The United States and South Korea kicked off their annual summertime joint military exercise on Monday, amid efforts by Seoul to improve relations with North Korea.

South Korea will review an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Co. to resolve a nuclear power intellectual property dispute after local media reported the deal’s potentially unfavorable terms.

Lee and Trump will hold their first summit meeting on August 25 to discuss strengthening the countries' alliance and economic security partnership, including advancing a partnership in the manufacturing sector based on a tariff deal reached last month, Lee's office said previously.

Torrential rain that has battered South Korea’s greater capital region for two days has started easing, but not before claiming at least one life.

South Korea's nuclear power output is racing ahead of official targets due to fewer maintenance outages, a new plant coming online and reactors running at full tilt, helping to rein in generation costs and pushing down coal usage.

A Korean champion of stillness reveals why giving your brain blank space can spark creativity, clarity, and calm.

Ahn Hak-sop (center), a former North Korean soldier, speaks to a police officer as he walks towards a military checkpoint on the Tongil bridge, the road leading to the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, in the border city of Paju on Aug. 20. (Photo: AFP)

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, including one on the treatment of Korean women forced to work in its military brothels.