Sources: BBC News
In South Korea, five-term National Assembly lawmaker Kim Byung-kee is elected as floor leader of the Democratic Party, replacing acting party leader Park Chan-dae. 2025-06-13
A court in South Korea sentences former justice minister Cho Kuk to two years in prison after convicting him on charges of abuse of power and for helping his children enter prestigious schools using fake credentials. 2023-02-3
South Korea reports a record 109 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,015. 2021-12-23
South Korea claims that North Korea has launched several short range missiles into the Sea of Japan. 2016-03-3
North Korea's state media says Kim Yang-gon, a top aide to supreme leader Kim Jong-un and secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), who was also in charge of ties with South Korea, dies in a car crash. 2015-12-29
Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, Rwanda, and South Korea are elected to the United Nations Security Council for two-year terms starting in 2013.2012-10-18
At least 57 people are dead and 12 are confirmed missing in the Seoul and Siheung region of South Korea due to landslides caused by heavy rain. 2011-07-28
Kim Sung-hwan, the South Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs, meets with Pak Ui-chun, his North Korean counterpart, on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Bali, Indonesia. 2011-07-23
South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat, Oman, to Mogadishu, Somalia. 2011-02-16
South Korea and the European Union sign a free trade agreement. 2010-10-6