With a surging far-right, South Korea under Lee Jae-myung continues to confront the mainstreaming of extremism, erosion of moderate conservatism and a fractured progressive coalition.

But that progress was thrown into question last December when Yoon Suk Yeol, then South Korea’s president, briefly imposed ...

There will be temptation to continue with the Moon-era progressive foreign policy, but Lee is likely to be more pragmatic ...

Lee Jae-myung’s presidency may not herald a radical shift in the China-South Korea relationship, but it does create space for ...

South Korean diplomacy needs to strike a balance between two sets of trilateral relationships — ROK-U.S.-Japan and ...

The 30-minute call comes as Lee, a liberal from South Korea's Democratic Party, seeks to ease tensions on the Korean ...

China regards the ROK as a close neighbor and an inseparable cooperative partner that shares with it a common commitment to uphold free trade, economic globalization and multilateralism, which ...

Can South Korea turn the page on its most turbulent time since democracy was installed? An election held this Tuesday looks like a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Lee Jae-myung. What is ...

The debilitating political vacuum that has reigned in Seoul since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on ...

A doctored image of US President Donald Trump apparently holding up a message in support of impeached South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol has surfaced after the Asian nation elected a new leader on June ...

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature overwhelmingly passed bills Thursday to launch special investigations into former ...

Shares have advanced in Asia after U.S. stocks drifted closer to their records. South Korea's Kospi jumped 2.4% after the ...