"Burning," the latest movie from award-winning South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, won best picture at the 55th annual Daejong Film Awards on Monday. Lee's first feature in eight years, "Burning," starring Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun and Jeon Jong-seo, depicts the insecurity, helplessness and anger of young Korean people through the story of a part-time deliveryman and aspiring novelist, and two o...

SEOUL/KAESONG -- South and North Korea agreed Monday to jointly combat pine tree pests and other tree diseases until March next year as part of efforts to intensify their forestry cooperation. The agreement was made during talks held at their joint liaison office in the North's border town of Kaesong. The talks marked the first subsequent meeting to discuss cooperation after the two Koreas' hig...

North Korea's official newspaper again ran an article on the escalating conflict between the United States and China on Monday, citing expert opinions critical of Washington. The Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said in a commentary that confrontations between Washington and Beijing, which were caused by the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on each other, have bee...

South Korea will hold a cultural festival at a former US army base near the inter-Korean border this weekend as part of efforts to transform the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone into a hub of peace-themed tourism, organizers said Monday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Gyeonggi Provincial Government said they will co-host a fall seasonal cultural festival called "DMZ Tran...

South Korea will push to expand the use of drones to monitor illegal fishing and marine littering in waters around the nation, the oceans ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said an internal venture team set a goal of utilizing 500 unmanned aerial vehicles by 2022 to effectively monitor offshore illegal activities. The ministry said it will dispatch three drones to monito...

South Korea will send 1,300 tons of rice to flood victims in Myanmar under a humanitarian food assistance program, the farm ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it will ship the rice from the southeastern port of Busan to the Southeast Asian nation on Tuesday. The rice will be delivered under the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve, which is operate...

More than half of South Koreans back the planned launch of Kakao Corp.'s carpool service, which sparked angry protests from the taxi industry, a survey showed Monday. In a survey conducted by Realmeter with 500 adults across the country Friday, 56 percent of the respondents said they agree with the service because it benefits citizens. Those who oppose it accounted for 28.7 percent, while 15.3 p...

South Korean football club Suwon Samsung Bluewings will try to pull off a second leg comeback against Japan's Kashima Antlers this week to advance to the Asian Football Confederation Champions League final. Suwon will host Kashima at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, south of Seoul, on Wednesday for the second leg of their ACL semifinal match. The top team in West Asia will take on the winners b...

GYEONGJU, North Gyeongsang Province -- Police apprehended a suspect in an armed robbery of a community credit cooperative branch in a southeastern city Monday, in which two employees were injured. Police arrested the 46-year-old suspect, whose identity was withheld, in his home in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, about 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul, police said. He had overdosed on drug...

Hankook Tire Co., the world's seventh-largest tiremaker by sales, said Monday that it has begun to supply its ultra high-performance tires to Volkswagen's Tiguan R-Line package. Hankook Tire said it began to supply the all-season tire, the "Ventus S1 noble2," as original equipment tires to the Volkswagen sport utility vehicle in March this year. The South Korean tiremaker has maintained a strat...

Beauty products are becoming a very important export driver, with shipments growing by leaps and bounds, a report by a local trade promotion agency said Monday. According to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, South Korea exported $4.96 billion worth of cosmetics last year, four times more than in 2013. K-beauty exports for January-September this year came to $4.6 billion, up 31.4 perc...

A majority of local companies neglected to provide public information on their corporate management and governance three months into the adoption of a mechanism that enables the national pension operator to use the data in better exercising their voting rights as stakeholders, an analysis indicated Monday. CEO Score, which tracks corporate management, canvassed 159 local firms in which the Natio...

Online shopping sites are losing visitors, with the number falling by some 14 percent over the past two years, industry data showed Monday. The data counted 77.97 million people visiting the six major online shopping malls in September, down from 83.86 million in the same month last year. Compared with 90.89 million in September 2016, the latest figure is a 14.2 percent drop. By company, TMON s...

20대 남성이 교내 이곳저곳에서 알몸촬영을 해 공분이 일었던 동덕여대가 범행 장소를 대대적으로 소독하고 사실상 외부인 출입을 차단하는 고강도 조치에 나섰지만, 학생들의 불만이 가라앉지 않고 있다. 동덕여대는 20대 남성이 발가벗은 채 교내를 돌아다니며 사진을 촬영한 대학원 건물의 강의실, 복도, 화장실, 엘리베이터 등을 3차례에 걸쳐 소독했으며, 전 층 정수기를 교체할 계획이라고 21일 밝혔다. 또 이달 말부터 정문과 후문에서 배달 오토바이와 택시 등의 출입을 통제하고, 캠퍼스 내 모든 건물에 카드리더기를 설치해 다음 달 1일부터 학생증이 없으면 출입을 막기로 했다. 아울러 총학생회와 협의를 거쳐 외부인 출입규정을 마련해 백주년대강당과 춘강홀 등을 외부인에게 빌려줄 때는 대관 사실을 학생들에게 공지하...

소속사 미디어라인터테인먼트 프로듀서(PD)한테서 4년간 상습 폭행당했다고 폭로한 밴드 더이스트라이트 멤버 이석철·승현 형제 측이 폭행 피해를 입증할 추가 증거를 공개했다. 21일 이석철 측 법률대리인인 법무법인 남강의 정지석 변호사는 이 증거들과 함께 전날 소속사 김창환 회장이 스포츠서울과 인터뷰에서 한 주장을 전면 반박했다. 지난 19일 이석철 측의 기자회견 이후 양측의 공방이 오가면서 소속사에 대한 처벌을 요구하는 청와대 국민청원 게시판의 청원글에는 이틀 만인 이날 16만명 이상이 동의했다. 김 회장은 스포츠서울과 인터뷰에서 "폭행 교사·방조한 적이 없으며 남은 멤버 4명이 증인"이라며 "거짓말에 휩싸인 기분"이라고 억울함을 토로했다. 정 변호사는 "석철이가 왜 더이스트라이트 전체를 대변하는 것처...