SEOUL: Lawsuits, scandals, armed troops and a knife-wielding attacker all failed to deter Lee Jae-myung’s ascendancy from sweatshop worker to the cusp of South Korea’s presidency.After losing by a razor-thin margin in 2022, the Democratic Party candidate has returned to the ballot, and is now poised to replace the political rival he was instrumental in […]
A smuggled mobile phone from North Korea has revealed new details about the country’s strict censorship system, which blocks nearly all access to foreign content, especially anything related to South Korea.According to a BBC report, North Korean smartphones automatically censor language and monitor user activity. Common South Korean words are altered or corrected, and the […]
The K-POP super girl group formerly known as (G)I-DLE has announced a rebranding, changing their name to i-dle and removing the “G” that represented “Girl.” Through this change, they aim to redefine their identity beyond gender or symbolic labels. Additionally, by eliminating the parentheses, typically used to emphasize or separate elements, they signal a move […]
South Korea’s finance minister Choi Sang-mok (Image: AP) SEOUL: South Korea’s finance minister Choi Sang-mok handed in his resignation on Thursday and it was accepted, his ministry said in a statement, as the country’s parliament was voting on his impeachment.“Choi’s resignation has been accepted,” said the finance ministry in a statement. Choi was set to […]
File photo: Ex-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (Picture credit: AP) South Korean prosecutors have indicted country’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol for abuse of power, adding to the growing list of charges against the ousted leader, who is already on trial over an alleged attempt to stage an insurrection through the imposition of martial […]
For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had captured. Then, in back-to-back statements, the leaders of the two countries confirmed that North Korean troops have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with […]
South Korean former President Moon Jae-in (Image: AP) SEOUL: Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday called his indictment on bribery charges “unjust”, accusing prosecutors of abusing their power in what he called a politically motivated investigation. Moon’s comments came a day after prosecutors in the southern city of Jeonju announced his indictment over […]
SEOUL: The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program, a decision stemming from internal disputes among commissioners regarding which cases warranted recognition as problematic. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed human rights violations in just 56 of the 367 […]
SEOUL: Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, died on Wednesday. He was 82. Kim died of old age after two months of stay at a nursing home and his official funeral […]
