Lee Ho-yul, a career diplomat serving as minister at the South Korean Embassy in Mexico, will serve as the country's ambassador to Cuba, with which South Korea established diplomatic relations in February last year, the ministry said in a release. ■ (2nd LD) BOK warns of growing U.S. stock market volatility, policy uncertainty

Korea-US rate gap remains as wide as 1.5 percentage points With the US Federal Reserve in no hurry to cut its key rate again, the Bank of Korea is likely to slow down on loosening its monetary policy,

War, weak growth, and policy uncertainty around Trump’s return already threaten the Korean economy. An extended political crisis will make things worse.

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is expected to slow down the pace of its monetary easing as the U.S. Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts and adopts a more cautious stance toward inflation, market experts said on Thursday.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean prosecutors on Sunday indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law, a criminal charge ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s controversial pick to serve as Health and Human Services secretary — will face a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy will sit before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee the following day.

U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.5%.

Diplomacy: President Trump has pushed to “clean out” the Gaza Strip, including by asking Egypt and Jordan to take in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. His suggestion drew flat rejections from those countries, two of the most important U.S. allies in the Middle East.

Yonhap news agency says South Korean prosecutors have indicted the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his imposition of martial law.

Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in connection to insurrection charges. South Korea’s parliament voted to impeach Yoon last month after he briefly

South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol bows down as he speaks to the nation at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea Yoon, whose fate would be decided by Constitutional Court in coming weeks ...

South Korea really ought to be doing better. Inflation is easing nicely and, as a major exporter, the nation stood to benefit from an upswing in global growth. The American economy is outperforming, and China has taken some important steps to put a floor under its subpar expansion.