Han Dong-hoon, a former leader of South Korea's ruling People Power Party, announced his bid for the presidency on Thursday.

Sluggish South Korean growth, as evidenced by a weaker-than-expected jobs report, ups the odds of an April rate cut.

By bno - Jakarta bureau South Korea's central bank is leaning towards reducing interest rates this April, even as the national currency hits its weakest point since 2009, as reported by ING THINK. A sluggish economy and disappointing employment data are putting pressure on policymakers to act,

Leading contenders began to throw their hats in the ring on Tuesday as South Korea officially set June 3 for a snap presidential election triggered by last week's removal from office of impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeol.

South Korea will hold a snap presidential election June 3 to choose Yoon Suk Yeol’s successor after the conservative was ousted over his imposition of martial law late last year.

South Korea will vote for a new president in a snap election on June 3, the acting president announced Tuesday, as the country works to recover from a martial law crisis that led to the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol.

J ust under a year ago, Yoon Suk-yeol was serenading guests at a White House state dinner with a rendition of Don McLean’s “American Pie.” On Friday, South Korea’s former

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has unanimously removed Yoon Suk Yeol as president after he threw the nation into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the parliamentary impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration.

HADONG (South Korea), April 8 (Bernama-Yonhap) -- A wildfire in the southern county of Hadong, South Korea, was mostly contained Tuesday, a day after the blaze reignited in a region battered by the nation's worst wildfires in history last month, Yonhap News Agency reported.

In April 1997, South Korea’s Supreme Court reduced Chun’s sentence to life imprisonment and Roh’s to 12 years, before both were pardoned later that year. Roh died in 2021. Kim Young-sam ...