GWANGJU, July 29 (Yonhap) -- The closing ceremony of the FINA World Championships Gwangju 2019 took place in the southwestern metropolitan city Sunday featuring the region's seasonal wonders in var

SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan held phone talks Friday over North Korea's short-range ballistic missile launches and Tokyo's recent export control measure, Se

SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Friday it will open the third and last hiking trail along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas next month.

GWANGJU, July 26 (Yonhap) -- The closing ceremony of the FINA World Championships Gwangju 2019 will take place in the southwestern metropolitan city Sunday featuring the region's seasonal wonders i

SEJONG, July 26 (Yonhap) -- At a trade fair exhibiting Korean goods in Bangkok last month, whenever a customer came to the small booth where he was promoting beauty products, Jake Choi would use hi

GWANGJU, July 25 (Yonhap) -- In response to protests by athletes during medal ceremonies at the ongoing swimming world championships, the sport's international governing body has added a new rule m

SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has fired its "new tactical guided weapon" under leader Kim Jong-un's guidance in a demonstration of power, state media reported Friday, a day after the commu

SEOUL, July 25 (Yonhap) -- In yet another positive result for the government's win-win job-creation drive, LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's largest chemical company by sales, announced a plan Thursday t

SEOUL, June 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean astronomers have discovered an asteroid that could potentially collide with Earth, although the odds are extremely low, marking the first finding of a hazard

SEOUL, July 24 (Yonhap) -- K-pop boy band BTS' fan meetings and concerts in South Korea last month created an economic effect worth nearly 500 billion won (US$424.2 million), an academic report sho