Four of the presidential candidates running in the June 3 election will hold their second televised debate on Friday. The National Election Broadcasting Debate Commission ...

The local currency gained against the U.S. dollar to its strongest level in six-and-a-half months on Thursday amid a wait-and-see attitude surrounding the U.S.-South Korea ...

New Reform Party presidential candidate Lee Jun-seok has made clear that his name will be on the ballot for the June 3 presidential election, refusing the People Power Party’s ...

South Korea’s efforts to have the northwestern islands of Baengnyeong, Daecheong and Socheong designated as UNESCO Global Geoparks have hit a snag due to an objection from ...

Michael Ellis, says the technology race with China is America’s top intel priority.  In a rare interview with U.S. news website Axios on Wednesday, Ellis said the top priority for the CIA's new ...

The government on Thursday convened a meeting of a preparatory committee for the seventh Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) Summit, set for October in the southeastern ...

South Korea and Russia have held consular consultations for the first time in seven years. According to Seoul’s foreign ministry on Wednesday, Yun Joo-seok, chief of ...

Subway trains in Seoul will start running 30 minutes earlier as of August, when the city is shifting the schedule to accommodate early-morning commuters.The Seoul Metropolitan ...

People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo on Thursday unveiled a number of political reform proposals, aiming to differentiate himself from rival Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic ...

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) lost more than one percent Thursday as investors offloaded blue-chip stocks, reflecting overnight losses on Wall ...

The price of Bitcoin has surpassed the 110-thousand-dollar mark for the first time.  According to the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, the world’s most ...

A total of 21 patients suffering from heat-related illnesses were reported on Wednesday alone as the nation experienced unusually hot weather for the month of May. The ...