Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality ...

ANALYSIS: Lee Jae Myung takes on the leadership of South Korea with one of the strongest public mandates in decades – but also facing the daunting task of renegotiating Seoul’s relationship with the ...

South Korea's transformation from colonial subjugation and a war-ravaged state into one of the world's leading economies and ...

President Lee Jae-myung said he'll pursue pragmatic diplomacy and boost a trilateral Seoul-Washington-Tokyo cooperation based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance. Lee won a snap election Tuesday for a ...

Lives Lived: From the moment he signed with the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, Shigeo Nagashima was baseball royalty. He led his team to nine consecutive championships in a decade-spanning postwar dynasty that ...

Images from the election of South Korea's new president, liberal Lee Jae-myung, are everything you’d expect to see in one of ...

Images from the election of South Korea's new president are as peaceful and orderly as you'd expect to see in any vibrant ...

The newly elected President defeated an increasingly authoritarian rival party. Can he bring the country back together?

At age 14 he was an impoverished factory worker. On Wednesday, he became the leader of one of Asia’s most powerful economies, ...

South Korea 's new President Lee Jae-myung vowed to reach out to the nuclear-armed North and "heal wounds" as he took office ...

Winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil, new South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his ...