The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

Authorities believe the man, who is in his 50s, began the fire in southeastern Uiseong County

A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse

Supporters and critics of Yoon Suk Yeol take to the streets of the capital Seoul amid ongoing impeachment trial.

Donald Trump's attacks on NATO and the established world order are undermining the confidence of its allies under the US security umbrella, fuelling fears of an eventual proliferation of nuclear weapons, experts told AFP. Since his return to power in January, the US president has criticised the transatlantic alliance, reopened…

Served straight and chilled or in cocktails, the distinctive green bottles of Korea’s national tipple are becoming a familiar sight on UK supermarket shelves

This is not a Korean restaurant, but neither is it not a Korean restaurant

After a week, efforts still continue to contain a fire that killed at least 28 people and destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of land

Fires now 85 per cent extinguished after at least 28 people dead

Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea's worst wildfires.

Rain and cooler temperatures are helping South Korean fire crews as they battle the country’s worst-ever wildfires as the governor of the hardest-hit region called for overhauling response strategies to respond to the climate crisis that he says worsened the disaster

Overnight rain helped douse some of South Korea's worst-ever wildfires, authorities said Friday, as the death toll from the unprecedented blazes raging for nearly a week reached 28.