The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

Country firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia

As bereaved families and friends struggle to make sense of a Halloween crowd crush that killed 156 people in South Korea’s capital, their grief is mixed with anger about officials’ failure to employ crowd controls in a small nightlife district swarmed with tens of thousands of partiers

One ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea’s coast, the first time an apparent test had landed near the its waters

North Korea fired 100 artillery rounds into a maritime "buffer zone" Wednesday, Seoul's military said, hours after Pyongyang launched a series of missile tests including one that landed near South Korean waters. "North Korea fired around 100 artillery rounds from the Kosong area in Kangwon into the 'buffer zone' north…

North Korea fired more than 100 rounds of artillery on Wednesday from its east coast into a military buffer zone established in a military agreement with the South, South Korea's military said.

"It looks like people will be squashed to death," said a person who called police nearly three hours before the first fatality. On Wednesday, the team investigating the incident raided Seoul police.

South Korea’s National Police Agency has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city’s Yongsan district office as it investigates whether official ineptitude contributed to a deadly crowd surge that killed 156 people in the neighborhood of Itaewon

As South Korea mourns the deaths of more than 150 people in a Halloween party crush, many people - even those not directly involved - are dealing with trauma and a search for answers that has at times blamed the victims, a psychiatry expert says.

South Korea later fired three missiles in response to the North. Seoul's President Yoon Suk-yeol called Pyongyang's launch an "effective territorial invasion", the BBC reported. Read on for details: