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AIA Life Korea hosted a K-pop concert in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Friday, drawing about 7,000 attendees from Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, according to the insurer. Held at KINTEX under the title “K-Pop Together, Give Together,” the event brought together customers, employees and business partners fr…
Automaker will try to grow market share in US, Japan
South Korea’s foreign and unification ministries have exchanged no official correspondence with other government agencies over their planned relocation to Sejong, according to ministry responses cited by a lawmaker Sunday. Rep. Kim Dai-sik of the People Power Party, a member of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affair…
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp.'s combined retail sal...
By Ronan Thomas LONDON — South Korea’s cultural and artistic exports have never been more popular in Britain. Unlike its short-lived 1990s UK cultural soft power contemporary, "Cool Britannia," the so-called Hallyu remains vibrant and enduring here. These days, K-pop, South Korean films, electronics, gaming, mobile …
Young Chinese people enjoy Japanese pop culture such as anime and music, but many draw a firm line at symbols of Japanese militarism. That line was tested recently at Moscow State University, where Chinese students confronted a classmate wearing Japan’s rising sun flag in class and called for his repatriation, state…
The number of foreign visitors arriving in South Korea by cruise ship neared 1.3 million in the first eight months of this year, driven largely by arrivals from China, data showed Sunday. A total of 1.28 million foreign passengers and crew members arrived aboard cruise ships in the January-August period, up 12 perce…
South Korea posted the second-largest current account surplus among major economies in the second quarter, surpassing the combined surpluses of Germany and Japan, central bank data showed Sunday. The country's current account surplus reached $116.63 billion in the April-June period, trailing only China's $193.72 bil…
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The number of foreign visitors arriving in South Kore...
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The number of temporary and daily workers in South Ko...
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea posted the second-largest current account...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- The upcoming U.S. midterm elections are unlikely...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un returned to his country by road on Sunday after visiting a historic Korean War memorial in the Chinese border city of Dandong, North Korean state media reported. Kim visited the city on Saturday and crossed a newly opened bridge that connects the country to its biggest trading partn…
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited China and...
Move follows Treasury's Thursday proposal to broaden security program
More than a million people flocked to Busan to catch a glimpse of the female dusky shark they called Bukangi.
With China’s economy slowing and youth unemployment rising, exhausted, disillusioned young people are seeking relief from the grinding pressures of modern life.
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday confirmed leader Kim Jong-un's ...
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the fourth part of this series, William Zheng looks at how the next generation of the party is being formed. When China’s political elites gather behind closed door…
Friedrich Merz to visit Tokyo as Japanese vehicles set to miss out on preferential status
The North Korean leader visits the border city of Dandong, crossing a newly opened bridge in a symbolic move seen as highlighting Beijing and Pyongyang's push to expand trade ties.
Premiums set to be 20% higher than regular industrial counterparts
The arrest of a Sydney barrister turned children's charity chairman on child abuse material charges prompts reflection across the charity sector in Cambodia about how they balance fundraising with child safety.
John Edwards reflects on a changing world, economic statecraft and an AI-led manufacturing revivalGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastJohn Edwards wants us to chill out about China.A former top economic adviser to Paul Keating in the early 1990s, Edwards has been a major figure in the private …
Eisenkot's campaign video claimed that the alternative system would generate "an economy like North Korea and Iran," and result in "the end of high-tech, the end of healthcare, the end of security."
The Pentagon has designated cultural programs linked to China’s Confucius Institute as a national security threat Read Full Article at RT.com
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FILIPINO tennis ace Alexandra “Alex” Eala will head to Japan for the WTA 500 Tokyo Open, the penultimate tournament of the 2026 season.
TAIPEI — Emergency crews scrambled on Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of homes in Taiwan after Typhoon Champi’s fierce winds battered the island, with the storm moving towards China and Japan.
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping and other top members of China’s ruling Communist Party will meet in Beijing on Monday for a crucial gathering that could hint at the country’s next generation of leaders.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited China in his first visit to the country in a year, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
CHEONAN, South Korea — With his sights on the season-long Race to Dubai title, South African golfer Casey Jarvis shot 4-under 67 in the second round of the Genesis Championship to share the lead with Antoine Rozner in the European tour event on Friday.
Fighter jets typically house their main radars behind a radome in the nose, while conventional airborne early-warning aircraft often carry large radar arrays in prominent structures above the fuselage. Although aircraft wings offer a large surface area, their relatively thin cross-sections leave limited internal spa…
A prominent Chinese economist’s social media channel has been restricted as Beijing steps up regulatory scrutiny of financial market influencers. Chinese internet users on Saturday noticed that the WeChat account of Ren Zeping, known for his outspoken comments on investments and policies, had been stopped from gaini…
TV estatal chinesa exibiu imagens do líder da Coreia do Norte caminhando por ponte fronteiriça recém-inaugurada. Pequim busca estreitar laços em meio a aproximação de Pyongyang com Moscou.
Protests across France were largely peaceful on Saturday, despite heightened tensions and sporadic clashes between protesters and the police, but authorities remained on high alert as night fell. The French Interior Ministry counted 410,000 people who hit the streets across the country on Saturday, down from the 550…
A marathon runner in China who dragged a nine-year-old boy around a half-marathon using a rope has been handed a three-year ban and had his result erased. Video clips of the child with a rope around his waist struggling to keep up as the pair competed in the Zhengzhou Marathon in Henan province have gone viral, and …
North Korean leader travels over New Yalu River Bridge to meet senior Communist party memberKim Jong-un has visited China, inaugurating a bridge that connects the two countries and saying he hopes to expand cooperation with his neighbour.The North Korean leader arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturd…
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited China on Satu...
Taiwan should not rely on a single foreign satellite provider for critical wartime communications, analysts have warned, after sudden restrictions on the use of Elon Musk’s Starlink disrupted Ukrainian drone operations. The episode has renewed debate in Taiwan over the risks of entrusting essential communications to…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday, with both sides underlining their traditional friendship and calling to boost cooperation. The trip, Kim’s first visit to China in more than a year, comes ahead of next month’s Apec summit in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen…
When Grant Newsham, a retired US Marine colonel and security analyst, sat down for an interview that aired last month, he called China’s economic rise illusory and said there were “600 million Chinese at least who live on US$5 a day or less”. His remarks quickly drew online criticism as well as accusations that he w…
Animal sacrifice has played a major role in human history, from mythological stories about Odysseus to modern rituals such as Nepal’s Gadhimai Festival. The tradition also dates back to ancient peoples we know little about. A research paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in late August suggests t…
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in China'...
Just weeks before Donald Trump’s second trip to China this year and his third meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom he has called a “truly great” friend, his administration is intensifying its crackdown on Confucius Institutes – Beijing-backed centres that promote Chinese language and culture at universities abroa…
Typhoon Champi continued to batter China’s eastern coast on Saturday, grounding over a hundred flights and prompting the authorities to relocate tens of thousands of people, while weakening as it moved towards Japan. Flights from airports in Shanghai as well as Fujian and Zhejiang provinces were grounded. China East…
