South Korea will tighten regulations on stock market listings to improve the quality and competitiveness, the financial regulator said on Tuesday, in the latest move by authorities aimed at making the domestic stock market more attractive to investors.

With the fate of suspended South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol hanging in the balance, the country has also been left facing an uncertain future as it battles through the resulting political turmoil.

A Seoul court issued a warrant Saturday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for an extended period over his botched martial law bid last month in the first such detention of a sitting South Korean president.

Foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Monday to discuss strengthening their relations in the face of increasing security challenges in the region and political tumult in the host nation.

Donald Trump was officially inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, introducing a flurry of policies tied to his campaign pledge to “Make America Great Again” from his first day in office.

Cyber actors from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) stole $659 million in cryptocurrency in 2024, according to a recently released joint statement by the US, Japan, and South Korea.

THE Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) has trimmed its 2025 growth projections for most of the 10 Asean member states, as well as China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea – a region that altogether contributes to more than 40 per cent of global growth.

The US, Japan and South Korea are urging public-private collaboration against the growing threat of North Korean hackers, which cost the industry $1.34 billion worth of crypto in 2024.

South Korea pledged on Monday a record amount of financing support for exporters to mitigate any negative impact from changes in U.S. trade policies as Donald Trump was poised to be sworn in for his second presidency.

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) --North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent trilateral air drills held by South Korea, the United ...

North Korea slammed military drills between South Korea, Japan, and the US, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defense "more intensively."