The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

Lots of men running around a field scoring goals ...OK. Just the kind of thing wanted at a football tournament. One man running across a field with a political message. Not on.

'Important evidence' has also been passed on to the authorities

South Korea has extradited to New Zealand a woman suspected of murdering two children whose bodies where discovered in suitcases in Auckland this year, South Korea's justice ministry said on Tuesday.

The move comes after President Yoon Suk-yeol presided over a cabinet meeting to discuss invoking strike-busting laws.

South Korea's government will decide on Tuesday whether to take the unprecedented step of invoking tough strike-busting laws to end a six-day stoppage by truck drivers which is hurting the economy, the presidential office said.

South Korea has extradited a murder suspect to New Zealand two months after she was arrested over her possible connection to the bodies of two long-dead

South Korea has extradited a 42-year-old murder suspect to New Zealand two months after she was arrested over her possible connection to the bodies of two long-dead children found in abandoned suitcases in August

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned of an unprecedented joint response with allies if North Korea goes ahead with a nuclear test, and urged China to help dissuade the North from pursuing banned development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

The Baekje kingdom was one of the earliest states on the Korean Peninsula (18 BEC to 660 CE), and UNESCO’s Baekje Historic Areas offer a unique testimony of its history, culture and legacy. Located in South Korea’s Midwest, the kingdom was at the crossroads of exchanges of art and Buddhist…