President Yoon Suk Yeol has tapped a former presidential aide from the Park Geun-hye government to head the National Intelligence Service(NIS).The top office on Wednesday announced the nomination of Kim Kyou-hyun, a career diplomat who served as first …
President Yoon Suk Yeol carried out his diplomatic duties for a second day, meeting with foreign dignitaries in Seoul to congratulate him on his inauguration.On Wednesday, Yoon met with former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Central African…
Kim Ji-ha, a poet and democracy activist who was imprisoned for his fight against the authoritarian government in the 1970s, was laid to rest on Wednesday.A funeral service was held in Wonju, Gangwon Province, attended by his family members and members…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reportedly made a request to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take down a statue in Berlin symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery.According to Japan’s Sankei Shimbun newspaper on Wednesday, Kishida a…
SEOUL– The latest album from K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together (TXT) has sold over a million copies for the first time in its three-year career, the group’s agency said Wednesday.TXT’s fourth EP “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child” has sold 1.07 million c…
SEOUL– South Korea’s military reported 1,399 additional COVID-19 cases Wednesday, raising the total caseload among its service members to 142,024, the defense ministry said.The new cases included 951 from the Army, 192 from the Air Force, 130 from the…
SEOUL– South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed above 40,000 for the second straight day Wednesday amid the government’s effort to move the country back to pre-pandemic normalcy.The country added 43,925 new COVID-19 infections, including 37 cases from …
New COVID-19 cases fell to about 44-thousand amid a general downward trend in infections.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Wednesday that 43-thousand-925 infections were confirmed throughout the previous day, including 37 cases from …