SEOUL, April 10 (Yonhap) -- Culture Minister nominee Park Bo-gyoon is a veteran journalist who worked for a local daily newspaper for more than four decades.
The 68-year-old started his journali...
16:00 Apr. 10
SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- BTS has received seven nominations at the upcoming 2022 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), its agency said Saturday.
The seven-member act earned the nods in six categories ...
13:32 Apr. 09
SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) -- The presence of Korean literature is growing widely in the world as local translations have won or been nominated for multiple prizes from literature awards outside of th...
10:43 Apr. 08
(ATTN: UPDATES with quotes from Chung in paras 7-8)
SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean novelist Chung Bora has made it to the shortlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, one of the thre...
21:42 Apr. 07
(ATTN: UPDATES with more details and background information in paras 2, 6-10)
SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean novelist Chung Bora has made it to the shortlist for the 2022 International Boo...
21:13 Apr. 07
SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean novelist Chung Bora has made it to the shortlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, one of the three largest literary awards in the world.
The autho...
19:52 Apr. 07
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday.
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(3rd LD) Yoon vows to strengthen deterrence against N. Korea's nuclear, missile t...
17:00 Apr. 07
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday.
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(2nd LD) Seoul to help restore int'l flights to 50 pct by year's end
SEOUL --...
17:00 Apr. 06
SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) -- Wendy of South Korean girl group Red Velvet has tested positive for the coronavirus, her management agency said Saturday.
"Wendy has completed her third COVID-19 vacci...
19:12 Apr. 02
TOKYO, April 2 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition featuring art works on victims of the Japanese military sexual slavery kicked off in Tokyo on Saturday despite protests from Japanese right-wing activists.
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16:26 Apr. 02
SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Key news agencies of South Korea and Vietnam opened a joint photo exhibition in Seoul on Thursday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two ...
17:58 Mar. 31
SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large-scale lantern parade will resume next month in full scale as part of the UNESCO-listed Lantern Lighting Fes...
15:37 Mar. 31
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition illustrating the cultural and historical relationship between sports and art will be held in Seoul later this week for a four-month run, its organizer said...
15:24 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) -- Three nonfungible token (NFT) editions of a landmark abstract artwork by Korean modern art master Kim Whan-ki (1913-1974) have sold for around a combined 730 million won...
15:01 Mar. 26
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, March 25 (Yonhap) -- The boom of the local art market is expected to continue this year thanks to swelling demand for artworks from individual investors amid the protracted pand...
10:39 Mar. 25
SEOUL, March 24 (Yonhap) -- Key news agencies of South Korea and Vietnam will hold a joint photo exhibition in Seoul next week to commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two...
12:00 Mar. 24
SEOUL, March 24 (Yonhap) -- The Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF), a leading annual classical music gala in South Korea, will begin this year's edition Friday as it marks its 20th anniv...
09:50 Mar. 24
SEOUL, March 24 (Yonhap) -- Nearly 7 in 10 foreign buyers think that South Korea's national brand is having a positive impact on their purchases of products from Asia's fourth-largest economy, a pol...
08:32 Mar. 24
SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) -- Sales of books written by Suzy Lee, who became the first South Korean to win the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Awards (HCAA), shot up more than 150 times after her...
16:57 Mar. 23
SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) -- The Seoul city government on Wednesday signed an agreement with Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, to help South Korean designers expand to the Europ...
11:15 Mar. 23