South Korean President ⁠Lee ⁠Jae Myung called ⁠on Saturday for talks with North Korea to ​pursue peaceful coexistence, saying Seoul would seek safeguards to prevent ‌conflict and noting the need ‌to replace the peninsula's armistice with a "peace regime".

President Trump wants to curtail military exercises with South Korea, saying they were hostile to North Korea. But under Mr. Kim, the North has become increasingly belligerent toward the South.

Record temperatures sweeping East Asia are showing up even beneath the soil in South Korea, where a farmer said potatoes that had appeared healthy ended up underground "like boiled potatoes," The Guardian reported.

China’s foreign minister will visit Seoul on Wednesday, as South Korea’s president seeks a formal end to the war with North Korea, China’s ally. The conflict has been frozen since the 1950s. On Sunday Donald Trump said America would scale back military exercises with the South,

Wang will also hold talks and ​a luncheon ⁠with National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac, where they are expected to exchange views on South Korea-China relations, developments o

Plans for a large-scale green hydrogen complex at Saemangeum in South Korea have been announced following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Korea South-East Power (KOEN) and the Saemangeum Development Agency.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Sunday (Aug 16) that warning shots had been fired when North Korean soldiers violated the military demarcation line between the countries, prompting them to return.