Compared to the US, where the military is voluntary, and you can pursue it as a career, in Korea, 2 years of service is mandatory, and everyone is forced to do it. More from Military & Defense ...

a number that is likely to drop off dramatically as political tensions rise between North Korea and the USA. What makes this country so different to others? And what do tourists experience when ...

South Korea is reeling after a whiplash six hours during which the country’s embattled president declared martial law but was forced to lift it amid widespread condemnation, throwing the country ...

News site Bloomberg explains on its YouTube channel how it became one of the nuclear powers and what it plans to do with its nuclear weapons. North Korea is one of several nuclear-weapon states ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

Sixteen million people suffer from malnutrition in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – also known as North Korea. The country is also prone to natural disasters. In DPRK, people must ...

Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody. Yoon, 64, is being ...