, went on a strike Wednesday, causing some service disruptions during the evening rush hour. Allied labor unions of Seoul Metro, representing some 13,000 workers, or 80 percent of the firm's entire workforce, kicked off the walkout early Wednesday morning, one day after […]

The prosecution on Tuesday demanded five years in prison for a man accused of confining his girlfriend and forcing her to eat dog feces.

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Unionized workers at Seoul Metro will go on strike on Wednesday after negotiations with the operator of the Seoul subway system failed to resolve disputes over downsizing, officials said Tuesday. A group representing two major unions of the capital's subway system said that final talks fell through earlier in the day.

South Korea on Wednesday named new heads of the Marine Corps and the Army's Special Warfare Command in a regular reshuffle that affected scores of general-grade officers, the defense ministry said.

President Yoon Suk-yeol signed an executive order on Tuesday to get unionized truckers to return to work, just days after he voiced concerns that their strike would cause serious damage to the nation's logistics, construction and other industries. The decision, which came into effect immediately, drew a backlash from labor unions and opposition parties […]

The Administrative Appeals Commission is expected to decide Wednesday whether the presidential office should disclose information about President Yoon Suk-yeol's off-the-book funds as demanded by a civic group.

Korea invoked a return-to-work order on truckers of the cement industry, the finance minister said Tuesday, pointing out their on-going strike weighs down on the national economy.

Unionized workers at Seoul Metro reached an agreement with the management on a corporate restructuring plan Thursday, effectively ending a strike that caused some subway service disruptions in the capital region, officials said.