BORYEONG, South Korea, July 15 (Yonhap) -- This year's Boryeong Mud Festival, one of the nation's most celebrated summer events, will scale down in-person programs due to recent spikes in COVID-19

SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea opened an online hospitality house for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics amid on-site restrictions stemming from the new coronavirus pandemic, sports authorities sa

SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first and only public museum specialized in expert craftwork will open its doors to the public this week, officials said Wednesday.

SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said Wednesday it plans to expand its investment in its signature New Deal policy projects in a bid to create more jobs and better prepare for the post-pandem

SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean artist couple, who has built about 100 "comfort women" statues worldwide in memory of Korean victims of Japanese military wartime sexual slavery, condemned

SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will increase its investment in the Korean-version New Deal project to 220 trillion won (US$191 billion) by 2025, President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday.

SEJONG, July 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korean archbishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik said Tuesday he will make "cultivating Catholic priests the era calls for" his top priority as the new prefect of Congregat

SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministry called in a Japanese diplomat Tuesday to lodge a protest after Tokyo renewed its claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in an annual def

SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) -- A UNESCO committee will adopt a decision next week calling for Japan to live up to its promise to honor forced labor victims at an information center on industrial revolu

SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae reiterated Sunday that the decision on President Moon Jae-in's potential attendance at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Tokyo Ol