SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea closed its airspace to ensure silence and offered police escorts for tardy test takers Thursday as more than half a million students sat high-stakes college admission exams. Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall in...
K-pop group Girls’ Generation member Taeyeon tested positive for Covid-19 as South Korea’s new daily cases surged to more than 70,000. On Nov. 14, SM Entertainment announced Taeyeon’s condition. Girls' Generation's Taeyeon (Instagram) “Taeyeon was diagnosed with COVID-19 today (Nov. 14),”...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- US President Joe Biden said Sunday he will seek to establish "red lines" in America's fraught relations with Beijing when he holds high-stakes talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Biden said he goes into Monday's encounter on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia...
The Philippines and South Korea have agreed to further strengthen supply chain cooperation, according to Trade and Industry Undersecretary and Board of Investments (BOI) Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo. The two parties affirmed to prioritize supply chain and energy cooperation to further expand...
Everything we’ve learned from the South Korean celebrity on his first visit to the Philippines WOOKIE FEVER The press con at the Peninsula Manila with host Sam Oh, Ji Chang Wook, and his interpreter In If You Wish Upon Me , he taught us that it would never be too late to heal. In The Sound of...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's former president Moon Jae-in is seeking to give up two dogs gifted to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing a lack of support from Seoul, his office said Monday. Photo from Moon Jae-Ian's Cheong Wa Dae official Twitter account The white Pungsan dogs, one...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The North Korean military said its response to US-South Korean war drills would be "resolute and overwhelming", state media reported Monday. The warning came after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired four ballistic missiles on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in Pyongyang's testing blitz this week as Washington and Seoul concluded their biggest-ever air force drills. In this file photo taken on November 3, 2022, people watch a...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Candlelight vigils and rallies were expected in South Korea on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush, with public anger growing over one of the country's deadliest peacetime disasters. People take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's military scrambled stealth jets on Friday after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes, Seoul said as it conducted large-scale joint air drills with the United States which have infuriated Pyongyang. US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during a new salvo of launches Thursday, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang. Television screens show a news report about the latest North...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's prime minister said Wednesday that police must explain failures to respond to multiple emergency calls ahead of a deadly Halloween crowd surge, as investigators raided police stations. Police stand guard at the cordoned scene of the deadly Halloween crowd surge...
