Lee became president last year after the impeachment of his conservative successor Yoon Suk Yeol, who tried to shut down the legislature and seize emergency powers in a six-hour coup. Lee was elected on a promise to rebalance South Korea’s foreign policy by engaging with China and to attempt to restart dialogue with North Korea.

It would not be an Olympic Games opening ceremony without at least one blunder but in the land of the Tricolore, Paris provided us with three. Games organisers offered a “deep apology” for introducing South Korea as North Korea, the Olympic flag was ...

In the global export market, reaching **700 billion dollars (approximately 1,011 trillion Korean won)** is a dream milestone. Excluding the Netherlands, where intermediary trade accounts for half of its exports,

SEOUL, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Japan should refrain from flying the "Rising Sun" flag on a warship in a fleet review planned in South Korea next week, a North Korean propaganda website said on Friday, joining South Koreans in the latest spat over the countries ...

South Korean protesters adopted United States symbols and slogans to signal their support in the country’s political crisis. The supporters of ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol have found common cause with conservatives in the U.S., drawing ...