South Korea plans to issue a travel ban for an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to intensifying fighting between government and rebel forces in the country, the foreign ministry said Friday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Friday with his counterparts in South Korea and Japan, vowing to strengthen military ties with both countries amid regional security concerns, according to their respective defense ministries.

South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane while awaiting takeoff at Busan's Gimhae International Airport, with some eyewitness accounts leading to speculation that a portable power bank may have caused the blaze.

South Korean Constitutional Court has approved the spy agency chief and top security adviser as witnesses to testify at the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol, a court official said on Friday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country’s first leader to be indicted, less than two weeks after he was the first to be detained

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stormed a Seoul court early Sunday following its decision to ...

White House, addressing concerns at Seoul, says Washington’s demand for North Korea to denuclearize is unchanged after Trump seems to recognize

South Korea has decided to make its crypto crime task force into a permanent investigative unit, an official said today.

The East Asian country posted 240,000 births last year, according to preliminary estimates, boosting the country's fertility rate to 0.75 from 0.72 in 2023. A fertility rate of 2.1 births expected per woman's lifetime is considered necessary to sustain a population.

At first glance, "The Recruit" may look like your standard espionage drama, but beneath its splashy action scenes and quippy one-liners that's not the case. That's as true in Season 2 as it was in Season 1.

CHANGWON, South Korea -- Watching images of raucous street protests in Seoul on his smartphone, author Chun Hyun-woo's eyes are drawn to the young men in the crowds yelling for South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be returned to office.