Robert Taylor, an American entrepreneur living in Seoul, clearly remembers one of his earliest attempts to pitch his life coaching services to a marketing director at a big Korean firm.

South Korea's jobless rate remained unchanged in May from a year earlier, but it fell sharply from the previous month as the private sector increased employment amid the economic recovery, a govern

South Korea's finance minister and the top central banker emphasized on Wednesday the importance of cooperation and information sharing as economic uncertainty at home and abroad persists.

Seeking its first Olympic appearance, South Korean women's football team will open the final round of Asian qualification against China in September, the continental governing body of the sport sai

We are dumbfounded by the way 13 private universities have been running their operations.

Former Agriculture-Forestry Minister Im Sang-gyu should have secured a place in the annals of Korean bureaucracy as a model public administrator, if only he had a little more courage to escape the

President Lee Myung-bak will likely meet with Democratic Party Chairman Sohn Hak-kyu this month.

South Korea's import prices grew at a slower pace in May than in the previous month as a fall in global raw material prices drove down agricultural and oil bills, the central bank said Wednesday.

The United States is prepared to talk with North Korea, but a basic principle is to avoid the "mistakes" made in previous negotiations with the communist nation, an outgoing top State Department of

By Lee Chi-dong