Celebrity, or "idol", culture in South Korea is notoriously intense, with singers and actors held to high standards by both ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling that acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial criminal charges over a ...

Samsung Electronics chief Lee Jae-yong was cleared again Monday of a raft of charges linked to a controversial 2015 merger which prosecutors claimed was designed to seal his control of the South ...