The Latest Breaking News from Seoul

Heaviest rainfall in 80 years submerges homes and metro system, triggers landslides and knocks out power in capital.

Heavy rains have drenched South Korea’s capital region and killed at least seven people

Yoon Suk-yeol will not meet US House speaker in move critics say aims to avoid antagonising China as tensions in the Taiwan strait simmer

South Koreans may soon be able to carry a device inside their own bodies in the form of a bespoke tattoo that automatically alerts them to potential health problems, if a science team's project bears fruit. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the city…

E-commerce giant Coupang is facing accusations that its success is built on the exploitation of workers.

SEOUL -- South Korea's Foreign Affairs Ministry has submitted an opinion to the country's top court explaining the new administration's efforts to resolve a lawsuit involving Japanese companies and former wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula -- an issue that has deeply divided the two nations -- a source…

South Korea's biggest ever arms deal will make it a major supplier of weapons flooding into Europe since the Ukraine war began, with sales to NATO-member Poland involving more than 1,600 tanks and howitzers, and nearly 50 fighter jets.

South Korea is pouring resources into its strategy of deterring any North Korean nuclear attack by preparing for preemptive strikes if necessary, a strategy some experts say may exacerbate their arms race and risks miscalculation during a conflict.

Under a split-top mountain on the Japanese island of Sado lies a network of centuries-old mines that have sparked a new diplomatic row with South Korea. Some of the gold and silver mines of Sado, off Japan's west coast, are believed to have started operating as early as the 12th…