SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will gradually lift or lower tariffs on more than 95 percent of its imported products from Indonesia and Israel as it has clinched trade deals with the two na

NARITA, Japan, July 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Olympic chief Lee Kee-heung insisted on Monday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has promised in writing that it would ban the display of a J

SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- The Ministry of Justice on Monday gave advance notice of a revision to the civil law that would grant animals legal status as individuals with lives that deserve to be pr

SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- A fingerless South Korean mountaineer has climbed all of the world's 14 highest mountains in the Himalayas, a local alpine club said Monday, becoming the world's first pe

SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- The main South Korean delegation to the Tokyo Olympics departed for Japan on Monday, four days ahead of the opening ceremony for the competition delayed one year by the c

SEOUL, July 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Friday it will launch a working group on cybersecurity with the United States in order to reinforce cooperation against hacking attacks.

SEOUL, July 16 (Yonhap) -- A statue of King Sejong, the inventor of the Korean alphabet, Hanguel, will go up in Uzbekistan's capital as part of a cultural exchange between two local districts.

SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee and her counterparts from other World Trade Organization (WTO) member states agreed Thursday to redouble efforts to reach a deal

SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- Pope Francis has thanked Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, archbishop of Seoul, for contributing to the Vatican's initiative to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries,

SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum will participate in a virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on COVID-19 this week, his office announced