SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he intended to stick to existing agreements with Japan tied to its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, including one on the treatment of Korean women forced to work in its military brothels.

When Presidents Lee Jae Myung and Donald J. Trump meet at the White House, they’ll have much to celebrate as they bolster U.S.-South Korea relations.

The popular holiday island has issued visitor guidelines for the first time as it sees an increasing number of tourists.

Ten South Korean petrochemical companies have agreed to restructure their operations, including large cuts to their naphtha-cracking capacity, government officials said on Wednesday.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power may link up with Westinghouse on deals as they try to put lengthy legal dispute behind them

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also contribute its TACHELES cubesat. While Artemis 2 will send astronauts around the moon, the cubesats will have their own science objectives.

Since taking office in a snap election in June, the liberal Lee has taken steps to lower tensions with the nuclear-armed North, and the issue is one where he is expected to find common ground with Trump, who still boasts of his historic summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Investors in the region are awaiting India's HSBC Composite flash purchasing managers' index reading for August expected later in the day.