Coming off a solid win over Bahrain earlier in the week, South Korea will try to move closer to a knockout berth at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup when they take on Jordan on Saturday in Qatar.
The
With the South Korean eastern province of Gangwon set to host the Winter Youth Olympics six years after staging the country’s first-ever Winter Games, the youth event represents “legacy in action,” a senior official with the International Olympic Comm…
Police have started looking into the handling of a drug investigation of late actor Lee Sun-kyun, officials said Thursday, after a group of filmmakers and actors urged for an inquiry into his death.
Lee, best known for his role in
The 2024 Winter Youth Olympics taking place in South Korea’s Gangwon Province has a few “firsts” to its credit.
This is the first Winter Youth Games taking place outside Europe, with Austria, Norway and Switzerland having held the previous three
An opposition lawmaker who attended an official ceremony with President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday was carried out by presidential security agents after what Yoon’s office described as shouting and pulling on the president’s hand.
Rep. Kang Sung-hee o…
The anti-corruption investigation office has raided the office of Marine Corps Commandant Lt. Gen. Kim Kye-hwan over an alleged influence-peddling case related to the death of a young Marine last year, multiple sources said Thursday.
The Corruption I…
The top U.S. nuclear envoy for North Korea expressed deep concern Thursday over North Korea’s belligerent rhetoric against South Korea, saying it is increasing “unnecessary” tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Jung Pak, U.S. senior official for North K…
South Korean supernatural mystery thriller “Exhuma” has been invited to this year’s Berlin International Film Festival set to kick off next month, the film’s local distributor said Thursday.
The film starring Choi Min-sik will be shown at the Forum s…
The number of North Korean defectors who arrived in South Korea came to 196 last year amid a rise in defections by North Korean diplomats and trade officials, government data showed Thursday.
The defections by 32 men and 164 women
North Korea on Thursday lambasted senior officers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces for visiting a war shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s militaristic past.
The criticism came after Lt. Gen. Hiroki Kobayashi, vice chief of staff of the Ground