Seoul: Kim Jong, a powerful sister of the United Nations, slammed American -led efforts to snatch nuclear weapons of North Korea, stating that the idea of disliked the country was a “diwaswapna”. His comment comes after the top diplomats of South Korea, Japan and the United States, issued a statement on the occasion of a … Read more
Seoul: South Korea will hold the presidential election on June 3, the acting President of the country said on Tuesday that former Seoul leader Yun Suk Yeol was removed from the post on the disastrous announcement of the martial law. South Korea has been effectively leaderless since December, when former President Yun tried to abolish … Read more
The Constitutional Court retained the impeachment of this. Seoul, South Korea: South Korean President Yun Suk Yeol on Friday apologized after the country’s constitutional court on Friday, after retaining his impeachment on a bottled martial law announcement, immediately snatched it from the post. The court said in a statement issued after the court announced its … Read more
Seoul, South Korea: South Korea’s Yun Suk Yeol reached the presidency from Star Prosecutor in a few years, but after a martial law decree last year, he became the second President of the country on Friday, who was booted from the office. On December 3, on the dark days of South Korea’s military rule, the … Read more
New Delhi: A South Korean couple traveling in India was left speechless when local auto-rickshaw drivers at a bus stand in Rajasthan greeted them in fluent Korean. The couple, who are travel vloggers, had just stepped off a bus in Jaisalmer and were marvelling at the sight of numerous tuk-tuks (battery-operated autos) lined up at … Read more
South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his relatives’ gravesites, an investigator said Sunday. More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and burning more than 48,000 hectares (118,610 acres) of … Read more
Andong: Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea’s worst wildfires. Kim built her house in Chumok-ri village herself when she first moved there from the city but, like most houses in the area, it was … Read more
Andong: Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze, officials said Thursday, as the deaths hit 27. More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast and forcing around 37,000 people to … Read more
South Korea’s government enabled the “mass exportation” of children with private adoption agencies by fabricating birth records and failing to follow consent procedures, a long-awaited investigation has found. According to CNN, the country, which remains one of the biggest exporters of babies in the world, has sent over 200,000 South Korean children overseas since the … Read more
Seoul: Growing up in North Korea, Hyuk’s childhood was about survival. He never listened to banned K-pop music but, after defecting to the South, he’s about to debut as an idol. Hyuk is one of two young North Koreans in a new K-pop band called 1Verse — the first time that performers originally from the … Read more
Uiseong: At least 18 people have been killed in one of South Korea’s worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple blazes burning and causing “unprecedented damage”, the acting president said Wednesday. More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend, with the death count jumping overnight as one major fire tore through villages and burned … Read more
A motorcyclist who fell into a massive sinkhole that opened on a Seoul street was discovered dead following an extensive overnight search, Seoul officials announced on Tuesday. According to the BBC, the unidentified man, in his 30s, was found in cardiac arrest around noon on Tuesday, after the sinkhole swallowed him as he drove by. … Read more