South Korean stocks rose more than 1 percent to hit a two-week high Monday led by a sharp rebound in top-cap Samsung Electronics shares. The Korean won gained against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 29.16…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was set to receive a briefing from senior South Korean officials on Monday regarding North Korean troops in Russia, according to NATO’s website, with all signs suggesting that the North’s troops may soon b…

Police said Monday they are intensively cracking down on the sale and wearing of police officer costumes during the Halloween celebrations.

The police have been strengthening online monitoring to prevent the indiscriminate distribution and use of fak…

The internal division over whether to appoint a special inspector to look into the possible corruption of the president’s close relatives continues to deepen. After changing his position on the appointment, People Power Party (PPP) leader Han Dong-hoo…

North Korea said Monday that its analysis of the flight log of a drone that crashed in Pyongyang earlier this month showed it took off from a South Korean border island in the Yellow Sea, insisting that the South Korean military is behind what it clai…

South Korea and the United States will hold their “two plus two” talks among the top foreign and defense officials this week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday, amid the heightening tensions with North Korea’s deployment of its troops to Russia.

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