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July 16, 2024

Asia

Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South

By Editors Desk

Getty Images / Details on North Koreans defections often take months to come to light

June 24, 2024

Asia

22 killed in lithium battery plant fire in South Korea

Majority of the dead were workers who emigrated from China, officials say

By Editors Desk

Emergency crews responded Monday to a deadly fire at a lithium battery factory near South Korea's capital.

May 29, 2024

Asia

North Korea sends poo balloons to South

Kim Jong-un has found a new, and gross, way of annoying South Korea – with a flotilla of excrement filled balloons sent across the border.

By Editors Desk

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un giving a speech during a visit to the Academy of National Defence Science to celebrate its 60th anniversary in Pyongyang this month. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

January 20, 2024

Asia

WORLD Seoul police chief indicted over 2022 Halloween crush that killed more than 150 people

By Editors Desk

January 19, 2024

Asia

North Korea claims to test nuclear-capable drone, warns US of ‘catastrophic consequences’

Pyongyang called the exercises “an act of seriously threatening the security” of North Korea that further destabilized the situation in the region, according to state media.

South Korea, the US and Japan conduct a trilateral exercise featuring the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the waters and air south of Jeju island between January 15 and 17, 2024. South Korea's Defence Ministry

January 15, 2024

Asia

N. Korea abolishes agencies working for reunification with South Korea

North Korea is formally abolishing a handful of key government agencies charged with promoting cooperation and reunification with the South, state media reported Tuesday.

By Editors Desk

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attends a meeting Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at the party's headquarters, in Pyongyang, North Korea on December 31, 2023. © Korean Central News Agency via Reuters

January 02, 2024

Asia

South Korean opposition leader stabbed, rushed to hospital

Lee Jae-myung was attacked during a press conference in Busan.

By Editors Desk

South Korea's opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung speaks during his visit to Busan, South Korea, Jan. 2, 2024. Yonhap/via Reuters

December 28, 2023

Cinema

New details about actor’s sudden death

New details have emerged regarding the final days of Parasite star Lee Sun-kyun, after his shock death shook Hollywood.

By Editors Desk

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for his role in the Academy Award-winning film Parasite, has died at the age of 48. Picture: John Nacion/Getty Images

December 27, 2023

Cinema

The loss of actor Lee Sun-kyun casts a chill shadow over Korea’s film world

Lee, who has died aged 48, was a homegrown star who graduated to global fame in the multi-award-winning Parasite

By Editors Desk

Radiating smugness … Lee Sun-kyun with Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

November 28, 2023

World

North Korea defends satellite launch at UN as Kim studies images of White House

North Korea's ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country's launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon.

By Editors Desk

A TV screen shows a report of North Korea's spy satellite into orbit during a news programme at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on November 22, 2023. © Lee Jin-man, AP

November 23, 2023

Asia

North Korea to deploy new weapons to border after successful launch of spy satellite

North Korea said Thursday it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South, as Seoul's spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit.

By Editors Desk

October 20, 2023

National Security

US soldier Travis King charged with desertion after North Korea release

US soldier Travis King has been charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea and a raft of other crimes including assaulting fellow soldiers and soliciting child pornography, US media reported on Thursday.

By Editors Desk

A TV screen shows an image of American soldier Travis King at Seoul Railway Station in South Korea on Monday, July 24, 2023. © Ahn Young-joon, AP

August 18, 2023

Asia

Biden declares ‘new era’ of partnership with South Korea and Japan

The meeting marked the beginning of what the White House hopes will be an extended stretch of three-way engagement

By Editors Desk

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speak during a news conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit on Aug. 18. (Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images)

August 16, 2023

Asia

North Korea confirms detention of American soldier Travis King

North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army.

By Editors Desk

US Army soldier Travis King. © via Reuters - social media

July 18, 2023

Asia

US soldier held by North Korea after crossing border

North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily-fortified border from South Korea without permission.

By Editors Desk

AFP / South Korean soldiers stand guard in the village of Panmunjom in the Joint Security Area

June 28, 2023

Asia

South Koreans become younger under new age-counting law

South Koreans have become a year or two younger as a new law aligns the nation's two traditional age-counting methods with international standards.

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / South Koreans will turn a year or two younger under a new law

April 15, 2023

Asia

Nation paying recluses to ‘re-enter society’

One country is paying its “lonely” young people a staggering $743 each and every month for a truly baffling reason.

By Editors Desk

Lonely young South Koreans are getting paid $743 to ‘re-enter society’.

March 20, 2023

Society

This country wanted a 69-hour workweek. Millennials and Generation Z had other ideas

The current law limits the work week to 40 hours plus up to 12 hours of compensated overtime – though in reality, critics say, many workers find themselves under pressure to work longer.

By Editors Desk

January 02, 2023

Africa

Biden Says No Nuclear Drills With Seoul After Yoon’s Comments

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden said he isn’t currently discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea after that country’s president said his government wanted a more active role in managing atomic weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

By Editors Desk

Biden's administration announced $1.85 billion in a

December 09, 2022

Asia

South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law

The law passed Thursday will standardize the use of international age across all “judicial and administrative areas,” according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill.

By Editors Desk