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South Korea’s national debt rose by 39 trillion won ($35.9 billion) in 2014 from a year earlier as the government engaged in expansionary spending to …

Kim In-cheol, 75, remembers when he barely managed to feed himself in the war-torn country back in the ’60s. Kim, who was in his late 20s at the time, said …

Margaret Jane Edmunds, a late American nurse who founded Korea’s first nursing school in 1903, has been posthumously awarded the Order of Civil Merit by the …

Pyongyang has set a no-sail and no-fly zone in the East Sea since last Wednesday, a government source said Monday, raising concerns over possible North Korean …

Parents of students from a special purpose school held a protest Monday, denouncing Seoul education authorities’ recent announcement that its status may be …

Seoul Prosecutors on Monday requested a preliminary arrest warrant for Sung Woan-jong, chairman of Keangnam Enterprises, on suspicion of fraud and the …

Main opposition party leader Rep. Moon Jae-in upped the ante against his rival party Monday, saying he would attend the hearing for an investigation into an …

South Korean experts Monday denounced the Japanese government for politically using school textbooks as it approved texts intensifying Japan’s claim to …

A 30-year-old South Korean worker has been found dead in a stream at the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou and Chinese police were investigating the cause of …

Prosecutors on Monday sought an arrest warrant for a former construction firm head for allegedly embezzling company funds involved in former President Lee …