At 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 25, around 40 tourists wearing sunglasses were waiting for a boat at Sibang Port in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, despite it being a weekday. With suitcases, fishing rods, and ...

Salt is farmed in huge quantities on remote islands in South Korea. These islands are nicknamed "slave islands" by local media because the salt is often harvested by mostly mentally disabled ...

The small islands, called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, have been at the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the two countries. A public uproar arose in South Korea ...