Though I’d traveled throughout South Korea, Jeju always felt like a fabled land, sunny and warm at times, rainy and blustery ...

As your new government takes office, we write to you about the human rights situation in South Korea and urge that you take ...

The sun sets over a tidal flat in southwestern South Korea. Tidal flats are a type of ecosystem that provide habitat for wildlife and help fight climate change—yet many are at risk of disappearing.

South Korea's transformation from colonial subjugation and a war-ravaged state into one of the world's leading economies and cultural exporters is a story of extraordinary resilience and ambition.

From the economy to the climate and the EU's role in ... South Korea’s liberal opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president early on Wednesday in a victory that would cap ...

South Korea’s presidential election aims to restore democratic credentials. Polls favour Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung over governing People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo as the ...

South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data on the country’s geography to its international servers. In February ...

The fires burned an area of 104,000 hectares (257,000 acres) and destroyed 5,000 buildings, constituting the deadliest and largest wildfire disaster in South Korea’s […] Features Videos ...

Human-induced climate change made the ultra-dry and warm conditions that fanned South Korea's deadliest wildfires in history this March twice as likely and more intense, researchers said Thursday.

Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze, officials said Thursday, as the death toll hit 27.

During the wildfires, temperatures in South Korea climbed 4.5°C to 10°C (8.1°F to 18°F) above the 1991-2020 average, while western Japan exceeded the average by as much as 7°C to 8.5°C (12.6 ...