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South Korea’s high school students log about six hours of screentime a day on average, while devoting just over an hour to outdoor activities, revealing a significant imbalance in daily physical activity, according to a state research report.
Seoul will be marking BTS’ comeback and new album “Arirang” with a monthlong citywide celebration, featuring large-scale public events and fan programs across major landmarks in the capital.
Blackpink has been streamed more than 3.6 billion times on Melon, the largest music platform in Korea said Monday, citing its own tally.
HOLLYWOOD — Netflix's smash hit "KPop Demon Hunters" — a tale of good and evil incorporating traditional Korean mythology and set to a thumping soundtrack — on Sunday won the Oscar for best animated feature.
Seoul’s subway system will begin accepting overseas-issued payment cards for transportation card purchases and recharging starting Tuesday, a move aimed at easing a long-standing inconvenience for foreign visitors using the city’s public transit.
Illit will drop its fourth EP “Mamihlapinatapai” on April 30, the group announced at the end of the concert it held in Seoul on Sunday.
Jimmy Kimmel was ostensibly at the 2026 Oscars to present the awards for Best Documentary Short and Best Documentary Feature, but of course, he took his platform to dig into politics. After lobbing a shot comparing CBS to North Korea, he then dug the knife deeper by slamming First Lady Melania Trump‘s recent critica…
HOLLYWOOD — Netflix's smash hit "KPop Demon Hunters" -- a tale of good and evil incorporating traditional Korean mythology and set to a thumping soundtrack -- on Sunday won the Oscar for best animated feature.
South Korean stocks started higher Monday on strong gains in tech shares despite a jump in global crude prices sparked by US air strikes on Iran's main export hub.
In a sudden move, US President Donald Trump targeted South Korea, declaring that tariffs on Korean goods would be reverted to pre-trade deal levels.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has cast his ballot at a coal mine constituency in elections to pick deputies for a new term of the Supreme People's Assembly, with voter turnout recorded at 99.99 percent, state media reported Monday.
MESA, Ariz. — Hyeseong Kim called his time at the World Baseball Classic with Team South Korea a “great experience.”
"This is for Korea, and Koreans everywhere," Kang says on accepting the prize
The number of wildfires in South Korea rose in February, raising alarms among authorities and experts. According to the National Fire Data System, 134 wildfires were recorded by February, a roughly 30 percent increase from the 103 incidents reported during the same period last year.
In April 2024, when the won’s exchange rate broke through the 1,400 mark against the dollar, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea at the time warned that a serious crisis was becoming reality and called an emergency meeting to press the government to respond. The message was unmistakable. A weakening currency…
Rising tensions in the Middle East have once again shaken global oil markets, raising concerns about potential disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy transit routes. For Korea, which imports nearly all its energy, such uncertainty poses a serious economic risk.
For some 46 years, until 2025, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, self-destructive, nihilistic and inevitably, one day, nuclear.
Democrat says Congress ‘doing nothing’ may embolden president to attack countries such as Cuba and North Korea
Kim Yun-ji, a 19-year-old para cross-country skier, claimed her fifth medal at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics on Sunday, setting a record for the most medals won by a South Korean athlete at a single Olympic or Paralympic Games.
While previous ‘hallyu’-driven tourist waves focused on K-pop culture, KPop Demon Hunters fans are embracing Korean culture on another level
A South Korean military transport aircraft carrying more than 200 evacuees from the Middle East landed at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday evening, completing a government operation to bring home Korean nationals who had been stranded, amid escalating regional conflict.
South Korea is considering sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump called on it and other countries to take part in its defence.
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The Bank of Korea said a supplementary budget being discussed to cushion the economic fallout from the war in the Middle East is unlikely to significantly fan inflation, even as oil-driven cost pressures build.
Civic groups in South Korea urged the government Sunday to reject any US request to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, warning that involvement in rising tensions with Iran could expose the country to security risks and legal challenges.
A logistics center employee in South Korea received a suspended prison sentence for stealing parcels containing high-end electronics worth about 120 million won ($80,000) while working at a distribution facility, a court said Sunday.
Authorities in Seoul are preparing extensive security and traffic measures ahead of the BTS comeback concert set for March 21 at Gwanghwamun Square. Here’s what visitors should know.
Report calls for equal rights for foreign caregivers, multicultural training for employers and service users
Tourists walked around the main palace Gyeongbokgung to watch the changing of the royal guards ceremony at the Woldae platform in Seoul.
LG Electronics CEO Lyu Jae-cheol visited Chinese humanoid robot maker AgiBot during a three-day trip to Shanghai earlier this week, signaling the Korean electronics giant's deepening commitment to robotics and AI as pillars of its future business.
South Korea's three major mobile carriers are racing to fortify their networks ahead of what is shaping up to be one of the country's largest live events in recent memory: the long-awaited BTS comeback concert in the heart of Seoul.
The main opposition People Power Party on Sunday extended its deadline yet again for candidate registration for June's Seoul mayoral race, in an apparent bid to woo incumbent conservative Mayor Oh Se-hoon.
Holders meet Australia at 60,000-capacity Perth Stadium in Tuesday’s semi-final, while Japan will face South Korea in Sydney on Wednesday
Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts i…
Verbal intervention back in focus after overnight slide jolts markets
More than half of workers in South Korea said they have experienced or witnessed abusive practices by principal contractors, a recent survey showed.
From an Oscar frontrunner steeped in Korean culture to a cult-classic remake on Hollywood's biggest stage, this year's ceremony has plenty on offer for fans of Korean content
Education support systems for students with international backgrounds are failing to keep pace with their rapidly growing numbers, raising concerns about whether Korean schools are equipped to help them adapt to the national curriculum.
South Korean burger chain Mom’s Touch is once again up for sale, industry officials said Sunday, roughly four years after its private equity owner shelved an earlier attempt to sell the company.
South Korea has held early talks with Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI model, as Seoul looks to broaden its engagement with major global artificial intelligence companies beyond OpenAI, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.
With hotel packages, retail pop-ups, landmark light shows, fan zones -- capital embraces BTS’ return
For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings …
While the South Korean government aims to end overseas adoption by 2029, a survey by a state research institute suggests the goal may remain difficult unless the country moves beyond its strong attachment to bloodline-based family concepts.
South Korea is evacuating more than 200 of its nationals from parts of the Middle East amid escalating regional tensions, with a military transport aircraft carrying the group currently en route to Korea, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
South Korea’s top universities slipped in the Nature Index, a global ranking that tracks research published in leading science journals, as Chinese institutions tightened their grip on the list.
North Korea fired more than 10 ballistic missiles toward the waters off its eastern coast, days after testing cruise missiles from a new warship and adding to global geopolitical risks that were already mounting after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
A Japanese tourist remained unconscious Sunday after a Saturday evening fire at a capsule hotel in central Seoul injured several foreign nationals.
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center right, and his daughter, center left, attend a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, March 14, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depi…
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted a test of its "state of the art", nuclear-capable multiple rocket launcher system (MRLS), state media reported Sunday, a day after Seoul identified the launch of around 10 ballistic missiles.
North Korea conducted a firepower strike drill involving 600-millimeter ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers, attended by leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported Sunday.