Seoul court sentences US YouTuber Johnny Somali to 6 months in jail over offensive stunts. American YouTuber Johnny Somali has been sentenced to six months in prison for his 2024 act of public nuisance when he filmed himself kissing a statue commemorating Korean wartime sex slaves. South Korean authorities indicted Somali, whose real name is […]
A 90-year-old woman in South Korea has drawn national and international attention after being arrested and later sentenced for laundering money linked to her son’s drug trafficking activities. According to court proceedings in Incheon, the elderly woman handled hundreds of millions of won over multiple transactions, transferring funds at her son’s direction while he was […]
North Korea on Monday described South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s expression of regret over cross-border drone incursions as “very fortunate and wise”, in a rare conciliatory response from Pyongyang after years of sharply hostile rhetoric.Lee earlier on Monday apologised for at least two incidents in which drones crossed into North Korea, saying they had […]
When Malaysia set out to build the Petronas Twin Towers in the 1990s, it adopted an unusual strategy that would later become the stuff of engineering legend. Instead of assigning the project to a single contractor, the government split the work between two rival international consortia, one led by Japan and the other by South […]
Black smoke rises from an auto parts plant in Daejeon, South Korea SEOUL: A fire at a South Korea car parts plant killed 10 people, the Yonhap news agency reported early Saturday citing authorities, with rescuers still searching for four missing.Another 59 people suffered injuries ranging from slight to serious, authorities were cited as saying, […]
Turkey is in talks with South Korea, Canada, China and Russia to develop new nuclear power capacity, energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday, as Ankara pushes to expand its energy mix.Speaking to NTV, Bayraktar said Turkey plans to build four nuclear reactors in the northern province of Sinop and another four in the Thrace […]
North Korea has expressed support for the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of Iran, while condemning what it described as the “illegal” military attack by the United States and Israel that killed Iran’s previous leader. A spokesperson for North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Pyongyang respected Tehran’s decision to […]
Sachin Awasthi, an Indian content creator says he was detained by immigration authorities in both South Korea and China while traveling with his wife.Posting on Instagram, Awasthi described being detained for 38 hours on Jeju Island in South Korea. He said the couple was denied entry and taken to a holding area without any clear […]
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol (file pic) Former South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of “insurrection”, and has been sentenced to life in prison by the Seoul central district court. The verdict is linked to his martial law declaration in December 2024 , which the court called a deliberate […]
File photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre left) with his daughter (Picture credit: AP) South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has assessed that the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is effectively being positioned as his successor, marking a potential extension of the Kim family dynasty into a fourth generation, […]
