SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will increase its investment in the Korean-version New Deal project to 220 trillion won (US$191 billion) by 2025, President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday.

SEJONG, July 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korean archbishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik said Tuesday he will make "cultivating Catholic priests the era calls for" his top priority as the new prefect of Congregat

SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministry called in a Japanese diplomat Tuesday to lodge a protest after Tokyo renewed its claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in an annual def

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- A UNESCO committee will adopt a decision next week calling for Japan to live up to its promise to honor forced labor victims at an information center on industrial revolu

SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae reiterated Sunday that the decision on President Moon Jae-in's potential attendance at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Tokyo Ol

SEOUL, July 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea embarked on a quest for a top-10 performance at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics with a launching ceremony for its delegation on Thursday, with the weary nation rea

TOKYO, July 8 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition showcasing a statue symbolizing Japan's sexual enslavement of women from Korea and elsewhere in Asia was disrupted Thursday after explosives that were suspec

SEOUL, July 8 (Yonhap) -- The remains of a public toilet with an advanced purification facility, presumed to be built about 150 years ago, were discovered at a Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) palace in

SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- The leaders of South Korea and the Netherlands agreed during virtual summit talks Wednesday to reinforce partnerships between their countries in the semiconductors industr

SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Wednesday unveiled a plan to build a museum dedicated to artworks donated by late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in the country's capital after months of deli