President Lee Jae Myung has met with a group of creatives behind the smash-hit Netflix animated film "KPop Demon Hunters" and pledged to cultivate South Korea's

For K-pop to grow as a global industry, Korea must expand its performance infrastructure, foster balanced development across the arts and provide decisive government support — without control or interference, said President Lee Jae Myung during a televised appearance on the Arirang TV special “K-pop: The Next Chapter,” which aired on Wednesday.

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who has been seeking to improve strained relations with Pyongyang, ordered on Monday his cabinet to prepare a partial step-by-step implementation of existing agreements with North Korea.

President Lee Jae Myung (left) and first lady Kim Hea Kyung on Aug. 15 hold a certificate of appointment they received from 80 leading public figures at the "people's appointment ceremony" under the theme "80 Years of Liberation, Building the Future with National Sovereignty" at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. (Office of the President)

North Korea denounced South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as a powerless dreamer and dismissed Seoul as unworthy of diplomacy, in a blistering statement from Kim Yo-jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong-un.

Lee Jae Myung has been officially inaugurated as South Korea's president, marking the event with a "Citizen Appointment Ceremony". It is the first of its kind in the nation, largely meant to underscore the legitimacy of Mr Lee's government.

Kim Han-soo (right), director general for protocol and state council at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, on Aug. 13 gives a briefing at Government Complex-Seoul in Seoul's Jongno-gu District on the Aug.

Preorders for postage stamps celebrating President Lee Jae Myung's 100th day in office sold out on the first day of sales, according to Korea Post said on Wednesday.

In a speech to mark the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said he would restore the so-called September 19 Comprehensive Military Agreement, a de-escalation measure that halted some military activities at the border between North Korea and South Korea.

President Lee Jae Myung discussed reforms aimed at separating the prosecution's investigative and indictment functions with the new head of the Democratic Party (DP), the ruling party said Wednesday.