On Sept. 18, a teenager’s cartoon satirizing President Yoon Suk-yeol won a top prize at a local cartoon contest. No major news outlets gave it major coverage. The work was displayed for three days until Monday at the Bucheon International Comics Festival. It drew some attention, and mixed comments, on social media. Then on Tuesday, a day after the exhibition’s end, the work was thrust into the ...

The night then turned into a nocturnal splendor as the massive crowd responded by turning on flashlights on their phones -- everybody in the concert hall was united by his music. The Kid LAROI also prepared a special event, where he invited a fan to sing along with a song on stage. One lucky fan named Vasco came into the singer’s eye and sang along to “So Done” as the singer played the drum. Af...

From a ruler to an academic, a musician and a linguist, King Sejong wore many hats. And the 15th-century monarch who invented Korea’s writing system Hangeul has also been an inspiration for Korean filmmakers and TV drama producers. The most recent of the big-screen attempts to convincingly depict Sejong was 2019's “The King’s Letters,” directed by Jo Chul-hyun and starring none other than “Paras...

Places across Seoul that commemorate King Sejong and his creation of Korea's writing system

The South Korean government will push for the lifting of a ban on public access to North Korean television and media channels, a top official on inter-Korean relations told lawmakers Friday. The government will seek to "gradually" open the door for North Korean broadcasts, media and publications in an effort to promote mutual understanding between the two Koreas, Unification Minister Kwon Young-...

Senior defense officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan had a conference call Friday to discuss joint responses against North Korea's evolving missile threats, Seoul's defense ministry said. The phone talks among Deputy Defense Minister for Policy Heo Tae-keun and his US and Japanese counterparts, Ely Ratner and Kazuo Masuda, respectively, came after a spate of the North's missile p...

President Yoon Suk-yeol said Friday he agreed with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a phone call that relations between the two nations should be restored as early as possible and agreed to firmly respond to North Korean provocations. “We agreed that if Korea-Japan relations go back to the good times as early as possible and smooth corporate and public exchanges return, it will be benefi...

South Korea's new COVID-19 cases were below 30,000 for the second straight day Friday, as the virus wave continued to show signs of slowing down. The country reported 22,298 new COVID-19 infections, including 54 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 24,933,756, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Friday's count is down from 28,648 cases a day earlier and lower t...

President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday defended his plan to abolish the gender ministry, saying it is aimed at better protecting women and other vulnerable groups. Yoon had pledged to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family during the presidential campaign, sparking fierce opposition from politicians and activists who feared it would undermine women's rights. The government finalized the ...

South Korea's central bank said Friday it will maintain its position to raise interest rates going forward to combat inflation that is expected to stay in the 5-6 percent range "for a considerable period of time." In a report submitted to lawmakers for a parliamentary audit, the Bank of Korea (BOK) voiced concerns a sharp slide of the local currency against the US dollar will likely apply upward...

Oscar Wilde(1854. ~1900)는 참 글을 잘 쓴다. 그의 독설적인 유머는 웃음을 짓게도 하고 불편하게도 한다. 대학 시절 그를 참 재미있는 인물로 알게 되어 그의 글을 조금 읽어봤다. 이 분의 명언들을 함께 읽어보자! 머리가 좋아지게 하는 글들이 될 것이다. 이분의 글과 함께 다른 분들의 유머러스한 역설적인 명언을 추가해 본다. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." (항상 당신의 적들을 용서하라. 이것만큼 그들을 화나게 하는 일은 없을 것이다.) “No good deed goes unpunished.” (어떤 선행도 벌받지 않고 지나가는 일은 없다.) "The old believe everything, the mi...

South Korea and the United States began another joint naval exercise, involving a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in waters east of the Korean Peninsula on Friday in order to reinforce the allies' operational capabilities against North Korean provocations, Seoul's military said. The allies' navies kicked off the two-day maritime maneuvering drills in the international waters of the East Sea wi...

The number of teenage drug offenders has almost doubled over the past three years, but drug education has been given to less than 4 percent of students during the same period, a lawmaker said Friday. Teenagers accused of using drugs totaled 309 last year, up from 164 in 2019, said Rep. Kang Hoon-sik of the main opposition Democratic Party, citing data from the Korean Association Against Drug Abu...