South Korea is in need of fruit and vegetable farmers, and the Philippines could be a potential source. This was shared by Pampanga 4th district Rep. Anna York Bondoc in a recent video she uploaded on Facebook. Bondoc, a vice chairperson of the House Committee on Poverty Alleviation, was part of a...
TUTOK TO WIN Party-list Rep. Sam Verzosa recently shared on Facebook photos of him and fellow House of Representatives members during a trip to South Korea. Heading the Philippine delegation was Senior Deputy Speaker and former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Based on his uploads about the trip,...
Netflix’s “The Glory,” the revenge drama starring Song Hye-kyo, emerged as the No. 1 favorite TV and video streaming program in South Korea in March. Since January 2013, polling firm Gallup Korea has been conducting its monthly survey to pick the favorite TV programs in South Korea. ...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea claimed Friday it had tested an underwater nuclear attack drone able to unleash a "radioactive tsunami", as it blamed recent US-South Korea exercises for a deteriorating regional security situation. Pyongyang carried out drills in response this week, the official...
South Korea is now joining the Philippines in the clean up of the oil spill that has spread across different provinces from Oriental Mindoro. According to the South Korean Embassy in Manila, members of the Korean Coast Guard will be sent to the country to assist its Filipino counterpart. They will...
SEOUL, South Korea -- More than 800,000 young North Koreans have volunteered to join the army to fight "US imperialists", state media said Saturday, days after Pyongyang test-fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP on Saturday, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang. At a fence-mending summit on Thursday,...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his daughter, personally oversaw the recent test-firing of the country's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media images showed Friday. The launch on Thursday -- Pyongyang's second ICBM test this year --...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea said Wednesday it would build the world's largest chip centre using $230 billion of private investment mostly from Samsung Electronics, as it seeks an edge in the global industry. The plan is part of the South Korean government's drive to invest heavily in six key...
The Philippines has condemned the recent international ballistic missile test as well as other similar tests conducted by North Korea as such tests provoke tension across the world. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) issued the statement after North Korea fired on February 18 a...
An employee of Korea’s high-speed train has illegally accessed the personal information of K-pop boy band BTS member RM. An exclusive report by Korean news program “SBS Eight O'Clock News” on March 1 stated that a female employee of the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) was able to access...
Have a sip of South Korea’s love of iced Americano By Cat Barton Images Jung Yeon-je COFFEE OVER ICE Independent coffee shop owner Kim Bum-soo says around half his coffee sales are iced Americanos all year round K-pop stars BTS drink it. It appears in K-dramas. Fans are so dedicated to consuming...
