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Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung on Wednesday called on the two Koreas to work to break their standoff through dialogue and sincerity, building on their joint …

Parties are to begin campaigning for the June 4 local elections Thursday, but their efforts are likely to be toned down compared to previous campaigns. Both …

More than 30 days after the sinking of the ferry Sewol, teachers of Danwon High School ― which lost 250 students to the disaster ― are being recognized as …

The number of foreigners getting medical treatment in Korea rose by 36.9 percent in 2013 from the year before, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. …

Lawmakers are seeking to pass a set of anticorruption bills by June to ensure public safety and eliminate government cronyism to tackle the fallout from the …

How do people meet their future spouses? No matter how many times it is asked, this constitutes just one of the numerous questions that cannot be answered with …

Two labor unions of the nation‘s largest broadcaster KBS on Wednesday began a vote to decide whether to carry out a full-scale strike, calling for their …

Koreans will be allowed to use their i-PIN online identification numbers for offline authentication as well, instead of their resident numbers, the government …

The U.S. State Department issued an updated travel warning for North Korea on Tuesday for the first time in six months in light of the recent arrests and …

The military prosecution has reprimanded one of its staff for demanding a large sum of money from a two-star general whom he had been investigating in a …