South Korea

Five Americans were freed from Iran after some $6 billion once frozen in South Korea reached Qatar.

The victim, according to arrest warrants, was starved and beaten for weeks before she eventually died. Her identity has not been released.

South Korea has expressed “deep concern and regret” over a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David to encourage the U.S. allies, who have been thawing their frosty relationship, to cooperate more given their shared concerns about aggression from China and North Korea.

North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has again toured munitions factories and has ordered a drastic increase in production of missiles and other weapons.

A lioness escaped from a farm in South Korea, touching off an emergency search before she was killed by a hunter Monday.

Condemning the allies’ expanding drills as invasion rehearsals, Kim has used them as a pretext to further accelerate his weapons demonstrations, which have included the testing-firings of more than 100 missiles since the start of 2022

Suga, the K-pop superstar rapper/singer/songwriter, has become the third member of BTS to begin South Korea’s compulsory military service.

South Korea is preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of scouts from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, scouting officials said Monday.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has overturned the impeachment of the public safety minister ousted over a Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, Seoul.

A New Zealand tourist remembers the moment an American soldier ran across the heavily-fortified border between South Korea and North Korea.

The launches came as the U.S.-led United Nations Command tries to secure the release of a U.S. soldier who fled to North Korea from the South Korean side of a border village Tuesday afternoon.

Congratulations– or chughahaeyo– are in order for a panda mother at the Everland Zoo in South Korea, after she gave birth to twins on July 7.

Before he founded booking platform Yanolja, Lee Su Jin started his hospitality career as a “love hotel” janitor. Now, he has a net worth of $1.2 billion.

A bilateral consulting group of South Korean and U.S. officials has met in Seoul to discuss strengthening their nations’ deterrence capabilities against North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats.

South Korean rescuers have pulled nine bodies from a flooded tunnel where around 15 vehicles were trapped in muddy water, as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes across the country.

Three people were killed Saturday after landslides caused by torrential downpours buried their houses in two central towns, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said in a report.

Ai Bao gave birth to her healthy cubs last Friday at Everland park near Seoul.

South Korea says North Korea has launched a long-range ballistic missile toward the North’s eastern waters.