South Korean golfer Park In-bee has lost an LPGA major in a sudden-death playoff. Park fell to Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden on the eighth playoff hole at Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, on Monday (local time). The sudden-death showdown was contested over two days because Park and Lindberg remained deadlocked after four playoff holes on Sun...

South Korea's private spending fell to record low levels last year, according to the central bank Tuesday. Data from the Bank of Korea showed the ratio of private spending to the country's gross domestic product came to 48.1 percent, the lowest since record keeping began in 1970. The ratio used to run in the 70 percentile in the 1970s, but it slid to 53.8 percent in 2000 and further to 49.3 per...

South Korea's consumer prices increased more than 1 percent in March on a rise in the costs of agricultural goods and services, but growth slowed from a month earlier, government data showed Tuesday. The country's consumer price index climbed 1.3 percent last month from March of the previous year, decelerating from the 1.4 percent on-year gain in February, according to the data compiled by Stati...

President Moon Jae-in will attend a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of a bloody massacre on the country's southern island of Jeju on Tuesday, becoming the first head of state to do so in a decade, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said. The liberal president is set to join some 15,000 attendees, including the surviving victims of the Jeju April 3 incident and bereaved families...

South Korea is seeking a denuclearization declaration from the upcoming summit with North Korea, a presidential official said Tuesday. The official said it's a "matter of course" to seek such a declaration because denuclearization is one of the three key agenda items for the April 27 summit, along with bringing permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations. The of...

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) on Monday finalized its own proposal for a constitutional revision aimed at drastically curtailing presidential powers, foreshadowing tough negotiations with the ruling Democratic Party. During a general meeting of its lawmakers, the party decided to push for a power-sharing government model under which the president takes control of security, diplom...

Prosecutors said Monday they again requested a court warrant to arrest former provincial Gov. An Hee-jung on sex offense charges. The Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office said it filed for the writ against the former chief of South Chungcheong Province on charges of sexual intercourse and harassment by force and abuse of occupational authority. It comes less than a week after the prosecut...

South Korean tennis player Chung Hyeon has cracked the top 20 in the men's world rankings for the first time. Chung climbed four spots to a new career-high No. 19 in the latest ATP Tour's singles rankings released on Monday. Chung Hyeon of South Korea hits a shot against John Isner of the United States during their quarterfinal match at the Miami Open on the ATP Tour in Miami, Florida, on March...

PYONGYANG -- Sports minister of the two Koreas on Monday agreed to push for a joint march by their athletes at this year's Asian Games. During their meeting at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, South Korean Sports Minister Do Jong-whan and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Il-guk, discussed ways to expand inter-Korean sports exchanges. They also agreed to engage in more specific talks on ...

Korea has officially designated taekwondo as its national martial art. The National Assembly on Friday passed a revised act on taekwondo promotion, which states that the sport is the Korean national martial art. The amendment bill was signed by 225 lawmakers led by the Bareunmirae Party's Lee Dong-sup, who heads the National Assembly Taekwondo Federation. (Yonhap) Taekwondo has customarily be...

South Korea has detected an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease at a pig farm west of Seoul, near the farm that reported the first case this year, the agriculture ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it has detected an additional FMD outbreak at the farm in Gimpo, 30 kilometers northwest of the capital city, during an inspection into its livestock....

Comedian and TV presenter Kim Saeng-min offered an apology Monday following sexual harassment complaints. In a statement released by his agency, SM C&C, he acknowledged that he committed "wrong behavior" 10 years ago at a dinner with production staff members of a TV program he was in. "I didn't realize at that time that she was hurt and I heard about it only recently. I knew it was too late, bu...

PYONGYANG/SEOUL -- South Korea will air its art troupe's performance in Pyongyang on Thursday afternoon, the culture ministry said. The 160-member group, including top singers, staged South Korea's first performance in more than a decade in the North on Sunday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju attended the show. They will hold a joint concert with the North's artists on Tu...

The acting US ambassador to South Korea said Monday a complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program remains a "nonnegotiable" US goal in its upcoming talks with Pyongyang. During a forum in Seoul, Marc Knapper said the US is "hopeful but realistic" in its expectations for the upcoming summit between the leaders of the US and North Korea, citing more than tw...