South Korean stocks traded slightly lower late Friday morning as the Bank of Korea froze its key rate for the 10th consecutive session.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index had dropped 3.66 points, or 0.14 percent, to 2,703.30 as of 11:20…

South Korea has been reelected to the respective executive boards of the World Food Program (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the 2025-27 period, the foreign ministry said Friday.

South Korea retained its seats at the electio…

Opposition lawmakers called on President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday to personally apologize for his party’s defeat in this week’s parliamentary elections and hold a meeting with opposition leader Lee Jae-myung.

The opposition bloc, led by the main oppo…

South Korean stocks dipped more than 0.9 percent Friday on concerns over the government’s corporate value-up program following the general elections and weak foreign purchase sparked by the strong dollar. The Korean won sharply fell to the lowest poi…

A conservative People Power Party lawmaker-elect, who clinched an attention-getting victory in one of Seoul’s progressive strongholds in this week’s general election, said Friday his party should show a flexible attitude toward the opposition bloc’s …

South Korea and Britain will jointly host a summit on artificial intelligence (AI) in May, the presidential office said Friday.

The AI Seoul Summit, scheduled for May 21-22, is a follow-up to the AI Safety Summit held in England last November with t…