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U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert kept his upbeat tone in the hours after a shocking knife attack on him by a leftist activist during an event in …

Parents’ anger has been growing over parliament’s failure to pass a bill designed to oblige all day care centers across the country to install surveillance …

The Korea Confederation of Trade Unions has called for a general strike April 24, which the umbrella labor group said would be followed by sporadic, …

Korea faces serious demographic challenges owing to its low birthrate and rapidly aging population. This week, another set of data illustrating the gravity of …

The ruling Saenuri Party Chairman Kim Moo-sung said last week he wished President Park Geun-hye would bring no more lawmakers from the party to fill posts in …

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso once declared in 2005, to the considerable derision of many of his countrymen, that Japan was the only …

As countries around the world mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, three countries in Northeast Asia ― Korea, China and Japan ― face a …

The antigraft bill that passed Tuesday, after much wrangling over the constitutionality of parts of it, is nevertheless a step forward in the country’s fight …

I had forgotten the date. On Sunday, I realized it was the anniversary of the March 1 “Manse” movement. It just came and went. As a member of the …

Last week, former President Lee Myung-bak’s memoir, “The President’s Time,” was No. 10 on Kyobo Bookstore’s overall bestseller list and No. 1 in the …