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South Korea’s military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance assets across the heavily fortified border with North Korea on December 26, 2022. The move came after North Korean drones violated South Korean airspace for the first time in five years, officials said.
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The US flew B-52 strategic bombers and F-22 fighter jets on December 20, 2022, for joint drills with South Korea. The F-22 Raptor fifth-generation stealth fighters, based in Japan’s Okinawa, were deployed for the first time since May 2018 for joint exercises in South Korea.
A once lively and thriving party spot during the festive season, Itaewon, has turned into a sombre district in the South Korean capital Seoul after a deadly Halloween crowd crush killed 158 people and injured 196 others. Despite the efforts of some venues to heighten Christmas cheer in Seoul’s party district with fe…
South Korea’s first openly LGBTQ boy band Lionesses says it has been banned from airing a new song and related music video on the nation’s biggest broadcaster over “homosexuality” concerns. Members of the group said on December 19, 2022, that public broadcaster MBC told them the decision to ban the song was made bec…
North Korea confirmed that it has built a spy satellite undergoing its “final-stage” test, conducted at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground on December 18, 2022. State media KCNA released two pictures of South Korean cities, including its capital, captured by the satellite during the test. Pyongyang aims to complet…
North Koreans commemorated Kim Jong-il’s 11th death anniversary in the capital Pyongyang. The former leader and father of current leader Kim Jong-un, died of medical conditions aggravated by a heart attack on December 17, 2011. Residents and soldiers brought flowers and gathered at the statues of Kim Jong-il and his…
K-pop group BTS member Jin began his mandatory South Korean military service on December 13, 2022. The band’s other members will soon follow in his footsteps, leaving fans heartbroken and uncertain about the group’s future. Widely considered South Korea’s biggest-ever global phenomenon, BTS sparked debate on whether…
A pair of white Pungsan dogs given to then-South Korean president Moon Jae-in by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in 2018 were sent to a zoo in Gwangju, South Korea. Moon gave up the dogs in November, citing a lack of financial support from the current government led by President Yoon Suk-yeol.
Located at South Korea’s westernmost tip, Baekryeong Island is far closer to North Korea than the South. To deter invasion, tanks line the roads, guards are mounted on every hill and concrete pyramid-shaped fortifications cover the beaches. The nearly 5,000 residents who live here have learned to live under constant…
Protesters have been staging daily noisy demonstrations outside former South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s home in Pyeongsan, the village he moved to in May after leaving office. On November 15, 2022, demonstrators armed with megaphones recounted their disappointment with their former leader, including his engageme…
Japanese and South Korean football fans were left devastated yet proud as their teams crashed out of the Fifa World Cup on December 5, 2022. Croatia beat Japan 3-1 in a penalty shoot-out, while five-time champions Brazil overwhelmed South Korea 4-1, bringing an end to Asian hopes at the tournament.
North Korea held its 52nd Sports Contest of Artistes at Pyongyang Gymnasium on November 29, 2022. Spectators watched taekwondo demonstrations, a cheerleading performance and various sports competitions, including ssireum, also known as Korean wrestling.
Negotiations at a November 30, 2022, meeting between South Korean Transport Ministry officials and representatives of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union (CTSU) have failed to yield a deal. Striking truckers defied a November 29 government “start-work” order, with many shaving their heads at union-organised rallies …
It has been a month since the deadly crowd crush at Itaewon in the South Korean capital of Seoul that claimed 158 lives on October 29, 2022. Authorities have come under heavy criticism for their response that night, after it emerged that emergency calls were made warning police about the dangerous crowd build-up bef…
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on November 28, 2022, called on Beijing to dissuade Pyongyang from developing nuclear weapons and missiles, adding that China is capable of influencing the North. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said earlier that Pyongyang intends to have the world's most powerful nuclear force. …
Beijing is willing to work with Pyongyang on “regional and global peace and stability”, according to a letter China’s president has sent to North Korea’s leader. The message was reportedly dated November 22, 2022, days after an international appeal for Xi Jinping’s help to stop the reclusive state from nuclear and m…
Thousands of unionised truckers in South Korea kicked off their second major strike seeking better pay and working conditions in less than six months on November 24, 2022. The action is already disrupting supply chains across the world's 10th-largest economy, affecting carmakers, the cement industry and steel produc…
With one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, South Korea’s population is expected to shrink to 38 million in 2070, the country’s official statistics agency revealed in September 2022. The latest figure for 2022 showed that there were only 0.81 births per woman in South Korea, as young couples choose not to have k…
The safety and regulation of Tesla in South Korea has been put in the spotlight at a criminal trial involving a deadly crash on December 19, 2020. Choi Woan-jong was behind the wheel of the Model X that smashed into a parking lot, killing the car owner, Yoon Hong-geun. Prosecutors say Choi floored the accelerator, w…
Photos of the North Korean supreme leader’s daughter were revealed to the world for the first time on November 19, 2022. A day after North Korea test-fired a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on November 18, photos showing Kim Jong-Un with his daughter hand in hand inspecting the country’s largest…
Seoul's Education Ministry said 508,030 students sat the annual nine-hour Suneung college entrance exam in 2022, the results of which are crucial for securing spots at top universities. The enormous pressure on students in South Korea's ultra-competitive education system has been blamed for teenage depression and su…
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More South Koreans are learning CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) after the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul, paramedics and trainees said on November 10, 2022.
