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The governments of South Korea and Japan say their leaders have agreed to accelerate efforts to mend ties frayed over Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

Samsung Electronics says it’s shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely power its global operations with clean electricity by 2050.

South Koreans shared congratulations on social media for the multiple wins by “Squid Game” at the Emmy Awards, but the overall reaction was subdued as the country grows accustomed to its increasingly prominent role in global entertainment.

Samsung’s de-facto leader has secured a pardon of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government.

North Korea has warned that the United States and South Korea will face “unprecedented” security challenges if they don’t drop their hostile military pressure campaign against the North, including joint military drills.

On Wednesday, South Korea’s presidential office condemned the former progressive administration’s decision to repatriate two North Korean fishermen in 2019 amid newly released photographs of the men being forcibly moved across the border. In response, President Yoon Suk-yeol’s spokesperson Kang In-sun called the decision “a crime against humanity that violated both international law and the constitution.” The fishermen were deported just five days after being taken into custody without the usual treatment of North Korean defectors in which they are investigated and debriefed by Seoul’s intelligence officials.

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests as he wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea on Sunday.

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol this week as the allies face a growing threat from North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program.

For many South Koreans, the former presidential palace in Seoul was a little-visited, heavily secured mountainside landmark.

South Korea’s new president says he’ll present “an audacious plan” to improve North Korea’s economy if it denuclearizes.

The leaders of the rival Koreas have exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which have plummeted amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the South Korean defense minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive strikes on the North and warned the South may face “a serious threat.”.

Former President Park Geun-hye went home three months after being pardoned for one of South Korea’s worst government-corruption scandals.

South Korea says North Korea has fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea.

South Korea’s president-elect says he will abandon the current mountainside presidential palace of Blue House and establish his office in central Seoul as part of efforts to better communicate with the public.

After winning last week's presidential election, South Korean conservative Yoon Suk Yeol will enter office facing a quickly growing North Korean nuclear threat — and with few easy choices to deal with it.

South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol says he would solidify an alliance with the United States, build up a powerful military and sternly cope with North Korean provocations.

Yoon Suk-yeol, formerly the country’s top prosecutor, was elected the new president of South Korea on Wednesday, ushering in an era of conservative party rule that would significantly shift the country’s policies in the face of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and China’s rise. Here's what you need to know about the new president.

A conservative former prosecutor declared victory in South Korea’s presidential election after his liberal ruling party rival conceded defeat amid a bitter battle in the politically divided nation.

South Koreans are voting Wednesday to choose their next president.

An unusually bitter election season in South Korea culminates on Wednesday when tens of millions of voters pick their next president.

The rivalry, mudslinging and negative campaigning between the two leading presidential candidates in South Korea are so bad that the loser faces a prospect of going to jail.

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Ahead of the March 9 presidential election in South Korea, major candidates are embroiled in a heated debate over how to address a foreign policy challenges that include the U.S.-China rivalry, North Korea's nuclear threats and badly strained ties with Japan.

The United States and European allies are stepping up sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by adding measures directly targeting President Vladimir Putin and his top diplomat.

The U.S. and all 27 European Union member nations are ordering initial penalties targeting Russian officials over their actions in Ukraine.

South Korea will extend restaurant dining hours but maintain a six-person limit on private social gatherings as it wrestles with a massive coronavirus wave driven by the highly infectious omicron variant.

South Korea will distribute free coronavirus rapid test kits at schools and senior care facilities starting next week as it weathers an unprecedented wave of infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant.

Candidates for South Korea’s presidential election began their formal, 22-day campaigns Tuesday in a race tainted by intense political strife over allegations involving the main candidates and their families.

South Korea’s parliament has approved plans to provide a special time for COVID-19 patients to vote during the March 9 presidential election as the country grapples with a record-breaking omicron surge

South Korea’s parliament has approved plans to provide a special time for COVID-19 patients to vote during the March 9 presidential election as the country grapples with a record-breaking omicron surge.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests.

During the last Winter Games, North Korea basked in the global limelight in South Korea.

