A tourist bus crash in South Korea has killed 17 people and injured 14 others. Police officer Park Sang-ho said the bus was carrying 31 people — all South Koreans in...

The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South...

A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.

On the evening of July 10, Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, and Hahn Ji-seon, a female Korean friend, were riding a bus near Seoul when a man in the back...

Brides in white wedding gowns and Japanese kimonos joined bridegrooms in black suits and red ties today for one of the biggest mass weddings in a decade — a spectacle...

Four years ago, when she found that she was pregnant by her former boyfriend, Choi Hyong-sook considered abortion. But after she saw the little blip of her baby’s...

Lee Sun-ok fled from North to South Korea to escape chaotic fighting during the Korean War, boarding a ship along with thousands of other people in December 1950. There...

South Korea’s president offered North Korea a “grand bargain” Monday in which the North would receive much-needed economic assistance in return for...

South Korea has long felt under-recognized for its many achievements: it built an economic powerhouse from the ruins of a vicious war in just decades and, after years...

The six South Koreans, who are still missing, include an 8-year-old boy. They were camping or fishing on the Imjin River, which flows from the North, enters South Korea...

South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international...

In pursuit of middle-class prosperity, South Koreans have looted their household savings like no other people on Earth. They have collectively binged on private...

North Korea on Thursday seized a stray South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members, ratcheting up tensions after a week of aggressive sabre-rattling from the...

Korean mountaineer Eun Sun Oh reached the summit of the famous Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, on Friday, July 10, 2009. She was leading an expedition including...

U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...

Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...

With his clean white university sweatshirt and shiny cellphone, Lee Chang-shik looks the part of a manager at a condominium development company, the job that he held...

when Ms. Choi, 39, was found dead in her apartment on Oct. 2 in what the police concluded was a suicide, her grief-stricken homeland sought an answer to why the actress...

Financial markets in Asia have risen sharply, with the Nikkei gaining 13% in morning trading, and Sydney up 5%.

After the melamine-tainted milk in China found its way to Korea, Seoul responded by improving their food labeling requirements for imported food.