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Prosecutors on Wednesday called in aides of two ruling party heavyweights for questioning in search of a breakthrough in a graft probe whose neutrality is …

South Korean voters in four parliamentary constituencies headed to polling stations in four cities on a drizzly Wednesday, in elections marred by a graft …

A man and a woman who attempted to commit suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning have called firefighters for help, police said Wednesday.   The man, 32, …

South Korean Ambassador to China Kim Jang-soo said Wednesday that an “emotional solidarity” between Seoul and Beijing is deepening as more people …

Over 600 residents near a U.S. live-fire range in South Korea’s inter-Korean border town staged a protest Wednesday over decades-long damages caused by …

North Korea has killed 15 senior officials this year, two South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday, in the latest public executions in the communist country.   …

South Korea Wednesday rejected an application by the two local umbrella labor unions to visit North Korea to discuss a football friendly in Pyongyang, citing …

South Korea on Wednesday launched the process to select a company to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing over 300 people, with the bidding open to all …

A 30-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly strangling her toddler to death, police said.   The woman, identified only by her surname Kim, …

A group of victims of Japan’s war crimes blasted the United States Wednesday for inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to address its Congress …