North Korean state media on Thursday reported for the first time on the outcome of South Korea's presidential election held earlier this week.

South Korea’s newly sworn-in President is vowing to restore the country’s economic stability in the wake of his party’s ...

As far as Koreans are concerned, the chance for their leader to chat with the American president comes not a moment too soon, ...

Lee Jae-myung, whose government inherits economic challenges and a politically fragmented society, began his term early on ...

Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality ...

South Korea's transformation from colonial subjugation and a war-ravaged state into one of the world's leading economies and ...

Lives Lived: From the moment he signed with the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, Shigeo Nagashima was baseball royalty. He led his team to nine consecutive championships in a decade-spanning postwar dynasty that ...

President Lee Jae-myung said he'll pursue pragmatic diplomacy and boost a trilateral Seoul-Washington-Tokyo cooperation based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance. Lee won a snap election Tuesday for a ...

Images from the election of South Korea’s new president, liberal Lee Jae-myung, are everything you’d expect to see in one of ...

The newly elected President defeated an increasingly authoritarian rival party. Can he bring the country back together?

South Korea’s presidential election result was never really in doubt. The real question is which version of Lee Jae-myung ...

At age 14 he was an impoverished factory worker. On Wednesday, he became the leader of one of Asia’s most powerful economies, ...