The United States has extended its travel restriction for North Korea by another year, the State Department said Wednesday, citing a “serious” risk to its citizens of arrest and long-term detention in the reclusive state.

The department posted on th…

Sport climbing medal hopeful Seo Chae-hyun qualified for the women’s combined event final at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, making up enough ground in the lead portion of the competition after struggling in bouldering earlier in the week.

Seo tied …

The number of people who killed themselves in Korea reached 6,375 as of May, a whopping 10.1 percent increase from the same period last year. The country already infamous for having the highest suicide rate among OECD members took a step closer to th…

Police are looking into a fax threatening to blow up Seoul City Hall and other major institutions, though no signs of explosives have been found so far, officials said Thursday.

The Namdaemun Police Station said it received the report of the fax, wh…

Amid Korea’s declining birthrate and aging population, 100 caregivers from the Philippines arrived in Seoul for a six-month pilot program to commence next month. If the program proves successful, the government plans to expand the initiative to 1,200…

South Korean stocks ended a two-day rebound after the global crash as investor sentiment was dampened by lingering U.S. recession woes and the sluggish performance of big tech firms. The local currency slightly fell against the U.S. dollar.

The benc…

One hundred Filipina child care workers entered the country Tuesday to participate in the pilot foreign caregiver program pushed jointly by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

They are scheduled to provide chi…

South Korea’s leading online gaming firm Nexon Co. said Thursday its net profit soared 63 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier on robust sales of its franchise games.

Its net profit came to 350.4 billion won (US$254.6 million) for the A…