A man in his 40s stabbed a woman in her 20s on a street in Namyangju, a city in Gyeonggi Province near Seoul, before fleeing the scene. He was arrested about an hour later in a rural area of Yangpyeong County, in a separate part of the province. Police say

South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in what was described as a surprise encounter, lasting about 20 minutes and centered on North Korea. Kim said he had first met with a pastor from the White House faith-based initiatives

A man identified as A was handed over to prosecutors by the Seoul Gangseo Police Station without detention in late January, accused of violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for posting explicit comments online that referenced the real name of the head of the Reformist New Party, Lee Jun-seok. The

A Korean woman in her 60s died after receiving stem cell therapy at a Tokyo clinic linked to a cross-border program run by Korean and Japanese partners, the scientists and officials said. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) issued an emergency temporary suspension of regenerative medicine treatment

South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met in Washington with U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance at the White House on the 12th local time to push for faster implementation of the results from Korea–U.S. negotiations, including the plan to procure nuclear-powered submarines and other security-sector

Tokyo is seeing an unexpected wave of toilet paper hoarding chatter as oil prices rise on news of tensions in the Middle East. Social media posts have circulated warnings to stock up before a potential second oil shock, prompting industry associations in Japan to push back with caution. According to

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama is in Seoul for talks that included an exclusive interview with Yonhap News Agency at the Seoul Shilla Hotel on March 13. He told Yonhap he wants to use Korean artificial intelligence tools to survey Ghana’s key mineral deposits, saying the idea arose

Seoul's Gangseo Police Station has forwarded a man identified as A to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on charges of violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for using a communications medium to post sexually explicit comments online. The comments were aimed at Lee Joon-seok, the leader of

South Korea began enforcing a major labor reform known as the Yellow Envelope Act on the 10th, expanding the rights of subcontracted workers to bargain with their main employers. Within the first day, nine parent companies announced they would enter negotiations with subcontracted unions, a sign of broader leverage for

A cross-border passenger train between North Korea and China has resumed service for the first time in about six years, following border closures tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Pyongyang-origin train arrived at Beijing Railway Station at 8:40 a.m. local time after departing Pyongyang at 10:26