Inside a covert operation to bombard North Korea with pantyhose and nature films. In the summer winds, South Korean activists loft huge makeshift balloons filled with subversive materials and hygiene ...

Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife district in South Korea’s capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it’s the site of one of the country’s ...

There were few police officers around as a mass of revelers swelled. From within the crowd came calls to “push, push” and a big shove, according to witnesses. Then, they began to fall.

SEOUL — South Korea on Tuesday announced the closure of nightlife venues and in-person services at churches in the greater Seoul area after a coronavirus cluster of more than 400 cases emerged ...

On the night of May 1 and the early hours of May 2, a 29-year-old man visited several clubs in Itaewon, according to the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). On May 7 ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea emerged from a night of political turmoil to pro-democracy demonstrations and pronouncements but few firm answers as to what’s next after the leader of this ...

Reporting from Seoul, South Korea — The text messages arrived on Chrissy Royal’s phone at 3:23 a.m. “I got arrested [help] me,” said one. Then: “Yongsan police station.” It was a cool ...

But it’s also new, with much of its architecture rebuilt after the Korean War in the 1950s in pursuit of modernity. Meet Haeryun Kang Haeryun has lived in Seoul since 2014.