SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced “serious concern” over what they described as Seoul’s failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for widespread human rights violations tied to decades of mass overseas adoptions.

South Korean authorities are making an increasingly frantic effort to stop the won currency sliding to lows not seen since early 2009 during the depths of the global financial crisis.

SEOUL (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. would charge a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea as part of an agreement to avoid even higher levies. The deal includes a South Korean investment of $350 billion in the U.S., but ...

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has passed a bill mandating specialized court panels for cases involving rebellion, treason and foreign subversion.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said early Wednesday that he would soon lift the martial law he imposed during a tense night of political drama in which troops surrounded parliament and lawmakers voted to reject military rule.

I was born in South Korea and have gone back to visit every year. Skip Seoul to see some of my favorite lesser-known cities, like Suwon and Incheon.

Thirty-one North Korean commandos slipped past American and South Korean sentries on Jan. 17, 1968, cutting through the DMZ fence on a mission to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee. Four days later,

Seoul wants to join the undersea naval elite – and has received the blessing of US President Donald Trump to do just that.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited multiple arms factories and instructed the expansion of missile and artillery shell production capabilities, according to state media reports on the 26th. Kim Jong-un,