The toughest external challenges awaiting a new president are U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy and North Korea’s advancing nuclear program.

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is projected to be the new president following a snap election on Tuesday, ...

A left-leaning politician who said South Korea should not be as “antagonizing” toward communist U.S. adversaries is poised to ...

Results of a South Korean election sparked by an impeachment appear set to bring Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party into the presidency.

Exactly six months after impeached president Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed attempt to invoke martial law, some political stability ...

Facing a complex set of thorny challenges at home and abroad, Lee Jae-myung says he will deal with them with “pragmatism.” ...