The public data director at South Korea's interior ministry says access to the country's national ID database was restored before a visa-free scheme for Chinese tourists came into effect, contradicting posts pushing conspiracy theories that the disruption allowed them to circumvent a ban on tourists from opening a mobile phone account.

South Korea's chief presidential policy adviser said on Thursday he was "optimistic" about ongoing talks to finalise a trade deal with the U., in the latest remarks by officials suggesting progress in negotiations that had stalled for months.

South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM and Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday that they signed a multi-year partnership to co-produce and distribute Korean programming, expanding the global reach o

A school in Incheon was temporarily closed and about 930 students were sent home after a bomb threat. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea's chief presidential policy adviser said on Thursday he was "optimistic" about talks to finalise a trade deal with the U.S., the latest remark by an official pointing to progress in negotiations that helped fuel an auto-led stock market rally.

The United States has agreed to allow South Korean workers on short-term visas or a visa waiver program to help build industrial sites in America, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

858 terabytes is a big number for a household, but barely registers in the scale of datacenter storage, where entire petabytes are doled out like candy. This fact is even stranger, as South Korea is seen as a highly technologically advanced country, being the home of Samsung and other conglomerates known as chaebol.

The surging demand for computer chips and related components to fuel the AI boom has boosted shares of ISU Petasys by 215% so far this year.

South Korean investigators on Friday have indicted the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church, Hak Ja Han, over allegations that she instructed church officials to bribe the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker