Paul Shin, whose decadeslong career in journalism, including nearly 20 years with The Associated Press, placed him at the heart of South Korea’s most turbulent and transformative moments since the 1960s,

South Korea will follow terms previously agreed with the United States on defence cost sharing, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, following a call by U.S. President Donald Trump for Seoul to pay more for the U.

South Korea’s household lending surged in June at the fastest pace in 10 months, driven by a hot property market in Seoul that’s complicating the central bank’s efforts to support the economy with looser policy.

The heirs of late Samsung chair Lee Kun-hee have sold a luxury villa in Seoul ’s Itaewon district for 22.8 billion won (£13m) – likely to help pay South Korea ’s largest-ever inheritance tax bill of around 12 trillion won (£6.8bn).

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday lauded Korean War veterans and their battlefield achievements ahead of the country's 72nd anniversary of the Korean War armistice.

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China on Wednesday had "solemn representations" with South Korea because of anti-China protests in popular tourist areas in Seoul, according to the state-run Global Times newspaper. The Chinese Embassy said it was in response to recent demonstrations in areas popular with Chinese tourists,