East Asia

Take a stroll down a street in Seoul these days, and you're bound to sight some form of rabbit commodities, commercials, statues or banners. In fact, rabbits have been popping up everywhere from as early as the beginning of last month. Why are......

As banking hours are cut, some customers claim they are having trouble getting their banking done. Some are protesting, especially as some branches are threaten to shut for lunch. Kim Mi-jin, a 26-year-old office worker who works in Gangseo......

Check out Gareth Bale's greatest moments as a Spurs player. The Welshman enjoyed two spells at the club, scoring 71 goals....

A rental car crashed through wooden guardrails of a coastal road and fell from a 200-meter seaside cliff in Geoje, South Gyeongsang, on Thursday morning. All four people in the car were found dead....

Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, and Chargee d'affaires of Canada to Korea Tamara Mawhinney, celebrate the 60th anniversary of Korea-Canada relations at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul on Thursday....

LG Energy Solution and Honda Motor established L-H Battery Company, a battery-making joint venture, on Friday....

Kwon Soon-woo beat world No. 40 Jack Draper in the semifinals at the Adelaide International 2 on Friday, advancing to the final at an ATP 250 event for the first time since he won the Astana Open in Kazakhstan in 2021....

After 73 days of investigating the deadly Itaewon crowd surge, police on Friday announced that they referred 23 people to prosecutors — but concluded they won't hold the interior minister or police chief accountable for any charges....

Koreans are paying the highest real estate taxes in the developed world....

Huh Chang-soo, chairman of the FKI has been serving as chairman since 2011 and is in his sixth consecutive term. At the end of all his earlier terms, he also tried to resign but stayed on due to the lack of a good replacement....

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The fan autograph event for boy band VIXX's Leo and Ken that was scheduled for this weekend has been postponed indefinitely. The boy band's label Jellyfish Entertainment announced Friday that it decided to cancel ......

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Friday that it finalized this year's culture and arts budget at 1.5131 trillion won ($1.217 billion). The funds will be used in fields like literature, tourism, sports and related policies......

Harry Kane could make history in the North London Derby on Sunday. Two goals would make him Spurs' all-time leading scorer and bring him up to 200 Premier League goals....

Its just the start of 2023 and there's already plenty of drama series captivating viewers. If you're curious to discover where some scenes in those shows were filmed, here are some spots that also double as great travel destinations....

YouTuber Ken Rhee reported 457 malicious comments posted on online news articles, most of which were covering the former Navy officer going to Ukraine despite government warning. According to the Namdaemun Police Precinct, Rhee compiled data of ......

Korea is expecting its first Lunar New Year holiday without social distancing measures since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the country will still take measures to make sure the number of infections stays under control during the holiday....

Singer and actor Lee Seung-gi donated 550 million won ($450,000) to the Korean Red Cross in celebration of his birthday on Jan. 13. The donation was made to help increase bloodmobiles ......

The Bank of Korea raised its base rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.50 percent on Friday in a widely expected move that came as some signs suggest that a change in stance could be in the offing....

Don't go to Gangwon this weekend. The national weather agency has strongly advised the public not to travel to the northeastern province from Saturday to Monday due to the possibility of heavy snow....

A valuable mid-Joseon najeon chilgi, or lacquerware inlaid with mother-of-pearl, box made its way back to its motherland from Japan, due to the National Museum of Korea's supporting organization, Young Friends of The Museum (YFM). According to the......

Webcash Group, a local bookkeeping service operator, signed an agreement with a Cambodian bank in a bid to speed up its digital financing business in the Southeast Asian market....

SK Pharmteco will push back its plan to list on the Nasdaq to as early as 2024, after the markets have had time to recover from the current downturn...

ITZY sold over a million copies of its latest EP "Cheshire" (2022), giving the girl group its second million-seller hit album. "Cheshire...

