Latest news: South Korea

An ACT Government trade mission will visit South Korea and Japan this week focused on the electrification of the ACT. 

South Korea has fired warning shots toward a North Korean vessel that crossed the maritime border, amid recent tension over the North's missile tests.

A South Korean national about to board a plane to Sydney has been arrested after security staff at Melbourne airport allegedly found $370,000 in cash in his carry-on luggage. 

A second Australian woman has died following a crowd crush that claimed more than 150 lives in the South Korean capital over Halloween.

South Korea's police chief says officers didn't effectively handle earlier emergency calls about an impending deadly crush of Halloween partygoers.

As the death toll from the South Korean Halloween stampede rises to 154, the country's leader has promised a thorough investigation.

Grace Rached, a 23-year-old Sydney film production assistant, has been identified as the Australian killed in a deadly Halloween tragedy in South Korea.

South Korea is a country in national mourning after a Halloween crush killed some 153 people in a packed nightlife area in the country's capital.

An Australian citizen has died after being caught up in a stampede in the capital of South Korea on Saturday night after a crowd became unruly.

South Korea has lifted almost all of its COVID-19 precautions in a major step towards a return to normal life as the Omicron variant recedes and daily infections retreated to a more than two-month low of fewer than 50,000.

South Korea's first domestically built space rocket has blasted off but failed to fully place a dummy satellite into orbit, delivering mixed results for a test launch that represents a major leap for the country's ambitious space plans.

South Korea's daily COVID-19 infections topped 3000 for the first time as an outbreak fuelled by this week's three-day holiday spreads, authorities say.