SEOUL– A pair of former South Korean league stars and an ex-World Series MVP will represent Major League Baseball (MLB) in exhibition games here next month, the event’s organizers said Thursday. Kim Ha-seong of the San Diego Padres and Darin Ruf of the New York Mets, former Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) players now in … Read more
SEOUL– President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke by phone Thursday and strongly condemned North Korea’s recent missile launches while agreeing on the need to warn the regime that its provocations will have consequences, the presidential office said. The 25-minute phone call came two days after North Korea launched an intermediate-range … Read more
SEOUL– President Yoon Suk-yeol met with the commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Seoul on Thursday amid rising tensions over North Korea’s missile tests, the presidential office said. The meeting with Commander Adm. John Aquilino was not previously announced and followed Wednesday’s redeployment of the U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan to South Korean … Read more
SEOUL– The interior ministry announced a government reorganization plan Thursday under which the gender ministry will be abolished while the veterans affairs agency will be elevated to the ministry level and a separate body for consular services will be newly established. The plan, announced by Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, requires parliamentary approval. But it … Read more
SEOUL– Twelve North Korean military aircraft flew in formation and presumably conducted a firing exercise Thursday, Seoul officials said, in apparent protest over recent military drills between South Korea and the United States. The group of eight fighter jets and four bombers staged the formation flight north of the inter-Korean air boundary at around … Read more
SEOUL– Rival parties on Thursday called on the government to come up with measures to respond to Japan’s plan to discharge radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea starting next year. The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) voiced concerns over the plan … Read more
BUSAN– As the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) returned to a pre-pandemic scale this year, the Busan Cinema Center, the festival’s main venue, was heated up again with enthusiastic fans who gathered to see their favorite actors and directors in person Thursday. Fans attended a series of “Open Talk” events where filmmakers and actors … Read more
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