South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defense minister, breaking with a ...

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party takes office Wednesday. His first task: Dealing with the economic fallout of President ...

Amid North Korea’s claim that a drone that breached its airspace last October belonged to the South, new allegations suggest ...

Pre-election surveys suggest liberal Lee Jae-myung appears headed for an easy win, riding on deep public frustration over the conservatives in the wake of Yoon’s martial law debacle.

South Korea’s new leadership sees AI as a tech upgrade and a catalyst to redefine work, governance, and national purpose grounded in ethics, human dignity, and strategic sovereignty.

South Korea’s presidential election result was never really in doubt. The real question is which version of Lee Jae-myung ...

South Korea’s political turmoil began when Mr. Yoon declared martial law in December to try to remove Mr. Lee and other “anti-state forces” in the National Assembly, who he said had ...

South Korea’s New Leader Name Checks North Korea but Not China. ... The South Korean National Assembly in Seoul was preparing for Mr. Lee’s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday.

In his inaugural address at the National Assembly, ... South Korea’s central bank last week cut its key interest rate and sharply lowered its growth outlook for 2025 to 0.8 per cent, ...

Just before 11 P.M. this past December 3rd, the Korean legislator Lee Jae-myung issued a dire warning from a moving car. “My fellow-Koreans, you must come out to the National Assembly,” he ...

South Korea’s deeply entrenched, hyper-competitive education system pressures children from preschool onward, ... A 2024 report by the National Assembly Research Service painted a grim picture.