Two of South Korea’s most iconic athletes — volleyball superstar Kim Yeon-koung and figure skating legend Yuna Kim — held a rare on-camera conversation, uniting two figures who each reached the pinnacle of their sport.

The three civilians put under travel bans include a man with the surname Oh who told South Korean media that he flew drones to check radiation levels at a North Korean uranium facility, according to a joint military and police investigation team.

With the breakthrough, Korea’s stock market has officially entered the landmark 5,000 milestone, a figure once thought of as out of reach. The new achievement comes less than three months since the index crossed the 4,000-point threshold on Oct. 27, 2025. The Kospi has been on a 12-session winn...

The global hit "Culinary Class Wars" will continue with a third season following its massive success, this time shifting the format to team-based ... "I know many chefs are applying for the third season and I am also looking forward to it," chef Anh Sung-jae, one of the judges of the show, said.

The Bank of Korea and internet giant Naver on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence model built exclusively for the central bank, marking what officials described as the first deployment of an in-house AI model by a central bank anywhere in the world.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a ceremony inaugurating a hot spring resort in the country's northeastern province, praising it as becoming a "wonderful" holiday camp for the people after years of remodeling, state media reported Wednesday.

South Korea will begin enforcing its Artificial Intelligence Act on Thursday, becoming the first country to formally establish safety requirements for high-performance — or so-called frontier, AI systems — a move that sets the country apart in the global regulatory landscape.

The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to 23 years in prison, finding him guilty of playing a key role in an insurrection by aiding former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed attempt to impose martial law on Dec. 3, 2024.

The fire broke out at a 5th-floor unit in Gwangyang, leaving three girls under the age of five stranded inside. Their mother could not enter through the front door due to heavy smoke and flames. She instead went to the unit directly above and climbed down with her bare hands to reach her daughters.

Han’s “We Do Not Part” (translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris) is a fiction finalist, along with Karen Russell’s “The Antidote”; Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”; Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III),” translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and ...

Violinist Lim Hyun-jae won the first prize at the 2026 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition (EOIVC) held in Florida on Sunday (local time), marking a major milestone in her comeback after a yearslong hiatus following a car accident.

While the company insists ads will not influence responses, reactions from Korean users and industry insiders suggest growing unease over trust, privacy and the risk of service abandonment.

The raid comes after a 30-something graduate student, surnamed Oh, claimed to have flown the drones himself in a media interview aired last Friday. The team also questioned a civilian suspect over the alleged incursions the same day. The two, who attended the same university in Seoul, have been ...

“I love noodles. When I think about what I’ll do until old age, noodles come to mind. I won’t be able to employ many people or serve elaborate dishes later. I want a place where I can close the door and rest if I’m unwell. Noodles fit that structure—selling over 50 bowls a day before taking a br...”

The team said its process eliminated more than 95 percent of micro- and nanoplastics within 10 minutes by using plate-shaped iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles. The approach targets plastic fragments too small to be captured by conventional filtration and sedimentation...

The total stood at 3.2 million as of December, including 2.13 million women and 1.07 million men, reflecting a steady rise in participation in the country’s end-of-life decision system, often described as allowing a “dignified death.”

Jeon Hyun-sun explores how images relate to space through painting, while also working across installation, video and sculpture.

It is not every day you get this kind of glimpse into Korea's most inescapable celebrity, one whose trajectory to stardom over the past decade remains unmatched among her peers. Han started out modeling and picked up bit parts on TV before "The World of the Married" made her a household name in 2020

Once a week at lunchtime, a small crowd gathers outside Microsoft Korea’s Seoul office, holding protests over fears that AI could make their jobs obsolete. The weekly demonstration has become a visible symbol of the deep anxiety gripping white-collar workers, particularly software developers ...

Tracing their lineage back to the foundational Dangun myth, shamanism remains a resilient thread in the Korean cultural fabric. A new short documentary featuring the "Snowflake Witch" offers a rare glimpse into how this tradition is preserved through a unique, matriarchal apprenticeship ...

The drama tells the story of Joo Ho-jin, a professional interpreter who is fluent in several languages. His life takes a turn when he begins working for global superstar Cha Mu-hee, leading to a series of misunderstandings and emotional discoveries across scenic locations in Japan, Italy and Canada

Drawing from real events and personal ambition, the six-part drama follows the collision of two men: Baek Ki-tae (Hyun Bin), who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of money and power, and Jang Geon-young (Jung Woo-sung), a stubborn prosecutor determined to bring him to justice.

Longer job searches and rising housing costs are intensifying economic pressure on young Koreans amid the country's structural challenges and sluggish growth, it was reported on Monday. The share of young people living in sub-standard housing rose to 11.5 percent in 2023 from 5.6 percent in 2010.

Fans were especially angered by the fact that Im had been drinking whisky when filming a Balvenie-sponsored video, which was uploaded just five days before his confession. The chef lost more than 20,000 subscribers within 19 hours after the revelation and subsequently deleted the Balvenie-sponso...

A growing number of Koreans now see a “good death” less as a family-centered moment and more as one free of pain and financial strain, a shift highlighted in a study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA).

Since her debut as a member of the idol group Girls’ Generation in 2007, Seohyun has been active as a singer, songwriter and actor. Little was known about her hobbies until last week, when it was announced that the singer would perform on March 13 at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul as a solo violinist

The standing of chefs in the entertainment industry has shifted. Once limited to appearing as panelists or assistants to celebrities on cooking programs, they have now risen to take center stage.

