Topic: Hwang Kyo

South Korea's ruling Democratic Party won a landslide in parliamentary elections held on Wednesday, a result which reflects the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and leaves it poised to implement its agenda.

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has issued a letter calling on her country's conservatives to band together ahead of general elections in April.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in may be concerned about Chinese retaliation if Seoul goes ahead with a decision to ban most foreign nationals traveling from China in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is taking heat from the political opposition for the escalating number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country.

South Korea reported a record number of confirmed patients of the new strain of coronavirus in one day, bringing the total number of people affected by the epidemic in the country to more than 50.

A maverick South Korean politician who previously ran for president abruptly left a party he helped create on Wednesday, citing differences with another leader of the center-right Bareunmirae Party.

South Korea's main opposition conservatives are demanding the resignation of new Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae a day after she replaced top prosecutors investigating corruption scandals.

A prominent South Korean lawmaker -- one of the few women in the National Assembly -- has been nominated to the position of justice minister.

Parents of a U.S. college student who died after being released from North Korea in 2017 met with a South Korean opposition politician in Seoul on Friday.

Speculation is growing in South Korea that the Trump administration is not ruling out the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the peninsula following remarks from U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.