South Korea will take "resolute" steps to help stabilize the financial market, if needed, amid clear indications of interest rate hikes, the nation's top regulator said Monday.
The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Thursday denied speculation that two senior officials offered to resign due to a conflict with President Park Geun-hye over the corruption scandal involving her and her confidante.
S. Korean figure skating icon shrugs off rumors about being blacklistedSouth Korean figure skating icon Kim Yu-na on Wednesday shrugged off rumors that she has been blacklisted by the country's top government officials for her actions towards President Park Geun-hye.
State prosecutors on Wednesday called on President Park Geun-hye to answer questions related to her involvement in the scandal surrounding her confidante, despite her attorney's earlier refusal to face any criminal inquiry.
Two influential members quit South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party Tuesday in a fresh blow to the party plagued by a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and a resurfacing factional strife.
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the home of a former senior presidential secretary over his alleged involvement in a corruption case surrounding the ongoing construction of a skyscraper in the southern port city of Busan.
South Korea's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the opposition parties to pick candidates for an independent counsel to investigate the influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon-sil.
Prosecutors on Tuesday raided a local university suspected of having given unlawful favors to the daughter of President Park Geun-hye's close friend who is at the center of an influence-peddling scandal roiling the country.
The ruling and opposition parties agreed Monday to summon the leaders of the nation's eight largest conglomerates, including Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Group, as witnesses for their parliamentary probe into a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye's confidante.
South Korea and Japan plan to sign a military intelligence-sharing pact this week to better counter mounting threats from North Korea, the defense ministry said Monday.
The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party said her party will immediately review the timing and ways for impeaching President Park Geun-hye, who the prosecution has listed as a suspect in a corruption scandal involving her confidante.
The number of foreigners who visited South Korea in the first 10 months of this year jumped 33.1 percent from a year ago, breaking the previous record high in 2014, the state-run tourism agency said Monday.
Top actress Jun Ji-hyun will return to the small screen this week to play a tough but gorgeous mermaid navigating her way through the modern world.
South Korea's finance minister said Monday the government will take firm action to cushion any fallout from wide-spreading economic uncertainties stemming from Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election.
Infighting within the Saenuri Party deepened Monday as the ruling party's leadership rejected growing calls to resign over the scandal involving President Park Geun-hye's close confidante.
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un has inspected an artillery unit stationed on an island bordering South Korea and ordered a firing drill on the spot, the North's state-run newswire reported Friday.
South Korean parties continued to bicker over whether President Park Geun-hye should retain her control of foreign affairs and national security after she retreats from state affairs in the wake of a scandal involving her civilian confidante.
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