North Korea closed its borders five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they have remained shut ever since.

Representatives from two Western travel agencies crossed into North Korea Thursday for the first time since the isolated ...

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg lowered their estimates for South Korea’s economic growth two weeks before the central bank ...

Seoul says North Korea is destroying facility that hosted reunions of war-separated families - North Korea is demolishing a ...

The diverging trajectories of North Korea’s state and society over the last year are striking. The government has reaped ...

President Donald Trump’s second term has rekindled hopes for North Korea’s denuclearization, but the recent shift in his ...

KELLY is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pusan National University. With democracies around the world under duress, South Korea seems to stand out as an example of resilience.

The rise of the gig economy has fundamentally reshaped many ... throughout the U.S. and in the Philippines, Ukraine, South Korea and India. Work is accomplished around the clock; when I’m ...

North Korea conducted its first weapons test since U.S. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, firing off "strategic" cruise missiles — code for nuclear-capable weapons — as ...

Constant propaganda as well as limited access to ammunition — or even toilet paper — were the stark realities of being in North Korea's army, a former soldier told Business Insider.

SEOUL – South Korea’s economy barely grew in the fourth quarter of 2024, as the country’s worst political crisis in decades hurts already weakened domestic demand and threatens to further ...

SOUTH Korea’s economy continued to sputter last quarter, after President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law battered consumer confidence at a time when export growth is slowing.