The meeting was low-key, a presentation last month by South Korean officials to about 50 villagers gathered in a community hall on the country’s southeastern coast.

South Korea has long wanted nuclear subs. A new reactor could open a door.

South Korea on Friday unveiled a prototype of its first domestically developed fighter jet. South Korean President Moon Jae-in hailed the KF-X to be the future backbone of the South Korean air force.

South Korea unveils KF-21 fighter jet, joins global elite group of countries

South Korean President Moon Jae-in faced growing public pressure on Wednesday over his COVID-19 vaccine procurement plans as the country struggled to contain a third wave of the pandemic, reporting its second-highest daily tally of cases.

South Korea's Moon under fire for vaccine plans as COVID-19 cases surge

US President-elect Joe Biden dialled US allies, Australia, South Korea and Japan on Thursday as he delivered the message of reassurance to American commitments in the region.

Joe Biden dials Asian Pacific allies, reassures American commitments

South Korea's central bank slashed its growth forecast Thursday, predicting the world's 12th-largest economy will contract 1.3 percent this year

South Korea Central bank cuts 2020 GDP outlook

A spike in new coronavirus cases in South Korea has prompted authorities to reimpose tighter social distancing curbs in Seoul, but that didn`t stop thousands of demonstrators from protesting against President Moon Jae-in`s policies.

Thousands protest against Moon Jae In as South Korea capital scrambles to curb virus resurgence

President Moon Jae-in vowed on Friday to spotlight the plight of South Korea's last few surviving "comfort women", as those forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels are known, in efforts to resolve a dispute with its neighbour over the thorny issue.

South Korea's Moon Jae In to focus on victims in 'comfort women' dispute with Japan

Torrential rain pounded most of South Korea on Sunday, leaving six persons dead and seven others missing, officials said.

Over 360 people left homeless, several riverside structures damaged due to heavy rain | S Korea

In 1948, two separate governments were formed in North and South Korea. North Korea became a dictatorship. South Korea is a democracy. More than 70 years later, both countries are worlds apart.

Gravitas: The Story of the Two Koreas

South Korean President Moon Jae-in was criticised on Thursday for sending condolence flowers to the funeral of a convicted sex offender's mother. Former provincial governor Ahn Hee-jung was once a rising star and came second to Moon in the race for the 2017 Democratic presidential nomination, but was convicted last year of sexual intercourse by abuse of authority after his female assistant accused him of repeatedly raping her.

S Korea's Moon under fire for sending flowers to sex offender's family funeral

South Korea was a success story until the second wave of coronavirus infections hit it. But a series of new clusters in the area around Seoul, the capital, with 56 new cases on Thursday took the national tally to 12,003 and 277 deaths.

Coronavirus and the North: The two issues of South Korea

North Korea has threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement signed in 2018 to reduce tensions, over flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets along the border by the South.

North Korea threatens to halt military agreement with the South over anti-Kim leaflets

South Korea's efforts to mitigate the novel coronavirus crisis turned out to be a big reason as President Moon Jae-in's party got a massive win in the parliamentary elections.

South Korea: Coronavirus success story guides Moon's party towards massive election win

South Korean President Moon Jae-in invited cast and crew members of the film 'Parasite' led by director Bong Joon-ho to a luncheon meeting at the presidential compound on Thursday (February 20) to congratulate the country's historic wins at the Academy Awards.

'Parasite' director meets South Korean president in Seoul

Hwang Won was on a domestic Korean Air flight from Gangneung to Seoul's Gimpo airport on December 11, 1969, only for the aircraft to be hijacked by a North Korean spy 10 minutes after takeoff and made to land in Pyongyang.

Son of North Korea hijack victim demands return of father

South Korea fired back at Japan over a deepening trade dispute on Friday (August 2), pledging it would not be "defeated again" by its neighbour, laying bare decades-old animosity at the root of a row over fast-track export status.

South Korea's Moon pledges action against Japan's "unfair" trade move

North Korea remembers Kim II-Sung on 25th death anniversary

South Korea said on Wednesday it sacked an army commander and rebuked other senior officers after a North Korean fishing boat piloted by defectors went undetected in South Korean waters for more than two days last month.

South Korea sacks army commander over North Korea defector boat

US President Donald Trump will visit South Korea this weekend after an exchange of letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boosted hopes for a resumption of talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program.

Trump to visit South Korea as Pompeo raises hope for new North Korea talks after letter

South Korea President Moon Jae-in is likely to place a call to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday to discuss the rise in tension in the Korean peninsula region after the recent weapon tests by North Korea.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in expected to call Trump to discuss North Korea's weapon test

South Korea reopened the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the truce village of Panmunjom to the public on Wednesday, a year after a historic summit was held there between the two Korean leaders, Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un.

Guns out, cameras in: Korean truce village lets tourists back in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called on the world to speak in one voice on the issue of terror and thanked South Korean President Moon Jae-in for his country's support.

World has to move beyond talks on terror: PM Modi in South Korea

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits South Korea from February 21 to 22, his 30-hour visit to the North East Asian country will see many engagements with Korean leadership, businesses and other stakeholders.

PM Modi to visit South Korea, will launch India-Korea start-up hub

Act now or risk disaster, world told at UN climate summit After the starkest warnings yet of the catastrophic threat posed by climate change, nations gathered in Poland on Sunday to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming.

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