Topic: Park Geun-hye

Heirs of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee topped South Korea's most stock-rich people list thanks to the massive wealth they inherited after Lee died last year, according to the Korea CXO Institute.

The United States is moving to upgrade its missile defense systems stationed at overseas bases, including in South Korea, according to a Korean press report.

Heirs of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee will pay $11 billion in inheritance taxes, donate $900 million to domestic hospitals and give some 23,000 pieces of art to museums.

The newly elected mayors of Seoul and Busan have requested President Moon Jae-in pardon former presidents currently serving prison terms on corruption charges.

A South Korean court on Wednesday ruled against a group of comfort women seeking damages against Japan for wartime sex slavery, citing Tokyo's claim of state immunity against being sued in a foreign court.

The United Nations could be asking South Korea and other U.N. member states to do more to improve the human rights situation in North Korea.

A former South Korean prosecutor who abruptly resigned last week is soaring in a local poll ahead of a presidential election in 2022.

South Korea's main opposition politicians are calling for the enactment of a North Korean Human Rights Act.

The Trump administration's policies toward the two Koreas damaged the alliance with Seoul.

The resolution of the "comfort women" issue between South Korea and Japan hinges on a "sincere apology" from Tokyo, South Korea's president said.