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Seoul’s top educator said Tuesday he will soon go to the Constitutional Court to fight the slander charges leveled against him during last year’s …

Former Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na has donated $100,000 for Nepal earthquake relief, officials said Tuesday.   The Korean Committee for UNICEF, …

Inter-Korean tension has heightened in the first quarter of the year, but local experts anticipate bilateral relations to improve down the road this year, a …

South Korea’s housing market continued to improve in the first quarter of 2015 amid a surge in transactions and rising prices, a report showed …

Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death among teens and young people in South Korea in 2013, with the suicide rate rising over the past decade, a report showed …

The captain of the sunken ferry Sewol was sentenced to a life term for murder at an appeals court here Tuesday.     Overturning a lower court ruling that …

President Park Geun-hye expressed regret Tuesday over the resignation of Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo over a bribery scandal and pledged to root out corruption …

President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday raised questions on special pardons granted by her two predecessors to deceased businessman Sung Woan-jong, calling it …

South Korea urged the United States and Japan Tuesday to assure the security of South Korea in implementing the U.S-Japan defense guidelines, which expand …

South Korea’s global economic network of free trade deals with many other countries will be a strong selling point for participation in a U.S.-led …