South Korea's bourse operator said Friday that it will step up supervision of false regulatory filings by local resource developers as part of efforts to protect investors.

The chief policymaker at South Korea's ruling party vowed Friday to push through parliament a bill to improve North Korea's human rights this month, despite a political deadlock and the North's thr

South Korea indicated Friday that it will not return nine North Korean defectors to their communist homeland, a snub expected to further worsen inter-Korean relations.

China will likely surpass Japan in production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for TVs and computer monitors in the second half of this year as Chinese manufacturers continue to shore up thei

South Korean stocks traded 0.65 percent lower late Friday morning, led by electronics and financial tumbles, analysts said.

President Lee Myung-bak, all Cabinet ministers and their deputies were to kick off a brainstorming meeting Friday to discuss revitalizing small businesses and boosting domestic demand as a way of i

Data on North Korea's trade with other countries is scarce, and there are stark contrasts in recent estimates from South Korea and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in terms of both volume and

South Korea will expand the "differentiated rate system" for public services as part of its ongoing efforts to tame inflation, a senior finance ministry official said Friday.

A growing number of Seoul residents are getting married later in life or avoiding it altogether, as the population of singles in their 30s nearly doubled last year from a decade before, a report sa

South Korea and the European Union (EU) will hold a high-level meeting next week on economic and trade issues ahead of the planned implementation of their free trade deal in July, Seoul's trade min