North Korea Fires Missiles Amid US Diplomacy Push
North Korea has responded to talk of a Trump-Kim reunion with missiles, not an olive branch. At least for now. Hours after President Trump told reporters he expects to sit down with Kim Jong-un later...
View ArticleSeoul Issues a Heat-Tied First Amid 'National Disaster'
South Korea's record-smashing heat wave is now bearing down on its capital. Seoul is poised to issue its first-ever "severe heat wave warning" as temperatures are forecast to hit more than 100 degrees...
View ArticleNorth Korea Loses a Soldier to the South
A North Korean soldier apparently risked death to flee the country this week, slipping across one of the world's most heavily guarded borders. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said troops...
View ArticleThis Buddhist Monk Is Not Like the Others
South Korea's newest Buddhist monk doesn't eat, sleep, or bow—but it does reboot. The Jogye Order, the country's largest Buddhist sect, has welcomed a four-foot-tall robot named Gabi as its first robot...
View ArticleAI Helps South Korea Keep an Eye on Its Seniors
It's another entry in the "AI for good" category: The New York Times' Choe Sang-Hun reports South Korea is aging more rapidly than any other country on Earth, leaving too few doctors and caregivers to...
View ArticleK-Pop Is Getting Too Big for South Korea's Stadiums
South Korea's live-music boom has hit an unexpected wall: there aren't enough places big enough for its own stars to play. As John Yoon reports in the New York Times , K-pop giants like BTS are...
View ArticleSouth Korea's Favorite Band Is Back in Business
After a four-year break, K-pop supergroup BTS returned on Saturday with a massive, free comeback concert in Seoul, where thousands of police locked down a central boulevard for the Netflix-exclusive...
View Article'World's Biggest Band' Readies a Spectacle
Those not plugged into K-Pop might care little about the initials BTS . But those who are plugged in care very much indeed—and they are prepped for a reunion of what the BBC succinctly describes as the...
View ArticleThe World Has a New Biggest City
The world has a new most populous city. According to a new United Nations report , Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo, which previously held the top spot but is shrinking due to Japan's aging population. The...
View ArticleSouth Korea Finally Relents on Tattoo Artists
South Korea is shedding its long-held taboo against tattoos. The country's National Assembly passed a bill Thursday that will legalize widespread tattooing, lifting decades-old restrictions that pushed...
View ArticleSubway Tunnel Collapse Traps 2 Workers
A South Korean subway tunnel under construction suddenly collapsed on Friday just south of Seoul, the AP reports. South Korea's national fire agency says one worker is missing and another is trapped in...
View Article14K Cops Will Descend on Seoul on Friday
More than a tenth of South Korea's entire police force will be mobilized in Seoul on Friday morning as the country's Constitutional Court prepares to decide Yoon Suk Yeol's fate. The court says it will...
View ArticleSeoul Sees Biggest November Snowfall in a Century
The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea's capital in more than a century came on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of flights, disrupting commuter traffic, and leaving at least two dead. South...
View ArticleK-Drama Star Song Jae-lim Found Dead
Song Jae-lim, a South Korean actor and former model, was found dead in Seoul on Tuesday. The 39-year-old's body was discovered in his apartment by a friend who planned to have lunch with him, CNN...
View ArticlePolitician Takes Heat for His Reasoning on Male Suicides
Men are taking their own lives in increasing numbers in South Korea, which has one of the highest suicide rates among the world's richest nations. One local politician thinks he's got the spike partly...
View ArticleCar Plows Into Crowd, Killing 9
Nine people were killed Monday evening when a car slammed into pedestrians waiting at a traffic light in South Korea's capital. At least four other people were hospitalized after the driver, a man in...
View Article1.5K Trash Balloons Have Descended on South Korea
Flights in and out of Incheon, South Korea, were paused for hours early Wednesday when balloons presumably sent by North Korea began descending on the city's airport. More than 1,500 balloons carrying...
View ArticleThere's a Move to Get Lonely Beluga Out of 'Unethical' Home
Efforts have kicked up again to "free Bella," a beluga whale housed in an aquarium in a South Korean shopping mall. Bella was caught in 2013 at the tender age of 2 in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of...
View ArticleFilmmaker Demands Probe Into Parasite Actor's Death
South Korea is still reeling from the death last month of popular Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun, whose body was found in a car in a Seoul park. Lee's family says he'd left behind what appeared to be a...
View ArticleParasite Star, 48, Found Dead in Car
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, who starred in 2019's Oscar-winning Parasite, was found dead in a car in a central Seoul park Wednesday morning. Police had been alerted earlier after Lee, 48, wrote a...
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