South Korea is chasing a coal-free future in efforts to slash carbon emissions, an ambitious goal for the fossil ...

Seoul — South Korea's president vowed Monday to "completely overhaul" the country's approach to extreme weather from climate change after at least 40 people were killed by recent flooding and ...

Hong Suk-hui was waiting on the shore of South Korea's Jeju Island when the call came. His fishing boat had capsized. Just two days earlier, the vessel had ventured out on what he had hoped would be a ...

STORY: South Korea's climate campaigners rejoiced over winning a significant legal battle Thursday (August 29). A landmark decision from the constitutional court ruled that South Korea's climate ...

South Korea clearly knows how to host global climate events. However, far too often, real action takes a backseat to pageantry. Busan, 2035. The city’s skyline is framed by offshore wind turbines that ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the government to back its climate goals with more concrete plans for action through 2049, handing a partial victory to ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court Chief Justice Lee Jong-seok, center, and other judges sit upon their arrival at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP ...

Korea’s weather agency will add tougher heat alerts next year, including a new “severe” heat wave warning and advisory for tropical nights, as extreme heat becomes more common.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Now, to the fight against climate change. Following a devastating monsoon season, activists in South Korea say, the government is not living up to its ...

A court in South Korea began on Tuesday, the first public hearings for a climate change lawsuit in Asia. The plaintiffs argue that by not effectively tackling climate change, their government is ...

On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march. The sheer turnout of people from all walks of ...