SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea replaced its top envoy to Germany, the country's official news agency said Saturday.

SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has nothing to gain from provocations against South Korea, Seoul's Cabinet minister handling inter-Korean relations said Saturday, urging the communist nation

SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- Corruption is widespread in South Korean society and ending irregularities in the bureaucracy is a top priority for the country if it wants to become an advanced nation,

SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- The government will consider changing the working hours of public-sector employees and splitting up the long school winter vacation into several breaks in an effort to sp

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SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan beat American great Michael Phelps for the first time in a California meet on Saturday.

The South Korean stock market is expected to face volatility next week as eurozone countries are still mired in a deadlock over solutions to the worsening Greek debt crisis, analysts said Saturday.

South Korea's Marine Corps guards shot at a civilian airplane flying near the tense Yellow Sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist country's military planes, a milita

North Korea's growing dependence on China, reflected by the launch of new joint economic zones along their border, drives discord among parties seeking to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons drive,

The United States on Friday expressed concern over the plight of North Korean refugees, responding to a stand-off between the two Koreas over the fate of nine North Koreans in the South.