Wildfires in South Korea have intensified, becoming the worst natural disaster in history with 28 fatalities and extensive damage across multiple regions.

The wildfires in March devastated an area larger than the Los Angeles fire and two-thirds the size of Singapore to become its ...

In the 1960s, GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorest countries in the world. In 2004, South Korea's GDP surpassed one trillion dollars. Beginning in the 1960s under President ...