South Korea are playing in their 10th consecutive FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and it's a record streak for a country without the ultimate championship trophy in football. It will be a tough task for So...ay, they will reach the quarterfinals for the first time at an away World Cup. This is South Korea's 11th World Cup overall, but they have been to the knockouts only twice. As co-hosts of the tourna...

...me after a South Korean corner hit the back of Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo and landed at Kim's feet. South Korea will face their most difficult test yet, with Brazil going for their sixth Worl... slim margin in goal difference over Switzerland, who also had six points. Neymar, one of football's biggest stars, has missed the past two matches with an ankle injury he picked up in the opener. Ne...

...ation. Suh is accused of orchestrating the deletion of intelligence records related to North Korea’s killing of Lee Dae-jun, a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official, at sea two years ago, and the...on ($72,729) bail. The court forbade him from meeting or communicating with others suspected in Lee’s case. Separately, Suh is also being investigated for meddling in the investigation of the forced ...

South Korea pulled off a 2-1 upset against powerhouse Portugal on Saturday, Korean time and, despite Uruguay’s 2-0 defeat over Ghana, achieved an improbable feat of making the knockout stage. It is the Taeguk Warriors’ first trip to the knockout stage since 2010. This marks the third time in the nation’s history that South Korea has made it to the final 16. Portugal, despite the loss to the und...

...ges in pronunciation and grammar that will upend conventional wisdom about Korean. Changes in pronunciation and grammar are not new to South Korea. The Korean War and rapid urbanization from the 1960s to the 1980s brought Koreans from different regions together in new places. As Seoul deepened its position as the center of South Korea, people from other regions began to accommodate to the language of Seoul, w...

...lbum is perhaps the most Kim Nam-joon-ish. And I anticipate it will mark another starting point for me," RM said in Friday's video. In closing his introduction, RM said, "I don't listen to my album once its out. I think it's up to the listeners, the audience from here on. I hope you could share what I had felt and, with your own interpretations and space, blow in a life of its own for the songs."

... carbon capture and sequestration, and adding subsidies for clean hydrogen and other “sustainable” fuel production were suggested by both the Foreign and Trade Ministries. “Our approach is clear: it’s all about piecing together a comprehensive, strategic plan to make most out of the crisis or the opportunity, depending on with what angle we look at this,” a senior official with knowledge of the m...

...rm Bae, Kim & Lee, on Nov. 24 denouncing the agency for not having once made a payment for his song’s digital streams or downloads on online music platforms but rather insulting the singer by calling ... and its CEO Kwon Jin-young whom he has relied on as family,” the statement read. In addition, Lee’s legal representation sent to the agency a certification of contents that the company should have c...

South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Friday that it would deal sternly with the nation’s unionized cargo truckers for hindering an on-site probe into its head offices as their walkout continues over a week. Investigators of Fair Trade Commission visited the union's headquarters in Seoul and Busan to see whether its members had forced other workers to stop their transport duties or join the stri...

Sanha and Moonbin of Astro will release their third EP as a unit, said the group's agency Fantagio on Friday. A black and white poster for the EP “Incense” showed a flower and read “coming soon.” Th...gions and main track “Who” was No. 1 on its top songs chart in seven regions. Last month, the unit’s first photo book “Magazine” was published. Separately, Astro put out a DVD of its first concert f...

...ince, has been the setting for video content from K-pop artists such as BTS, WannaOne and Blackpink’s Jisoo. BTS filmed its reality show “In The Soop” in the area back in 2020 and 2021. The DKDKTV or...ve also been shared on other online channels, including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. The program’s producer Lee Ji-yoon said, “We’d like to thank watchers around the globe who have given favorable ...

...ukje Gallery since April 2021, has joined the list for the first time, ranking at 88. Arunanondchai's first solo exhibition with Kukje Gallery, titled “Image, Symbol, Prayer,” will open Dec. 15. Mean... as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Chong Do-ryun, the chief curator of Hong Kong's M+, is listed at 56th place. And the Korean-American artist Anicka Yi placed 57th for her explorat...

...prestigious schools, and accepting favors from the faculty. While Cho was senior secretary in Moon’s Cheong Wa Dae, his daughter received scholarships from a medical school in Busan despite having fa...was complicit. “Prosecutors are assuming complicity based solely on fact that Cho is part of Chung’s family,” the former justice minister’s lawyer said during a court appearance in June. “He was not ...

Suh Hoon, ex-spy chief and former President Moon Jae-in’s national security director, was summoned to Seoul court on Friday for a questioning after prosecutors filed for an arrest warrant against him...s not crossing the line,” he said. He also said that Moon had earlier promised to his late brother’s son that he would “make sure that the entire process is transparent.” “But you hid the records. T...

...vara Bodhisattva statue from the Unified Silla period and an Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva statue from the Srivijaya period of Thailand -- are also on exhibition, facing each other. "At the exhibition's opening ceremony, Korean delegates were surprised to learn that Thailand also shares a similar history of recordings of the king's rituals," said an NMK researcher who attended the gallery opening ceremony in Bangkok. National Museum of Korea hopes the exhibition will play a pivotal role in opening a permanent Korean section w...