South Korea battles its largest wildfire on record, with helicopters deployed to fight reignited blazes in Andong. Dozens killed, thousands of homes destroyed.

At least 27 people have died in what have grown into the largest wildfires in South Korea's history. Most of those who have lost their lives were in their 60s and 70s - in other words, those who struggled to escape the fast-moving infernos.

South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.

The findings of a government probe confirm what many adoptees attested to for years: Babies were sent abroad for profit, often with falsified backstories.

A South Korean appeals court held on Wednesday that main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was not guilty of violating the election law, reversing a lower court's ruling and removing a possible block in his path to run for president.

A motorcyclist who fell into a massive sinkhole that opened up on a street in Seoul was found dead after an overnight search.

State-sponsored dating has become a phenomenon in a country with rock-bottom fertility rates; ‘I don’t want my parents to find out’

Kang told parliament that South Korea is monitoring the Chinese presence by setting up a stationary floating platform for "environmental survey". "South Korea has taken reciprocal measure with a large-scale floating object," he said.