A municipal councilor of Seoul’s Seongdong Ward attended an arrest warrant hearing Friday on charges of allegedly raping a drunk bar waitress.

The Seoul Central District Court began the hearing at 10:10 a.m. for the councilor, surnamed Koh, on charg…

A court on Friday granted cash-strapped e-commerce platforms TMON and WeMakePrice one month to seek debt restructuring on their own, after they failed to make payments to their vendors.

The decision by the Seoul Bankruptcy Court to allow an autonomo…

Severe heat caused the cancellation of a South Korean baseball game Friday.

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the regular-season game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants scheduled in the southeastern city of Ulsan was scrapped due to …

South Korea’s inflation picked up pace in July though it stayed below 3 percent for the fourth consecutive month, data showed Friday.

Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.6 percent on-year last month, compared with a 2.4 percent increas…

The government will announce a set of measures to tackle rising housing prices before Aug. 15, with a focus on supply-side measures, a presidential official said Friday.

The prices of apartments, in particular, have been rising at a fast clip in Seo…

Shin Yu-bin lost to the defending champion Chen Meng in the women’s singles semifinals in table tennis at the Paris Olympics on Friday, a result that sent the South Korean to the bronze medal match.

Shin, world No. 8, bowed out against the fourth-ra…

Seoul shares tumbled by more than 3.5 percent on Friday as data fueled concerns over the U.S. economy despite the Federal Reserve’s rate-cut signals. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI…

The opposition-led National Assembly voted Friday to impeach Korea Communications Commission (KCC) Chairperson Lee Jin-sook, just two days after she took office.

The impeachment motion passed in a 186-1 vote with one abstention and Lee’s duties were…