North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a ceremony to dispatch young workers to flood-affected areas on the northern border, describing the restoration efforts as a “gigantic revolutionary construction campaign,” state media said Wednesday.

The…

The South Korean customs agency said Wednesday it will intensify its crackdown on drug smuggling attempts from Mexico by setting up a special task force and strengthening security checks on incoming travelers.

The move came as direct flights linking…

NCSOFT Corp., a major South Korean game developer, said Wednesday it has established a joint venture with a Vietnamese IT company as part of efforts to break into the Southeast Asian game market.

NCSOFT and Vietnam’s VNG have signed an agreement tha…

President Yoon Suk Yeol visited a major naval base in the southern part of the country this week as part of his summer vacation, his office said Wednesday.

During the two-day visit to the naval base in Changwon, some 310 kilometers southeast of Seou…

LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit dropped 22.8 percent from a year earlier due to an increase in operating costs.

Net profit for the April-June period came to 164.6 billion won (US$119….

Case of 13 villains who gang-raped a 6th grade girl, parents have brought 6 of them to surrender, one of whom is a man who is blind in both eyes, while the parents of the other 7 have contacted them to surrender.

After Mr. Kanthas Pongpaiboonwet or …

Responding to critical comments by a badminton gold medalist toward her national team, South Korean Olympic chief Lee Kee-heung said Tuesday he had ordered five coaches to submit reports on the situation.

The action by Lee, president of the Korean S…

Police referred a man to the prosecution Wednesday on charges of stabbing a street cleaner to death in central Seoul last week.

The man, surnamed Lee, is accused of killing the woman in her 60s, who was working at the time, by stabbing her multiple …