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It was almost a no-brainer for Park Na-hyun, a 26-year-old female student, to join the military. Having grown up in a family with a “disciplinary” father …

On an ordinary weekday morning, throngs of executives line up by rank at the lobby of a sprawling glass building in Seoul that houses the headquarters of one …

South Korea will transfer a South Korean former sex slave in China, who has suffered serious injuries due to an accident, to her home country next week to …

Former Brig. Gen. Yoon Han-doo recalls the day when South Korean corvette Cheonan was struck by a North Korean torpedo on March 26, 2014. The retired general …

More than 10 North Koreans working at a restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea this week, Seoul’s unification ministry said Friday. …

On July 27, 1953, the three-year Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Nearly 63 years later, inter-Korean tensions are at their highest point …

North Korea is stepping up efforts to glorify leader Kim Jong-un in the run-up to the ruling party’s landmark congress in May which would focus on …

President Park Geun-hye will meet with her Norwegian counterpart, Erna Solberg, in Seoul next week to discuss bilateral ties, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday. The …

After North Korea briefly mentioned talks in a statement earlier this week, local observers are split between retaining the current hardline approach and being …

Whenever former military officer Kim Jung-wook receives a letter from the Army requiring him to join a military drill as reservist, the 28-year-old office …