SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin held a series of meetings with his counterparts from the Netherlands and others for discussions on bolstering cooperation as he at...
11:49 Sep. 24
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean companies have asked the United States to clarify from which foreign companies they are not required to import critical electric vehicle (EV) battery minera...
11:46 Sep. 24
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By Kang Yoon-seung
SEJONG, Sept. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to invest around 2.2 trillion won (US$1.65 billion) through 2028 to establish ...
09:12 Sep. 18
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- Suga, a member of the K-pop sensation BTS, will begin his mandatory military service this week, his agency announced Sunday.
BigHit Music said Suga, 30, will fulfill ...
14:28 Sep. 17
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By Lee Haye-ah
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol nominated ...
16:40 Sep. 13
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Yonhap) -- The government has received no requests from Tokyo to expand imports of Japanese seafood and plans to maintain the import ban as is, officials said Wednesday, denying a ...
15:54 Sep. 13
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has received two awards at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), one of the biggest annual music awards in the United States.
The ...
15:17 Sep. 13
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SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday it will closely cooperate with Morocco and the international community to provide ne...
19:14 Sep. 10
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- Jungkook, a member of K-pop juggernaut BTS, will headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival, a large-scale U.S. charity concert set to be held this month, the group's agency s...
09:04 Sep. 07
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By Chae Yun-hwan
KIELCE, Poland, Sept. 6 (Yonhap-Joint Press Corps) -- Major South Korean defense companies have showed off tanks, guided weapons and other key weapons systems at...
11:46 Sep. 06
By Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry said Monday it plans to lift visa processing fees for Chinese tourists through the end of this year and increase the num...
08:15 Sep. 04
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has secured six nominations at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, alongside other K-pop bands that have also received nominations, acco...
14:18 Sep. 02
DAEJEON, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- The total number of passengers on KTX high-speed trains is set to exceed 1 billion this week after 19 years and five months of operation, KTX operator the Korea Railroa...
15:46 Aug. 30
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- The radiation levels in the waters near South Korea remain well below the standards for drinkable water defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), Seoul's oceans min...
21:44 Aug. 27
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Yonhap) -- The education ministry unveiled a plan Wednesday to introduce a new collective school grievance response system, seeking to protect teachers from abusive complaints by pa...
16:02 Aug. 23
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- K-pop supergroup BTS' music video for its 2019 song "Boys with Luv" has surpassed 1.7 billion views on YouTube, making it the second-most watched video following "Dynamit...
09:37 Aug. 22
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) -- The latest trilateral summit among the leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan has helped establish a "basic framework" for coping with North Korea's nuclear ...
18:21 Aug. 20
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is likely to downgrade the infection level of COVID-19 to the lowest category on par with seasonal flu this month, health officials said Sunday, in a step to ...
14:57 Aug. 20
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- Korean has been the second most dominant language among the non-English songs that have reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to a recent report by...
11:36 Aug. 19
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Park Jin visited Rwanda and held talks with senior officials on ways to strengthen cooperation in technology and other future-oriented areas, his office ...
11:01 Aug. 13