As Seoul opens up its first public hanok rental program, newlyweds, young families and others with dreams of living in Korea's traditional housing have flocked to check out the homes being offered.

Through what she calls the “feminine grotesque,” the artist challenges sanitized ideals of beauty as upheld in male-centered visual traditions. Her exposed interiors—visceral, porous and monstrous—recast the female body as an untamed presence, pushing back against its long history of objectification

Bullfighting in Cheongdo, North Gyeongsang Province, is facing new government scrutiny as criticism mounts that the practice amounts to animal abuse, putting a decades-old and lucrative local attraction under renewed pressure over animal welfare concerns.

Accusations of South Korean drones entering North Korea have erupted into a political controversy after it emerged that two key suspects previously worked at the presidential office under former President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Nearly 350,000 domestic and foreign visitors took part in temple stay programs last year, marking an all-time high amid growing favorable perceptions of Buddhism in Korea. The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, the country’s largest Buddhist sect, said Sunday that about 349,000 people took part in ...

SBS’s “No Tail to Tell” is a new fantasy romance drama starring Kim Hye Yoon as Eun Ho, a quirky Gen Z gumiho (magical nine-tailed fox) who is determined not to become human, and Lomon as Kang Si Yeol, an overly confident world-class soccer player. The drama will follow their chaotic journey ...

“We did not realize it before it was released,” said co-producer Kim Hak-min to reporters, referring to an incident where Black Spoon chef Culinary Monster’s real name was revealed to reporters during an interview segment. The mishap led to viewers eventually figuring out the show's final two.

A joint military-police task force questioned a civilian suspect on Friday as part of investigations into North Korea’s claim that a drone launched from South Korea violated its airspace. Following news of the probe, another individual came forward and took responsibility for flying the drone ...

Among the 38 companies listed in the humanoid robotics category at CES, Hyundai’s Atlas — developed with its US-based subsidiary Boston Dynamics — stood out as one of the few systems positioned for “near-term deployment.”

Foreign housekeepers employed locally under a government pilot project launched two years ago were severely underpaid and had to do extra work that was not agreed upon, a survey showed Saturday.

David Tizzard: More than once I’ve walked up to a counter in a coffee shop and seen the two people working there silently and almost imperceptibly shift places. They have switched spots based on who is better adapted at speaking English. I smile, keep my eyes relatively low, and order in Korean...

Min Jin Lee’s first novel since her million-selling “Pachinko” is a long book that grew out of a basic question: What do Koreans care most about? “We’re obsessed with education, and it became my obsession over why Koreans care so much,” says Lee, whose “American Hagwon,” scheduled for Sept. 29...

There is a saying in Korea: “In the North, we have Kim So-wol; in the South, we have Kim Yeong-nang.” The two stand as twin pillars of the country’s lyric poetry, their work still shaping the emotional landscape of modern Korean verse. Kim Yeong-nang (1903-50) left behind just 86 poems, written ...

A city bus crashed into a building in Seoul's Seodaemun District on Friday and ‍13 people are feared injured, including two believed to be in ‍serious condition, according to local reports. The bus crashed into what ‍appeared to be ‍the glass facade of the NH NongHyup Bank building, apparently after...

"This time, the sesame tofu was meant as a message to myself as a middle-aged chef, someone who feels their stamina weakening, their creativity fading, and their mind not working as quickly as it used to. With the final dish, I wanted push myself just a little harder." - Choi Kang-rok

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on multiple charges related to his martial law declaration. The ruling, televised live, was the first judicial decision addressing Yoon’s responsibility linked to the imposition of military rule on Dec. 3, 2024.

Min Jin Lee, the Korean American novelist whose sweeping epic “Pachinko” became a global phenomenon, will publish her long-awaited new novel this September, nearly a decade after her last work of long fiction. According to publishers, “American Hagwon” will be released in the US and UK on Sept. 29.

Kimchi stew. Budae-jjigae. Dak-galbi. Braised seafood. Stir-fried squid. Instant ramen. The list seems endless. Yet Korea’s relationship with chili peppers is surprisingly recent. According to historians, chili peppers arrived on the peninsula only about 400 years ago. As rice production rose in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he hopes to restore relations between his country and South Korea, according to a news report. Putin made the remark during a credentials presenting ceremony with new ambassadors to Moscow, including Seoul's top envoy Lee Sok-bae.

In a vast country whose young people are increasingly on the move, the new, one-button app, “Are You Dead?” — which has taken the country by digital storm this month — is essentially exactly what it says it is. People who live alone in far-off cities and may be at risk —or just perceived as such...

Decorated U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park moved to South Korea, a country he had not lived in since he was seven years old, after calling Hawaii home for more than five decades. This was after he was told to self-deport by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

While the competition was fierce, it also felt like a warm message to everyone working hard in their own lives. At the center of this emotion was the contest’s winner Choi Kang-rok. “I wanted to rest from being the 'Braised Man' for just one day.” It was a special moment of honesty from a maste...

Unionized bus drivers in Seoul have reached a collective wage deal with the management, ending a two-day strike that caused major disruptions for commuters, according to officials Thursday. The agreement was reached late Wednesday in a special mediation session at the Seoul branch of the Nationa...