A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service.

A South Korean man who ate to the point of obesity in an attempt to dodge the army has avoided prison after he pledged to take up his mandatory military service.

North Korea has cut power lines installed by South Korea to supply electricity to a now-shuttered joint industrial park in ...

South Korea held its own memorial event for victims of forced labor during World War II, sidestepping a Japanese-organized event amidst ongoing tensions. The diplomatic incident arose over a disputed ...

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -After boycotting a memorial event organised by Tokyo, South Korea held its own on Monday to ...

South Korea faces the mounting threat of North Korea using nuclear weapons as the two countries enter a “new Cold War,” the chair of Seoul National University’s security research center said Friday.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to another all-time high. The Dow added 1% ...

South Korea's main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was cleared on Monday of charges that he forced a witness to commit ...

in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Negotiators gathered in Busan, South Korea, on Monday in a final push to create a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been acquitted on charges he persuaded a witness to lie in court to ...

South Korean prosecutors requested on Monday a five-year jail term for Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee over actions ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s government said Saturday it will not attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island ...