SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its ...

During a White House meeting in 2025, President Trump unexpectedly raised the sensitive "comfort women" issue with South ...

“The whole issue of the women. Comfort women,” Trump remarked, seated beside Lee. “Very specifically, we talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they ...

An estimated 50,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in countries occupied by the Japanese army during WWII ...

In South Korea, 74.1% of men in their 20s and 60.3% of men in their 30s voted for one of the two conservative candidates compared with 35.6% and 40.5% of their female counterparts, respectively.

South Korea's fertility rate—the world's lowest—stood at 0.75 births per woman in 2024, well below the 2.1 rate needed to ...

Lee Jae-myung has been sworn in as South Korea's president, ushering in the nation's first liberal government since 2022.

North Korea has begun dismantling some of its loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border, South Korea ’s military confirmed on Saturday, following Seoul ’s own removal of propaganda speakers in a ...

South Korea's military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population ...