An international peace forum will open on the southern resort island of Jeju on Wednesday, with a focus on ways to facilitate North Korea's denuclearization and entrench a lasting peace on the peninsula, organizers said.The three-day Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity comes as Seoul seeks to cr

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday kept South Korea on a list of countries to monitor for currency practices but indicated its possible removal in the next reporting period.The list was revealed in a semiannual report to Congress that also named eight other trading partners as countries warrant

The number of foreigners staying in South Korea increased by nearly 9 percent last year, with the rate of illegal foreign workers also rising 15 percent, government data showed Tuesday.According to data released by the Ministry of Justice, 2,367,607 foreigners were residing in the country as of the

The foreign ministry said Tuesday it will file criminal complaints against one of its officials and an opposition lawmaker for leaking the content of a phone conversation between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump.The diplomat, who worked at the South Korean Embassy in Washington,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to transform his impoverished country thorough denuclearization, saying "only bad" can happen with his nuclear arms.Trump also said that though some of his advisors think the North's recent missile launches could have

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that the United States will not stop working to recover the remains of American soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.In a speech marking Memorial Day, Pence recounted the return of 55 cases of remains from North Korea last year following an agreement b

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said Saturday North Korea's latest missile launches are violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning the communist state from such weapons tests. He made the remark at a press conference in Tokyo, Reuters reported, ahead of a s

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has stressed the importance of close communication with Japan to address a simmering row over Tokyo's wartime forced labor during her talks with Japan's top diplomat Taro Kono in Paris, her ministry said Friday. The two top diplomats met on t

South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae has found the diplomat suspected of leaking the phone talks between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump to a lawmaker earlier this month, an official said Wednesday. Earlier this month, Rep. Khang Hyo-shang of the main opposition

The U.S. Department of State on Tuesday stressed U.N. member countries' enforcement of anti-North Korea sanctions after Pyongyang's top envoy to the world body renewed calls for the return of a seized ship suspected of violating sanctions.But it said that Washington is still open to nuclear

South Korea's foreign ministry and the Danish embassy hosted a bilateral forum on environmental cooperation and sustainable development in Seoul on Tuesday, the ministry here said.On the occasion of the official visit to Seoul by Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, Crown Princess Mary, th

South Korea will look prudently into Japan's request for the formation of an arbitration panel involving a third-country member to address the long-simmering issue of Tokyo's wartime forced labor, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.Earlier in the day, the ministry received a formal req

President Moon Jae-in had phone talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday, days after a South Korean hostage in Libya was released with the help of the UAE authorities.Moon expressed his gratitude to the UAE government and the crown prince, who

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wanted to remove only one or two of the five nuclear sites in his country during their summit in Hanoi in February.Trump made remarks in an interview with Fox News on Sunday (Washington time), reiterating his vow not to allow

South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Monday with Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, Crown Princess Mary, as they were on a visit to Seoul to mark the 60th anniversary of the two sides forging diplomatic ties.The Danish couple are leading a delegation with the aim of promoting bilate

The presidential office said Sunday that its efforts to create jobs have begun to bear fruit, citing some recent data."Given various statistics, the employment situation is improving, compared with that of last year. It is (still) difficult but hopeful," Jung Tae-ho, senior secretary to President

A South Korean man who was abducted in Libya last year has been released, Cheong Wa Dae announced Friday. The 62-year-old worker at a local firm was taken hostage by a group of around 10 armed militants on July 6. The man, identified only by his surname, Joo, was freed unharmed on Thursday (

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton referred to North Korea as a "pressing" challenge on Thursday after talks with Singapore's top diplomat.Bolton wrote on Twitter that he met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in Washington to discuss the two countries' ties.

South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee left the United States Thursday after making a last-minute pitch for South Korea's exemption from potential U.S. tariffs on imported cars and parts.At the end of her five-day trip to Washington, Yoo said she met with U.S. trade officials to underscore Se

South Korea will be exempted from potential U.S. tariffs on imported cars because the two sides have renegotiated their bilateral free trade agreement, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later this week that gives the European Union and Ja