JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The South Korean government will reduce subsidies for biomass energy after rising domestic and ...

JAKARTA — An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and ...

South Korea's government hopes a slew of new and upcoming policies will make a difference in its fight to reverse a looming population crisis. The nation's fertility rate, the lowest in the world ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff during which he defied their attempt to detain him.

JAKARTA – South Koreans are apparently some of the harshest people in the world when it comes to their presidents. Last week, lawmakers moved to remove President Yoon Suk-yeol from office following ...

On the first Election Day after Dobbs, PlanC, a nonprofit that provides information about access to abortion pills, posted a TikTok video encouraging people to vote to protect reproductive rights.

South Korean officials have vowed to find out what caused a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by Jeju Air to crash into flames as it attempted to land over the weekend, killing all but two of ...

Investigators probing the deadly crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 in South Korea have retrieved the initial data from one of the aircraft’s black boxes, officials have said. Joo Jong-wan, deputy ...

Police forensics personnel and National Bureau of Investigation officials are seen by a wall as they work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at ...

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A Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea became the country’s deadliest plane disaster in decades Sunday, killing 179 people with only two survivors and shocking the country and world, prompting an ...

After two leaders were impeached in as many weeks, a deadly plane crash has prompted South Korea’s feuding political camps to temporarily halt a protracted power struggle. In the immediate ...