SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition highlighting South Korea's close relationship with the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will take place online next mo...
15:40 Jan. 25
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- Back in February 2003 at the inaugural ceremony of then President Roh Moo-hyun, a soft and lyrical voice followed a prelude of the national anthem of South K...
09:00 Jan. 22
By Kim Han-joo
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korean online gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. said Thursday that it will launch its K-pop fan platform globally next week.
The platform, named Universe,...
11:28 Jan. 21
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday.
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(2nd LD) Moon names Chung Eui-yong as foreign minister, picks new culture, SMEs...
17:16 Jan. 20
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- The musical theater industry has called for eased social distancing rules at performance venues, citing the difficulty in continuing shows under the government's current ...
14:03 Jan. 20
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Hwang Hee, nominated Wednesday as the new culture minister, is a two-term lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party who has built an extensive career in liberal political c...
11:56 Jan. 20
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- The leader of the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, said Tuesday that he will strive to promote inter-Korean religious exchanges this year by helping the ...
16:12 Jan. 19
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- A group of major state-run cultural facilities in Seoul will reopen later this week, the culture ministry said Monday, amid signs of the third wave of the coronavirus slo...
15:08 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Bong Joon-ho, writer-director of Oscar-winning South Korean film "Parasite," will preside over the main jury of this year's Venice International Film Festival, according ...
20:45 Jan. 15
Jan. 16
1948 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" is performed in South Korea for the first time.
1951 -- China rejects a United Nations proposal for a cease-fire in the Korean War.
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14:00 Jan. 15
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- The popularity of "hallyu," or the Korean Wave, seems to have continued unabated across the world despite yearlong coronavirus restrictions, as the number of global hally...
11:07 Jan. 15
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's content industry saw its domestic sales fall in the first half of 2020, mostly due to the new coronavirus, which sapped demand in the film and advertising s...
17:00 Jan. 14
By Lee Minji
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- Following a heated scandal over Luda, a chatbot that ended up being unplugged amid controversies over its hypersexualization and unfiltered comments on sexua...
16:18 Jan. 14
GYEONGJU, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- An academic book on Park Dae-sung, a renowned artist who has contributed to the globalization of Korean traditional art, will be published in the United S...
11:40 Jan. 13
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition highlighting foreign critics and historians who have explored and documented Korean art is under way at a museum in central Seoul.
"Homebound Journey: No...
10:00 Jan. 10
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) -- The BTS album "Map of the Soul: 7," featuring hit tracks "On" and "Boy with Luv," has been tallied as the bestselling physical album in the United States last year.
Phy...
14:48 Jan. 08
By Lee Minji
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) -- January is usually a bleak month after year-end festivities and the hype for ambitious New Year's resolutions have faded. But in the K-pop industry, January i...
14:11 Jan. 08
The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday.
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(LEAD) S. Korean court orders Tokyo to pay damages to wartime sex slavery victims in...
13:27 Jan. 08
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) -- Rookie girl group aespa's song "Black Mamba" has earned 100 million views on YouTube, becoming the fastest debut music video by a K-pop act to reach the milestone, the gro...
10:10 Jan. 08
By Lee Minji
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Seven-member superband BTS, which released megahits "Dynamite" and "ON" in 2020, was the most streamed Korean artist and global group last year, global stream...
11:46 Jan. 07