Aid supplies from South Korea arrived in Manila on Wednesday for the ongoing efforts to clean up the tanker oil spill that started from the waters off Mindoro Oriental. According to the Korean Embassy in the Philippines, about 20 tons of sorbent pads and snares, 1,000 meters of solid flotation...
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,...
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 -- 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 - 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...
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...
A woman walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on February 18, 2023. Anthony WALLACE / AFP SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile Saturday, South Korea's military...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said Friday it would begin issuing short-term visas to travellers from China again, ending a Covid-linked restriction that sparked a furious response and tit-for-tat measures from Beijing. In January, Seoul imposed travel requirements, including visa restrictions...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said Thursday it had staged joint air drills with the United States featuring strategic bombers and stealth fighters, prompting Pyongyang to warn that such exercises could "ignite an all-out showdown". The exercises, the first by the security allies this year, came...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean police on Friday blamed negligence and planning failures for last year's Halloween crowd crush in Seoul that killed more than 150 people. Scores of young costumed partygoers, mostly women in their 20s, died in the disaster on October 29 in the capital's popular...
