The recent anti-China sentiment spreading among South Korea's conservative bloc suggests these groups are playing the "China card" to advance their political agenda, Beijing's top envoy to Seoul has said.

The South Korean government has moved to tighten restrictions on foreign land ownership across 17 key locations, including 12 islands along the country’s western and southern coastlines and five northwestern islands near the inter-Korean maritime border.

South Korea is lagging behind or matching China in "basic competency" in five areas of semiconductor technology, including memory chips and artificial intelligence (AI) chips, according to a report released last week by the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning.

We’ve heard this before, and nothing came to pass, but the signs are looking positive that mainland China is finally removing its unofficial ban on Korean culture and content, possibly as early as this May.

South Korea's business leaders are taking action to offset the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policies, hiring his former aides and lobbying Republican states out of frustration with delays by their own government which is mired in a political crisis.

A report says a fleet of Chinese distant-water fishing vessels used North Korean crews in violation of U.N. bans and many were apparently subjected to abuses including being trapped at sea for years.

South Korean National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik this month undertook a five-day visit to China to discuss, according to South Korean media, issues such as deepening economic ties and preserving historical sites linked to Korea's independence movement.

In February 2024, North Korea accepted about 100 Russian tourists, the first foreign nationals to visit the country for sightseeing. That surprised many observers, who thought the first post-pandemic tourists would come from China, North Korea’s biggest trading partner and major ally.

The Trump administration is proposing fees on the use of China's commercial ships that it says could help counter the country's maritime dominance.

Pyongyang blasted the U.S. "provocations," including last week's ICBM test-launch and a nuclear submarine's port call at Busan, South Korea.

After the pandemic began, North Korea quickly banned tourists, jetted out diplomats and severely curtailed border traffic in one of the world’s most draconian COVID-19 restrictions. But since 2022, North Korea has been slowly easing curbs and reopening its borders.