K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s new single “Pink Venom” debuted atop iTunes charts in 69 countries around the world, the group’s agency said Saturday.YG Entertainment said the song, released the previous day, ranked No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in Nor…
K-pop supergroups BTS and BLACKPINK have been nominated for group of the year in the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, the U.S. music channel has announced.The two K-pop bands will compete for Best Group Of The Year with City Girls, Foo Fighters, Imagine Dr…
Defending Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min was held without a goal for his third straight Premier League match on Saturday in London, while a potential clash against his countryman did not materialize.Son and Tottenham Hotspur defeated Wolverhampton Wa…
A group of lawmakers from South Korea’s rival parties departed for Washington, D.C., Saturday for a weeklong visit at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.National Assembly Vice Speaker Chung Jin-suk, Reps. Kim Seok-ki and Kim Jung-jae from the …
The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans it disperses to needy countries like war-torn Ukraine — which is one of the fund’s biggest borrowers.The move comes as more countries will need to turn to the…
Hundreds of persimmon trees that should be loaded with yellow fruit lie wilted in Gan Bingdong’s greenhouse in southwestern China, adding to mounting farm losses in a scorching summer that is the country’s driest in six decades.Gan’s farm south of the …
Elizabeth Salmon, newly appointed U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea’s human rights, will make her first official visit to South Korea this month, a U.N. office said Saturday.Salmon will be in South Korea from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, an official of th…
South Korea’s military reported 1,760 additional COVID-19 cases Saturday, raising the total caseload among its service members to 250,014, the defense ministry said.The new cases, tallied as of 2 p.m., included 1,131 from the Army, 155 from the Navy an…