Lee Yong-soo, an outspoken South Korean victim of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, urged the government on Wednesday to proactively intervene in securing compensation from Japan.

The 96-year-old victim made the call in an interview with Yonh…

South Korea’s first indigenous military spy satellite launched in December has passed a combat suitability evaluation, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday, in a feat bolstering the country’s space reconnaissance capabilities against Nort…

The ruling party and opposition parties locked horns Wednesday as a parliamentary committee held a hearing over the proposed impeachment of a prosecutor related to first lady Kim Keon Hee’s alleged stock manipulation scheme.

Kim Young-cheol, a senio…

South Korea will confer state medals and awards on 121 late independence fighters, including those who were based in Cuba, to honor their courage in the resistance movement against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, the veterans m…

Police join forces with local government officials to arrest ‘Bow Ban Mai’ after her husband was arrested for selling methamphetamine, and his wife took over because customers were so impressed that they followed her home to buy more.

Police from Ba…

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Wednesday pledged to take stern measures against attempts to obstruct junior doctors’ return to hospitals.

Cho’s remarks came as lists of junior doctors who decided to return to work were circulating online, with the…

Lee Yong-soo, an outspoken South Korean victim of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, urged the government on Wednesday to proactively intervene in securing compensation from Japan.

The 96-year-old victim made the call in an interview with Yonh…

South Korea added more than 100,000 jobs for the first time in three months in July, but jobs in the construction sector fell by the most in 11 years amid a slowdown in the industry, data showed Wednesday.

The number of employed people came to 28.86…