South Korea added fewer than 100,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in June due to the slowing growth of manufacturing jobs and the weak construction industry, data showed Wednesday.

The number of employed people came to 28.91 million last mo…

South Korea has struck a 1.38 trillion-won (US$998 million) deal to supply weapons, including K-9 self-propelled howitzers, to Romania, the state arms procurement agency and the K-9’s manufacturer said Wednesday, the latest in Seoul’s push to clinch …

Record torrential rainfall battered South Korea’s southern regions Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead and thousands evacuated and disrupting train and flight services, authorities said.

Parts of North Jeolla Province experienced record dow…

Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics Co., staging the biggest labor action in the technology giant’s 55-year history, declared an “indefinite general strike” Wednesday, stepping up pressure over their demand for a pay raise.

After a three-day st…

Record torrential rainfall battered South Korea’s southern regions Wednesday, leaving at least four people dead and disrupting train services, authorities said.

Parts of North Jeolla Province experienced record downpours starting early Wednesday mor…

The driver responsible for a deadly car crash that killed nine pedestrians in central Seoul last week underwent a second round of police questioning Wednesday, officials said.

The 68-year-old man, identified only by his surname Cha, was questioned f…

North Korea on Wednesday denounced Japan’s additional discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, saying that the world cannot help but face a “terrifying nuclear disaster.”

In late June, Japan began relea…

Chiang Rai, Police interrogated a conscripted soldier who brutally killed his girlfriend, a housekeeper at the parliament, and hid her body in an apartment after being arrested last night. He confessed to stabbing his lover in the chest out of jealou…