North Korea has confirmed it test-launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in its most significant launch in almost five years.

Sunday's launch is the seventh this month, and is thought to be the largest in almost five years.

A delegation led by South Korea’s president visiting Saudi Arabia has inked a preliminary deal to explore a project to develop a potentially cleaner form of energy.

The president of South Korea has reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal to sell Seoul’s surface-to-air missiles to Abu Dhabi and pledged deeper cooperation with the United Arab Emirates during a visit to the Gulf Arab state.

The impeachment of Park Geun-hye, after huge protests over corruption, marked the first time a South Korean president was legally removed from office.

The South Korean government says it will grant a special pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, 69, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes.

South Korea will prohibit private social gatherings of five or more people nationwide and force restaurants to close at 9 p.m. as the country grapples with the deadliest month of the pandemic.

Halting its steps toward normalcy, South Korea will clamp down on social gatherings and cut the hours of some businesses to fight a record-breaking surge of the coronavirus that has led to a spike hospitalizations and deaths.

South Korea has marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting, delta-driven spread stretched thin hospitals and left people dying while waiting for beds.

South Korea on Tuesday marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting, delta-driven spread stretched thin hospitals and left people dying while waiting for beds. Health experts warn that the country’s medical system is quickly approaching its limits and that fatalities could worsen if the government continues to be slow and hesitant in tightening social distancing. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said 94 virus patients died in the past 24 hours while a record 906 were in serious or critical condition. The 5,567 new infections were the highest yet for a Tuesday — daily tallies are usually smaller at the start of the week because of fewer tests on weekends – indicating the virus has continued to gain speed after the government moderately tightened social distancing last week.

But talks have yet to begin because of North Korea's demands, says President Moon Jae-in.

Australia and South Korea have signed a $720 million defense deal as South Korean President Moon Jae-in became the first foreign leader to visit Australia since the pandemic began.

New coronavirus infections in South Korea have exceeded 7,000 for the third consecutive day as the worst surge since the start of the pandemic overwhelms hospitals and depletes health care workforce.

New coronavirus infections in South Korea exceeded 7,000 for the first time since the start of the pandemic as hours-long lines snaked around testing stations in the capital Seoul amid a worsening virus crisis.

South Korea has confirmed its first five cases of the new omicron coronavirus variant in people linked to arrivals from Nigeria.

South Korea has reported 3,187 new cases of the coronavirus, nearly matching a one-day record set in September, a worrisome development in a country that eased social distancing rules in recent weeks to lessen the pandemic’s economic impact.

South Korea’s conservative former top prosecutor, who has called for a stronger U.S. security guarantee to neutralize North Korean nuclear threats, has won the main opposition party’s hotly contested nomination for next March’s presidential election.

The leaders of four Central European nations have met in Hungary’s capital where they urged visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in to consider investing in a rapid train line connecting Budapest and Polish capital Warsaw.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed to boost ties in the Indo-Pacific region during a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit.

The Vatican has abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis.

South Korea’s president says he’ll keep striving to promote peace with North Korea through dialogue until the end of his term next May, after Pyongyang raised animosities with a resumption of provocative weapons tests.

NASA has completed stacking the 322-foot-tall Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft it will use for its next generation of deep space operations, including missions on and around the moon. (Oct. 22)

Live footage showed the 154 foot rocket soaring into the air with bright yellow flames shooting out of its engines following blastoff.

Live footage showed the 154-foot rocket soaring into the air with bright yellow flames shooting out of its engines following blastoff.

The country successfully launched a home-grown rocket for the 1st time, but the payload, a dummy satellite, failed to make it into orbit.

South Korea’s first domestically produced space rocket reached its desired altitude but failed to deliver a dummy payload into orbit in its first test launch on Thursday.

It's yet another capability attained by South Korea's increasingly modern and sophisticated military.

As North Korea goes back to its pattern of pressuring South Korea to get what it wants from the United States, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un has emerged as the face of its campaign of mixing weapons demonstrations and peace offers.

Chung Eui-yong said the United States should do more to get North Korea to the negotiating table.

