South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defense minister, breaking with a ...

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung named veteran lawmaker Ahn Gyu-back as the country's first civilian defence minister in ...

With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on ...

It has been a turbulent period for South Korean politics, triggered by then President Yoon Suk-yeol’s illegal declaration of ...

We can already see the contours of a “middle power plus” strategy under Lee.

The new president will also need to contend with President Donald Trump’s volatile approach to U.S. allies and his perception that South Korea is a “money machine.” He has demanded that ...

In South Korea, the collective memory of a pro-democracy uprising inspires a new generation to resist authoritarianism.

Asia Pacificcategory· June 19, 2025 North Korea fired multiple-launch rockets from near Pyongyang, South Korea says North Korea fired more than 10 multiple-launched rockets on Thursday morning ...

Kim Gwang-yong, new head of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters at the interior ministry, speaks ...