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Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s leading carmaker, voted on Tuesday in favor of a tentative wage deal reached with the management …

Japanese civic groups said Tuesday that a South Korea-Japan deal on Tokyo’s wartime sex slavery is insufficient to heal the pains of Korean victims, …

Following a number of public health disasters this year, including the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, South Korea’s Health Ministry announced …

The South Korean government has been striving to curb violence in various corners of society, including at schools, homes, workplaces and online. The Korea …

Braving social bias and ostracism, Kim Hak-soon, a South Korean comfort woman, took to the podium in 1991 to testify about her wartime forced prostitution …

Japan on Monday expressed its apology and contrition for its colonial-era sexual enslavement of Korean women, and agreed to provide 1 billion yen ($8.3 …

More than 8,300 places on the Korean Peninsula have been identified as wartime forced labor sites during Japanese colonial rule, a South Korean commission said …

South Korea and Japan reached a landmark deal on Monday to resolve the issue of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War …

Marine Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Lee Sang-hoon instructed his troops to maintain tight combat readiness as he inspected the defense postures of the two …

Japanese prosecutors indicted a South Korean man for the suspected bombing of a public restroom at a Tokyo war shrine last month, news reports said Monday. The …