Blackpink was nominated for the International Group of the Year in 2023 at The BRIT Awards, becoming the first K-pop girl group to be nominated at the prestigious ceremony. Blackpink will be competing with ......

Korean golf legend K.J. Choi wielded a hot putter as he rolled back the years with an opening 4-under 66 at the Sony Open in Hawaii on Thursday to lie two strokes behind clubhouse leaders Jordan Spieth, Taylor Montgomery and Chris Kirk....

Due to the short holiday period and the weakness of the yen, those flying internationally are most often choosing Japan — Osaka, Fukuoka and Tokyo in that order....

Korea and Singapore plan to officially kick off their bilateral digital partnership pact this weekend in a move to boost digital trade and industry cooperation, Seoul's Trade Ministry said Friday....

About 300 millimeters of heavy rain soaked Jeju Island's mountain areas amid strong winds over the past day, causing flight cancellations and delays, the weather agency said Friday....

One hour before the much awaited collaboration between Big Bang's Taeyang and BTS's Jimin hits the music scene this afternoon, Taeyang will be holding an online live session for fans. Titled...

The Korean economy is feared to face a bumpy road ahead on high inflation, slowing domestic consumption as well as sluggish exports, the Finance Ministry said Friday....

The office of President Yoon Suk Yeol has allowed local broadcaster MBC's reporters to board the presidential jet for his upcoming overseas trip, officials said Friday, after banning them earlier over controversial coverage....

Korea reported 39,726 new Covid-19 cases Friday, down 17,000 from the same day the previous week, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency....

U.S. President Joe Biden underscored the importance of a strong U.S.-Korea alliance on Thursday, saying the countries are stronger when they work together....

The United States remains ready and capable to deter and counter any potential aggression against South Korea under its extended deterrence, a Pentagon spokesperson said Thursday, in apparent opposition to possible nuclear armament of its Asian ally....

Police said Friday they have arrested 78 people in a massive housing rental scam that caused a combined unpaid sum of 8 billion won ($6.5 million) in deposits belonging to dozens of tenants....

The Bank of Korea raised the policy rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.50 percent on Friday....

Seoul shares opened higher Friday as investors await a rate hike decision by the Bank of Korea later in the morning....

An educational robot is displayed at Education Korea 2023, an education fair, at COEX in southern Seoul on Thursday....

A worker at Incheon International Airport transports Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines for infants and young children at the airport's freight terminal on Thursday. This is the first time the Pfizer vaccines for infants and young children came to Korea....

People shop for groceries at the traditional market in Mangwon-dong, western Seoul, on Thursday. Based on a household of four, the cost to buy groceries to prepare for the ancestorial rites for the Lunar New Year holiday has risen 4.1 percent to......

Models display KT's new LTE smartphone for kids, the KT Shinbi Kids Phone 3, on Thursday....

Foreign tourists take a photo in front of the Welcome Center for the Korea Grand Sale 2023 in Seoul's downtown shopping mecca Myeongdong on Thursday....

Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin said that Lotte will uphold company values by enhancing global competitiveness and continuing to push the company to challenge itself at a biannual value creation meeting Thursday. "The contemporary era is one of......

North Korea appears to have mobilized military equipment for a rehearsal for a parade at Mirim training ground near Pyongyang, according to satellite photos captured by Planet Labs earlier this month....

MotorTrend, a U.S. automobile magazine, ranks the 50 most influential people in the global automotive industry each year in its Power List....

Korean Air will increase the number of flights to the United States and Europe starting March....

The former chairman of SBW Group, who was nabbed on a golf course in Thailand on Tuesday after eight months on the lam, could return to Korea as early as Friday....

Boy band BTS was nominated for an iHeart Radio Music Award for the sixth year in a row. According to the list of nominees announced by the awards on Wednesday, BTS scored three nominations. The lead track "Yet To Come" of its anthology album ......

Korea will extend the trading hours of the country's foreign exchange market to attract overseas investors....