Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean court has overturned the 60-year-old conviction of an elderly woman who was jailed as a teenager for biting the tongue of an alleged sexual assaulter, ending ...

Seoul (CNN) — “Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a ...

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. called on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies to invest more ...

Hahna Yoon is a New York Times editor based in Seoul. She learned to love Busan from her husband, who lived there in the early years of their relationship. Chang W. Lee was born in Busan and lived ...

BUSAN, South Korea — A 21-rifle salute and the sound of sirens marked the start of this year’s Turn Toward Busan ceremony, which honors United Nations soldiers who fought and died in the Korean War.

The fire broke out in the back of the cabin, officials said. All 176 people on board, including passengers and crew members, were evacuated, some with minor injuries. By Jin Yu Young Isabella Kwai ...