President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday named Shim Woo-jung, the vice justice minister, to be the new prosecutor general, his office said.

Shim, 53, has been tapped to be the new prosecution chief who will replace Prosecutor General Lee One-seok, accordin…

Park Hye-jeong captured silver in the heaviest weight class in women’s weightlifting Sunday for South Korea’s final medal of the Paris Olympics.

Park finished with the total of 299 kilograms, with 131kg in the snatch and 168kg in the clean and jerk …

Lee Da-bin grabbed a bronze medal in the women’s heaviest weight class in taekwondo Saturday, giving South Korea its third medal in its traditional martial art at the Paris Olympics.

Lee defeated Lorena Brandl of Germany 2-1 (4-2, 5-9, 13-2) in one …

Park Hye-jeong captured silver in the heaviest weight class in women’s weightlifting Sunday for South Korea’s final medal of the Paris Olympics.

Park finished with the total of 299 kilograms, with 131kg in the snatch and 168kg in the clean and jerk …

The day began with much promise, but South Korea ended up with two bronze medals at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, the penultimate day of the competition, unable to add a gold medal to break its Summer Games record.

South Korea defeated Germany for…

North Korea has sent around 240 balloons carrying trash toward South Korea and about 10 of them landed in the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

As of 10 a.m., there had been no balloons detected floating midair, after North Korea launched…

Jun Woong-tae was in a medal position going into the final event of the men’s modern pentathlon final at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.

In a venue by the historic Chateau de Versailles in Versailles, west of Paris, Jun was in third place at the sta…

The person that Park Hye-jeong most wanted to see after winning her first Olympic medal Sunday in Paris is no longer with her.

Some four months after her mother, Nam Hyun-hee, succumbed to cancer, Park captured the silver medal in the women’s +81-ki…