Moon Jae-in has taken the oath of office in Seoul hours after starting work as South Korea's new president.

Liberal candidate Moon Jae-in has declared victory in South Korea's presidential election after his two major rivals conceded defeat.

Samsung yesterday forecast its best quarterly profit in three years, for the three months to the end of March, beating expectations. That has put it on track for record annual earnings, on the back of a memory chip super-cycle.

Supporters of arrested former president Park Geun-hye have begun rallying in South Korea's capital to call for her release.

An election will be held in May to choose a successor to ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye, who has caused anger by leaving her nine dogs in the presidential palace.

Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has denied any wrongdoing after being removed from office over a massive corruption scandal.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of central Seoul today to celebrate the ousting of President Park Geun-hye.

The removal of South Korean President Park Geun-hye by the country's Constitutional Court ends a power struggle that has consumed the nation for months.

South Korean prosecutors have charged Samsung chief Jae-yong Lee with bribery and embezzlement as the top conglomerate announced the dismantling of its corporate strategy office, the latest developments in a graft scandal that has rocked the country.

South Korea's parliament has voted to strip the president of her power.

South Korea's embattled president has said she will resign if parliament produces a plan for the safe transfer of power.

After a freeze of more than three years, the leaders of South Korea and Japan resumed formal talks focusing on North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear bombs, and a long-running dispute over Japan’s wartime atrocities.

South Korea says it has agreed to halt propaganda broadcasts after North Korea expressed regret over a recent land mine blast that maimed two South Korean troops.

Propaganda broadcasts at North Korea will continue unless Pyongyang apologises for a land mine attack that maimed two soldiers, South Korea’s president said.

North and South Korea appeared headed toward another clash, as Seoul refused an ultimatum that it halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by this afternoon or face military action, and North Korea said its troops were on a war footing.

South fires back at North over propaganda broadcasts at border.

Tears and grief mixed with anger as relatives mourned the 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, killed a year ago when the ferry Sewol sank in cold waters off the South Korean coast.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is open to a summit with his South Korean counterpart.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is open to a summit with his South Korean counterpart.

North Korea has hurled racial slurs at President Barack Obama as the communist state blamed the US for shutting down its internet amid the Sony hacking row.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is this year’s winner of the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel Prize.

Speculation about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is mounting after his name was missing from a list of dignitaries celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Warships from the rival Koreas have exchanged warning shots after a North Korean ship briefly crossed the disputed western sea boundary.

Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Asia yesterday by challenging Koreans — from the North and the South — to reject the “mindset of suspicion and confrontation” that clouds their relations and find new ways to forge peace on the war-divided peninsula. 

Pope Francis has wrapped up his first trip to Asia by challenging Koreans, both North and the South, to reject the “mindset of suspicion and confrontation” that clouds their relations.

Pope Francis called for renewed efforts to forge peace on the war-divided Korean Peninsula and for both sides to avoid "fruitless" criticisms and shows of force, opening a five-day visit to South Korea with a message of reconciliation as Seoul’s rival, North Korea, fired five projectiles into the sea.

North Korea has fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said, on the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s talks in Seoul expected to focus on the North’s nuclear weapons programme.

A ferry operator’s chief executive and four employees caused the sinking of a South Korean ship , prosecutors claimed today.

Fifteen crew members from the sunken South Korean ferry have appeared in court before hostile spectators to enter pleas on charges of negligence and failing to save more than 300 dead or missing passengers.

North Korea has accused US and South Korean authorities of fabricating the results of a probe that concluded Pyongyang sent small surveillance drones, or unmanned aircraft, to spy on key South Korean installations in March.

South Korea has continued an escalating rhetorical battle on the Korean Peninsula, with an official saying rival North Korea “must disappear soon”.

The United States has condemned as "ugly and disrespectful" racist comments directed at Barack Obama by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, comparing the US president to a black "monkey" in a zoo.

Two weeks after a ferry sank off South Korea’s southern cost, divers have recovered 212 bodies from the wreckage, but they are still fighting strong currents and floating debris in the search for 90 passengers who are still missing.

North Korea has conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said.

South Korea has expressed outrage over an attack on its president by the North Korean government that likened her to a prostitute.

North Korea represents a threat not just to Asia but to the US, US President Barack Obama said yesterday, as he and South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye warned they would respond firmly to any “provocations”.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has said the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry committed “unforgivable, murderous acts” in the disaster, which left more than 300 people dead or missing.

Strong currents and poor visibility hampered rescuers in the search for 287 passengers still missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped on to its side and filled with cold water off the southern coast of South Korea.

Parents of hundreds of missing teenagers aboard the stricken ferry off the coast of South Korea hired rescue boats to join the search overnight as hopes of finding survivors faded.

Former US basketball star Dennis Rodman led an auditorium of North Koreans in singing Happy Birthday to their leader yesterday.

China’s foreign ministry has accused Japan’s prime minister of hypocrisy and said he would not be welcome in China after he visited a shrine honouring Japan’s war dead.

Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square today in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant.