Korea's Jeju Island, a lush tropical destination full of natural wonders, is bringing back its World Heritage Festival this ...

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung took office on June 4 with a sweeping promise to leave behind ideological battles ...

2005 -- South Korean pitcher Park Chan-ho earns his 100th major league win, marking yet another milestone since his U.S. debut in 1994. Park, the first South Korean Major League Baseball player, ...

South Koreans have elected a new president after months of turmoil, but what happens now? Here's what you need to know.

Minor presidential hopefuls including Kwon Young-guk of the Democratic Labor Party and Song Jin-ho, an independent, are set ...

W hen you think of shipwrecks you may think of an older time when the ocean was the only way to cross the Atlantic and radar had yet to be invented. Indeed, scientists have estima ...

She was one of the roughly 300 who died when the Sewol ferry sank 10 years ago on Tuesday, in one of South Korea's worst peacetime disasters.

The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsized off the southwestern coast of the peninsula on the morning of April 16, 2014. Sewol’s departure from the port of Incheon the night before had been ...

Catholic bishops in South Korea have urged the government to make the lives and safety of its citizens “its top priority,” to prevent tragedies like the Sewol Ferry disaster that claimed 306 lives.

Aug. 10 (UPI) --South Korea said no tampering of evidence, including of surveillance camera footage, occurred relating to the 2014 sinking of the ferry Sewol as a 90-day investigation concluded ...

On April 16, 2014, the MV Sewol ferry capsized near the southwestern shores of South Korea, with 476 passengers on board, including 325 pupils on a school trip. Very few of them survived because ...

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (UPI) --A South Korean court ordered the government ... and Cheonghaejin Marine Co., the operator of the Sewol ferry. Advertisement The court acknowledged that the government ...