South Korea’s legislature has approved extra fiscal stimulus of more than $20 billion for the new government under President ...

Births have risen for 10 consecutive months, but the world's lowest fertility rate remains far below replacement levels.

T oday, south Korea’s COVID-19 response strategy sits atop three pillars: fast and free testing, expansive tracing technology, and mandatory isolation of the most severe cases. Each pillar was ...

South Korea is one of the only countries in the world that has brought a major COVID-19 outbreak under control. It's not currently enforcing stay-at-home orders, and most businesses are open.

SEOUL -- South Korea has widely been praised for its relatively successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to its rigorous contact tracing, mass testing capacity, and high degree of ...

South Korea had tested a total of 66,652 people for the COVID-19 coronavirus virus as of 4 p.m. local time Thursday, whereas Japan had reported administering roughly 1,890 tests and the U.S. only 445.

More than half of South Korea’s coronavirus cases are linked to Shincheonji members, and more 9,000 members are in quarantine, the government has said.

In South Korea, the rate of testing has been quite high (3,692 tests per million people as of March 8), and its mortality among those infected quite low (about 0.6%, or 66 deaths, at last count).

How South Korea accelerated its coronavirus testing, while early missteps left the U.S. lagging far behind, is a story of flexibility, preparedness and painful lessons from a past fumble.

A North Korean man who identified himself as a civilian crossed the heavily fortified military demarcation line between the ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a former vice finance minister, Koo Yun-cheol, to be ...

South Korea is determined to boost its birth rate, having joined Japan as a "super-aged" society, with more than 20 percent of the population now over 65.