North Korea has accused the United States of hostility and demanded the Biden administration permanently end joint military exercises with South Korea.

South Korea is urging North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day after the North repeated an offer to open conditional talks.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country will take steps to repair ties with South Korea, and may even discuss another summit between their leaders, if the South drops what she described as hostility and double standards.

South Korean president Moon Jae-in called this week at the UN General Assembly for an end to the decades-long conflict.

Kim Yo-jong was responding to a renewed call from the South to officially declare an end to the Korean War.

"Every choice we make is the beginning of change," the K-pop superstars said, kicking off "Leaders Week" at the U.N. General Assembly.

Analysts say the ratcheting up of military might between North and South Korea raises the possibility of misunderstandings that could spiral to dangerous consequences.

"We cannot accept that only 3% of Africa has yet been immunized, we can and will do better," says incoming president of the General Assembly.

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are two of the world’s most profitable companies, and their app marketplaces are among their most profitable endeavors: The cut Apple takes from App Store transactions approaches the revenue from iPads and Macs, and accounted for most of the $54 billion generated by the Services division in fiscal 2020. Now such practices are coming under increasing scrutiny. U.S. Senators and European regulators have griped about the “gatekeeper control” that Apple and Goog

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are two of the world’s most profitable companies, and their app marketplaces are among their most profitable endeavors: The cut Apple takes from App Store transactions approaches the revenue from iPads and Macs, and accounted for most of the $54 billion generated by the Services division in fiscal 2020. Now such practices are coming under increasing scrutiny. U.S. Senators and European regulators have griped about the “gatekeeper control” that Apple and Goog

Samsung Group scion Jay Y. Lee walked out of jail Friday, a free man once again. He had been granted parole after being sent to prison for a second time in January after a conviction on bribery charges. He apologized to the public for “causing worries” and said he’s aware of “concerns, criticisms, expectations.”

Samsung Group scion Jay Y. Lee is poised to become a free man once again. Jailed for a second time in January after a conviction on bribery charges, he was recommended for parole in August and will be released Friday but faces the prospect of returning to prison if convicted in another, ongoing case. Both center on the means Lee used in trying to take control of the company founded by his grandfather, a saga that brought down a South Korean president and reignited public outrage over the cozy re

Samsung Group scion Jay Y. Lee is poised to become a free man once again. Jailed for a second time in January after a conviction on bribery charges, he was recommended for parole in August and will be released Friday but faces the prospect of returning to prison if convicted in another, ongoing case. Both center on the means Lee used in trying to take control of the company founded by his grandfather, a saga that brought down a South Korean president and reignited public outrage over the cozy re

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has decided not to visit Japan for the Tokyo Summer Olympics, citing a failure to set up a summit with Japan's prime minister that would produce meaningful results in improving relations. Moon’s office said Monday that officials from Seoul and Tokyo held talks over longstanding disputes about wartime history and a “future-oriented” development of their relations, but did not find enough common ground to support a summit between their leaders. The countries had been discussing the possibility of Moon visiting Tokyo to participate in the Olympics’ opening ceremony and having talks with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga about repairing bilateral ties that have sunk to postwar lows in recent years with disputes over history, trade and military cooperation.

South Korea is seeing a steep rise in coronavirus infections unseen since the worst of its outbreak last winter as it slips into another surge while most of its people are still unvaccinated. The 1,212 new cases confirmed by Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Wednesday came close to matching its highest daily increase of the pandemic — 1,240 cases reported on Christmas Day. Health experts say the government sent the wrong message to the public by pushing for a premature easing of social distancing despite a steadily rising caseload.

President Biden on Friday tapped career U.S. diplomat Sung Kim as his special envoy to North Korea, marking what could be a critical step toward reengaging with Pyongyang.

Pres. Moon Jae-in acknowledged the strong U.S.-South Korean alliance and hailed the Biden administration for its COVID response and economic recovery.

