Archive by category National

Sung Young-hoon, 55, a legal expert whose 30-year career has encompassed stints as a district prosecutor, special investigator and attorney, was named to chair …

Hong Yoon-sik, a former vice minister at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, has been named interior minister. Hong, 59, is known as a veteran in …

Choi Young-doo, a father of two children, received an abrupt phone call from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August. He was told that …

Former opposition presidential candidate Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo on Monday announced his plan to form a new party by early February and pledged to build a robust …

The South Korean government Monday mapped out a plan to expand its part-time work scheme in the public sector by 2018, which would increase the public …

On Nov. 12, over 600,000 Korean students took the college entrance exam, known here as the “Suneung” and widely referred to as “the most important test …

The Education Ministry on Sunday announced that it has capped college tuition hikes for next year at 1.7 percent, down from 2.4 percent this year. It marked …

Students who attend public high schools in California in the U.S. will learn about Japan’s sex slavery during World War II starting 2017, according to …

President Park Geun-hye tapped Saenuri Party Rep. Yoo Il-ho to lead the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and double as deputy prime minister in charge of …

Seoul police dispatched a group of investigators to the Philippines to join a probe into the murder of a Korean for the first time amid growing security …