Officials say the most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea are almost contained. The government's announcement ...

The multiple fires, which left 30 people dead and thousands of structures – including a centuries-old Buddhist temple - destroyed, were described as unprecedented in South Korea. Police said the ...

The Archdiocese of Seoul in South Korea has reached “the era of 1,000 priests” upon ordaining 26 new priests for the local Church on Feb. 7. Father Gabriel Lee Mun-su is serving up bowls of ...

China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is visiting Seoul for a three-way ministerial meeting on Sunday with South Korea's Ahn Duk-geun and Japanese Trade Minister Yoji Muto. Sign up here.

South Korea said. It said the North’s contributions are “expected to increase according to the situation.” While North Korea appears to be ramping up its support for Russia’s war ...

Last year was South Korea's hottest year on record, although temperatures in the months running up to the blaze had been colder than last year, and in line with the country's 30-year average ...

South Korea’s truth commission concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs ...

Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea's ... village went up in flames.

Timothy W. Martin is the Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Seoul, overseeing the Journal's coverage of North and South Korea. He previously wrote about Samsung from Seoul, but in prior ...

Light rain aids firefighters in South ... Sign up here. The main fires in five regions were under control by 5 p.m. (0800 GMT), said Lim Sang-seop, the minister of the Korea Forest Service.