South Korea said on November 9, 2022, that the salvaged debris of a North Korean missile was part of a Soviet-era SA-5 surface-to-air missile. The missile, which was among more than 20 missiles the North fired on November 2, landed near South Korean waters for the first time, triggering air-raid sirens on Ulleung is…
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South Korea’s former President Moon Jae-in said on November 7, 2022, he plans to give up a pair of dogs sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a gift following their 2018 summit, citing a lack of support from his successor, President Yoon Suk-yeol.
The US Air Force deployed two B-1B strategic bombers during joint air drills with South Korea on November 5, 2022. The bombers made an appearance after North Korea conducted a barrage of weapons tests in recent days to protest the allied military drills, which it called an “open provocation” and a “dangerous war dri…
South Korean investigators have raided police offices across Seoul as part of a probe into the emergency response before and during the deadly Halloween crowd crush on October 29, 2022. A woman who reportedly made the first emergency call, nearly four hours before the tragedy struck in the capital’s Itaewon entertai…
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North Korea launched three more missiles on November 3, 2022, triggering warning alarms across central and northern Japan. The alerts issued in the prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata brought trains to a halt as evacuation warnings were issued on phones and over loudspeakers. Pyongyang’s latest tests happene…
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"I'm going out", were the last words from 30-year-old Jung Joo-hee to her father before setting off for South Korea’s Itaewon district on October 29, 2022. She was among the 156 people who died in the Itaewon disaster. Remembered by her family as a delight who loved animals, Joo-hee was laid to rest in the city of N…
South Korea’s military fired three air-to-ground missiles that were directed north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) on November 2, 2022, in response to the North’s missile launches. One of Pyongyang’s missiles landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast,
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A North Korean missile landed south of the Northern Limit Line into South Korean waters for the first time on November 2, 2022, triggering air-raid sirens in the South Korean island of Ulleung. The launch was one of at least 17 missiles Pyongyang fired that day. South Korea’s president slammed the North’s launch as …
Rising K-pop singer and actor Lee Ji-han has been confirmed to be among at least 155 people killed in a crowd stampede in Seoul on October 29, 2022. Two days since the tragedy in the South Korean capital’s Itaewon nightlife district, the nation continues to grieve for those who died in the crush during a Halloween s…
Revellers who survived a deadly Halloween stampede in Seoul on October 29, 2022, described the moments leading up to the crush that killed at least 153 people. The tragedy unfolded after about 100,000 people surged into a narrow alley in Itaewon, a popular nightlife spot in the South Korean capital.
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At least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on October 29, 2022. Warning, graphic content follows.
North Korea completed the construction of a new ice cream factory in the capital Pyongyang on October 27, 2022. The newly built Taesongsan Ice Cream Factory was personally ordered by the country’s leader Kim Jong-un to ‘improve people’s well-being’ amid a faltering economy and global sanctions.
South Korea has held anti-terror and amphibious landing drills as part of its annual national security training, amid the threat of an impending nuclear test by Pyongyang. In the northern city of Goyang, soldiers rappelled down buildings, smashed windows and rammed doors during exercises held on October 27, 2022.
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on October 25, 2022, that Washington is prepared to use nuclear deterrence to protect its allies, South Korea and Japan. This came after Seoul and Tokyo warned that the North was preparing for a seventh nuclear bomb test in the near future. Pyongyang has been carrying …
There have been fresh tensions on the Korean peninsula after Seoul and Pyongyang exchanged warning shots near the sea border on October 24, 2022. The South Korean military said it fired warning shots at a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL). Meanwhile Pyongyang said it fired 10 ar…
A Korean Air plane overshot the runway at Mactan-Cebu International Airport in the Philippines on October 23, 2022. All 173 passengers and crew members on board were safely evacuated, authorities said. The plane from Incheon had previously attempted to land twice before the accident happened.
Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran on October 19, 2022, after the Asian Championships in Seoul where she competed without a headscarf. Iran requires its women athletes to wear the hijab while competing abroad. While her supporters speculated this was an act of defiance against the Iranian government, Re…
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