South Korea will launch a new ministry of population strategy to address low birth rates and a rapidly aging population, which have emerged as some of the starkest challenges facing the country, officials said Monday.

The government unveiled the pla…

Rarely seen in Photharam, only 2 vendors left, growing bean sprouts in the traditional way, planted with black rice husk ash in a plastic container.

One of the two owners who still continue their bean sprout farming career is the three Supachaisirir…

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday ordered officials to make upmost efforts to rescue victims and treat them after a fatal car accident in downtown Seoul that killed at least nine people.

Yoon made the emergency order to Interior Minister Lee Sang-mi…

South Korean stocks finished a tad higher Monday as investors took a breather ahead of the release of the Fed minutes and the second-quarter earnings guidance of Samsung Electronics. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar on the first day of…

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles in a northeastern direction Monday, South Korea’s military said, with one of the launches possibly failing and the missile landing inside the country.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said one short-range ball…

Unionized workers of Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday they will stage a three-day general strike as their negotiations with the management over wages and working conditions fell through.

The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), the biggest …

The whole school was in a panic when a 3-meter long python slithered from the forest into the school but got caught in the school’s netting and couldn’t go any further. Students found it and told the teacher to quickly call rescue workers to come and…

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles in a northeastern direction Monday, South Korea’s military said, with one of the launches possibly failing and the missile falling inland within the country.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said one short-ran…