Police decided Friday to refer a Korean American pastor at the center of a luxury bag scandal involving first lady Kim Keon Hee to the prosecution on charges of illegal electioneering ahead of April’s general elections.

The pastor, named Choi Jae-yo…

An undocumented immigrant from Kazakhstan fled from an immigration office in Suwon while in handcuffs, police said Friday.

The Kazakh national in his 20s pushed away immigration officers and ran away right after he was escorted out of a car upon arr…

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 Korean stocks started lower Thursday amid lingering fears about a U.S. recession.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 28.7 points, or 1.12 percent, to 2,539.71 in the first 15 minutes of trading.

Overnight, the Dow Jo…

CS Wind Corp. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 106 billion won (US$76.9 million), up 404.8 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the April-June period rose 211.5 percent o…

The government said Thursday it plans to announce new residential land sites capable of supplying a total of 80,000 housing units in the capital region by lifting greenbelt restrictions.

Officials announced the plan after holding a housing supply me…

North Korea on Thursday appointed a new top envoy to Cuba, nearly five months after its former ambassador left the Caribbean nation following the establishment of diplomatic ties between South Korea and Cuba.

In a one-sentence announcement on its we…

The provision of Samsung smartphones to North Korean Olympic athletes in Paris is subject to a possible violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions banning the North’s access to industrial equipment, Seoul officials said Thursday.

Samsung …