South Korea

President Joe Biden’s six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aims to build rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders. Biden will try to send a message to China that Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific. Biden departs Thursday and is set to meet newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk...

South Korea’s departing liberal president has defended his policy of engaging North Korea. Moon Jae-in said in his farewell speech that he hopes efforts to restore peace between the Koreas would continue.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has flight-tested a ballistic missile that was likely fired from a submarine, continuing a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations that may culminate with a nuclear test in the coming weeks or months. The launch came three days after South Korea and Japan detected a suspected ballistic missile fired from near the North Korean capital....

The United Nations, floating city developer Oceanix and the Korean shipping city of Busan have revealed a prototype for the first floating city.

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.”

Chinese technology giants are trying to get in on the metaverse act. A collaboration with Nreal could help Alibaba expand its augmented reality capabilities.

It is the first suspected launch of an ICBM since November 2017 and represents a major escalation of tensions over North Korea’s weapons program.

South Korea’s military says a North Korean missile fired from its capital region exploded in midair in an apparent failed launch

Starbucks unveiled the latest steps it’s taking to reduce its disposable cup use.

Two years after the WHO declared Covid a pandemic, here are five charts that show much — or how little — the world has recovered.

Residents from South Korea topped the list of visitor arrivals to the Philippines each year from 2010 to 2020, according to the Philippines’ tourism department.

Relations with North Korea, the U.S. and China will be of particular importance, said Tom Rafferty, Asia regional director at The Economist Intelligence Unit.

South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol says he will solidify an alliance with the United States, build a powerful military and sternly cope with North Korean provocations

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

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.

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea, according to its neighbors’ militaries, extending its streak of weapons tests amid a prolonged freeze in nuclear negotiations with the United States

Folding phones — or flip phones — appear to be making something of a comeback roughly two decades after the style first hit the market.

A conservative victory for South Korea’s upcoming presidential election on March 9 could see the country adopt a rigid stance on North Korea and China.

Advanced economies in Asia are showing a willingness to adopt a four-day work week, but the continent’s less developed countries are less interested.

As he leaves Beijing with two Olympic medals, South Korean short-track speed skater Hwang Daeheon sounds giddy about a “fried chicken pension” waiting at home