A mere fifth of households in Korea lay claim to more than 91 percent of the country’s private land, highlighting a persistent imbalance in land ownership. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent of ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, but ...

Largest burnt area in South Korea’s history The fire burned about 48,000 hectares (119,000 acres), destroyed an estimated 4,000 structures, and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate.

North Korean balloons carrying trash have landed near South Korea's presidential office, the Presidential Security Service said on Wednesday.

South Korean authorities have declared ongoing wildfires the worst to ever hit the country, as the death toll rose again and the affected area doubled in size.

Backdrop of political crisis: The tragic plane crash comes as South Korea’s government faces a full-blown political crisis and leadership remains uncertain in the country.

Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalization ... Relations with Japan, however, are one area where Lee, who describes himself as a pragmatist in foreign policy, may find ...

South Korea says that it has detected tens of thousands of new land mines in the Demilitarized Zone.

A North Korean civilian volunta­rily crossed the heavily mined land border between the two countries, aided by the South's military in a delicate 20-hour operation, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.