South Korea

An 81-year-old South Korean fashion model fell short in her bid to become the oldest Miss Universe contestant.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

South Korean officials said that providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear and missile program.

A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast on Wednesday, in the second such crash in less than two months.

Some angry dog farmers said they plan to challenge the bill’s constitutionality and hold protest rallies, a sign of continued heated debate over the ban.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted artillery drills along the rivals’ tense sea boundary in violation of ar 2018 military agreement.

The injury to the chairman of South Korea’s Democratic Party was non-life-threatening, authorities said.

Police say an industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea.

The wastewater discharges, which are expected to continue for decades, have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries including South Korea.

North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia.

American prisoners freed from Iran arrive in the US

The victim, according to arrest warrants, was starved and beaten for weeks before she eventually died. Her identity has not been released.

South Korea has expressed “deep concern and regret” over a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David to encourage the U.S. allies, who have been thawing their frosty relationship, to cooperate more given their shared concerns about aggression from China and North Korea.

North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has again toured munitions factories and has ordered a drastic increase in production of missiles and other weapons.

A lioness escaped from a farm in South Korea, touching off an emergency search before she was killed by a hunter Monday.

Condemning the allies’ expanding drills as invasion rehearsals, Kim has used them as a pretext to further accelerate his weapons demonstrations, which have included the testing-firings of more than 100 missiles since the start of 2022

Suga, the K-pop superstar rapper/singer/songwriter, has become the third member of BTS to begin South Korea’s compulsory military service.

South Korea is preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of scouts from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, scouting officials said Monday.