Ships searching in the choppy waters between South Korea and Japan have rescued at least 14 of the 22 crew members of a cargo ship that went down early Wednesday. South Korean officials said nine of them were still unconscious, but no
South Korea enacted legislation on Thursday to abandon its traditional system of calculating ages in favour of the international standard, thereby making its residents one or two years younger on official documents. Koreans are considered a year old when they are born,
Taking delivery of the first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea on Tuesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defence minister applauded the prompt execution of a contract that was made in the summer in response to the conflict
Officials in South Korea said Monday that the government will conduct a thorough investigation into the Halloween crowd crush that killed more than 150 people in the capital over the weekend, as the country mourned its worst disaster in years. Tens of
A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween festivities in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 146 people and injuring 150 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years. Emergency workers and
Late Tuesday, North Korea fired artillery shells near its sea borders with South Korea, a day after the South began annual military drills to better deal with North Korean provocations. The Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea said in an early