SEOUL — When South Korea hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, it was a coming-out party for a poor country still recovering from the ruins of the Korean War. Fast-forward to today, and South ...

In downtown Seoul’s Olympic Museum, Rocky Yoon is about as excited for the 2018 Olympics as anyone can be. “I still vividly remember the smell of the fresh paint during the Olympic Games,” said Yoon.

South Korea is known as one of the most technologically and economically advanced countries in the world. This development has enabled the country to host arguably the three largest sporting events: ...

SEOUL, South Korea - A Korean boxer who knew he didn't deserve his gold raised the hand of an American who felt cheated, and with that noble gesture of sportsmanship ended an Olympics that will be ...

Two years ahead of the 2018 Olympic Games slated for Pyeongchang, South Korea, a new Associated Press report charges that South Korea committed widespread human rights violations in the years prior to ...

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. This story was published in The ...

FAIRFAX, Virginia, June 2. EN route to the Seoul Olympic Park, I worried, "Should I not be spending this day, one of my five days in South Korea, seeing another heritage site, maybe one of the ...