The United States respects South Korea's decision to seek an early return of more than two dozen American military bases in the country and will work with its ally to get the bases returned "as expeditiously as possible," U.S. Forces Korea said Tuesday.South Korea's presidential office Che

The Korea Post Chief Editor Kim Hyung-dae interviewed Woo Kyung-ha, International Relations Ambassador of Busan Metropolitan City in relation to the city’s hosting the Korea-ASEAN Special Summit in November and other issues. A summary of the interview follows: Question: What are your

The proportion of people in South Korea aged 65 years or older could increase sharply amid a rapidly aging population, the country's statistics agency said Monday.Statistics Korea forecast that the country's population is likely to reach 39 million in 2067, sharply down from 51.7 million in

The United States on Friday sanctioned three shipping firms for allegedly engaging in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum goods to North Korea.The U.S. Treasury Department announced the measures on its website, adding that the companies are based in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The South Korean armed forces launched a two-day military exercise to defend the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Sunday, in a show of its staunch defense stance against Japan's repeated sovereignty over the cluster of rocks in the East Sea.The Navy announced that the drill involves Navy, Air Forc

North Korea fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea's military said, ratcheting up tensions even after the end of a joint military exercise between the South and the United States.The projectiles were fired at 6:45 a.m. and 7

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's top electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, has signed a deal with an affiliate of China's largest lithium producer to secure a key material used for EV batteries, industry sources said Friday.According to the sources, LG Chem inked the deal to secure lithium hydroxi

The Japanese government has authorized a second shipment of an industrial material under its export restrictions to South Korea, informed sources said Monday.According to industry and government sources here, Tokyo has recently approved a request from a local manufacturer to export photoresist to So

South Korea called in a Japanese diplomat Monday to demand Tokyo's explanation on its reported plan to discharge into the Pacific Ocean contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown.The move came amid Seoul's push to reverse Tokyo's recent export curbs through bilater

South Korea is still reviewing the timing and the scale of semiannual maritime defense drills to be held on and around its easternmost islets of Dokdo, the defense ministry said Monday.This year's drills have been pushed back amid an escalating trade row with Japan stemming from differences over

President Moon Jae-in called on North Korea and the United States on Monday to seize the current chance to achieve denuclearization and lasting peace, as Seoul and Washington are wrapping up their combined military drills.The allies kicked off the "command-post" exercise on Aug. 5. In response, No

The United States is committed to maintaining close relationships with both South Korea and Japan, the State Department said Friday amid reports that Washington's top diplomat expressed his support for Tokyo's view on the issue of wartime forced labor. Japanese media have repo

President Moon Jae-in made some nice words about Japan on the Liberation Day of Korea from Japan on Aug. 15, 2019. This was sheer surprise to many Koreans, if not all of them, because most had Koreans had anticipated some scathing criticisms against Japan as Prime Minister Shintaro Abe had continued

President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that South Korea will "gladly hold" Japan's hand if the neighboring nation chooses dialogue and cooperation in an escalating trade row stemming from differences over wartime forced labor.Moon made the remarks in his Liberation Day address commemorating the 1

Professor Kim Dae-jong of Business Administration at Sejong University in Seoul appeared on the MBC News Special Talk Program on Aug. 2, 2019.The debate on the day was "Excluded from ‘White Country List’ of Japan, what are our countermeasures?" The discussion took place with Jin Chang-su, a senior

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday the fundamentals of the Korean economy remain strong despite heightened economic uncertainty and called for vigilance against potential negative impacts by fake news on financial markets. The president ordered government officials to sternly tackle growing economic

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday the fundamentals of the Korean economy remain strong despite heightened economic uncertainty and called for vigilance against potential negative impacts by fake news on financial markets. The president ordered government officials to sternly tackle growing economic

North Korea showed off yet another newly developed missile last week, indicating that the regime has been focusing on the modernization of its conventional weapons system as nuclear negotiations with the United States have remained stalled, experts said Monday. On Saturday, North Korea fired two sho

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his will to restart negotiations on its nuclear program with the United States "as soon as" the joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington is over.The North Korean leader also pledged to stop missile

The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States were set to meet in Seoul on Friday to discuss regional security and other alliance issues, the defense ministry said, amid North Korea's saber-rattling against their joint exercise and frayed ties between Seoul and Tokyo. The talks between