South Korea's new finance minister and the country's top trade envoy will meet in Washington with U.S. counterparts on Friday for talks on U.S. tariffs, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday.

South Korea's Finance Minister Koo Yoon-cheol and Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo are scheduled to meet US counterparts in Washington. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A U.S.-South Korean dual citizen who has violated six deportation orders from Canada was sentenced Monday for his latest transgression.

Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.

The pilots of the South Korean airliner that crashed and killed 179 people switched off the wrong engine, a report has revealed.

SEOUL: A special counsel team announced on July 21 that it has summoned both former president Yoon Suk Yeol and former first lady Kim Keon Hee for questioning scheduled to take place in the following weeks,

Torrential rains in South Korea over five days have caused 14 deaths and left 12 people missing, officials report.

The families of victims of South Korea’s deadliest plane crash on home soil have denounced a Government report that blamed the disaster on pilot error, a representative told AFP Tuesday. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to South Korea’s southwest on December 29 last year but ended up belly-landing at Muan airport and exploding in a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier,

The apples grown in the South Korean county of Cheongsong in the country's southeast are so renowned for their flavour that they are often given out in neatly-packaged gift boxes during national holidays.

Yoon’s additional indictments mean he will remain in jail for up to six months as he faces a trial at the Seoul Central District Court on his Dec. 3 martial law declaration.