South Korea’s president is first foreign leader to attend ceremony awarding nation’s highest military

In the latest instalment of the White House versus Fox News, press secretary Jen Psaki agreed to call the president’s negotiations with on infrastructure the “Art of the Deal” with one correction – “for working people”. Ms Psaki announced on Friday that Joe Biden’s $2.3 trn spending plan had been reduced to $1.7 trn in the “art of seeking common ground”. Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked if at some point those negotiations become the “art of the deal”, referencing Donald Trump’s infamous 1987 tome of the same name.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet with President Biden on Friday. He sees this year as representing "the last opportunity to move from an incomplete peace toward one that is irreversible."

President Biden will recognize retired Army Ranger Col. Ralph Puckett Jr. for his acts of valor during his service in the Korean War.

South Korean President Moon Jae-In, who is visiting the White House for talks with President Joe Biden, is scheduled to join the award ceremony.

The reasons for the ongoing global chip shortage, which is set to last into 2022 and possibly 2023, are complex and multifaceted.

South Korea has also set up mobile testing stations and home visits, and can conclude in a matter of hours whether someone has been infected. In the U.S., with six times the population of South Korea, about 2,000 infections had been reported and 43 have died as of Friday. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)How South Korea accelerated its coronavirus testing, while early missteps left the U.S. lagging far behind, is a story of flexibility, preparedness and painful lessons from a past fumble. AdvertisementAs luck would have it, last December, the South Korean government held a mock disease response drill under the premise of a coronavirus outbreak. With new clusters being discovered in the densely packed Seoul metropolitan area this week, South Korea still faces challenges.

DUBAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Irans coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tuesday, the highest outside China, increasing its international isolation as dozens of countries from South Korea to Italy accelerated emergency measures to curb the epidemics global spread. Growing outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea are of particular concern. A man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China February 24, 2020. Eurasia consultancys Scott Rosenstein said the bad news from Iran, South Korea and Italy had undercut confidence sustained human-to-human transmission can be limited to China. Markets have responded accordingly.DONT HANG ABOUTAfghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman reported their first new coronavirus cases, all in people who had been to Iran.

President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un stand on North Korean soil while walking to South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday it was too early to be pessimistic about stalled denuclearisation dialogue between the United States and North Korea, adding that Pyongyang has not yet shut the door to more talks. "Some were concerned about a new round of provocations just in time for Chairman Kim's birthday," Moon said. On Friday, a South Korean official said Trump had asked the South Koreans to pass on birthday greetings to North Korea. Over the weekend, however, North Korea released a statement saying it had already directly received a letter from Trump and ridiculed South Korea for trying to "meddle" in U.S.-North Korea relations.

Trumps willingness to flout all that came before him was welcomed by the leaders of North and South Korea. A very good relationship.... Nobody else would have done that.Three summits, several praise-filled letters and many months later, the U.S. finds itself back in familiar waters with North Korea. Paektu, a place of symbolic and historic importance for North Korea. (AFP via Getty Image)After a hiatus, North Korea has returned to regular testing of ballistic missiles, firing off more than a dozen rounds of short-range missiles this year. Time has been on North Koreas side forever.

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (L) is welcomed by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the G-20 Summit in June 2019. South Korea's president said on Wednesday Japan's export curbs on key materials used by South Korean technology firms could be prolonged, and Seoul will help companies reduce their reliance on Japanese suppliers. Japan said last week it would tighten restrictions on exports of three materials used in smartphone displays and chips, citing a dispute with Seoul over South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two. "We can't rule out the possibility that the situation would be prolonged, despite our diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue," President Moon Jae-in said at a meeting with executives from South Korea's top 30 conglomerates.

When President Trump and North Koreas Kim Jong Un sat down for their historic first summit last June in Singapore, the president of South Korea was 3,000 miles away in Seoul. South Korean authorities would better mind their own internal business, a North Korean foreign ministry official wrote in a statement published this week by state media. The official, Kwon Jong Gun, who heads the ministrys American Affairs section, wrote that there was no role for South Korea in the nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea. The negotiation, if any, will be held face to face between the DPRK and the U.S., his statement said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. North Korea was a no-show at the one-year anniversary celebration of last Aprils summit between the Koreas.