South Korean indie rock sensation Hyukoh will embark on an eight-city North American tour, according to its management agency Thursday. The band will kick off the tour at The Opera House in Toronto on Friday (local time) and later travel to six US cities, including New York, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to DRDRamc. Hyukoh will finish the tour in Vancouver on Sept. 23. The ba...

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party said Thursday that it will send a delegation to the United States to drum up support for its drive for the redeployment of US tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula. Rep. Kim Gwang-lim, the party's policy chief, said that the delegation will meet US politicians and journalists who share the need for the redeployment to counter escalating North Ko...

The possibility of any outright military conflicts on the Korean Peninsula remains low, but it has risen from "very low levels" after North Korea's latest nuclear test, global credit appraiser Moody's Investors Services said Thursday. Defying international warnings, North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test Sunday, claiming it was a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded onto a lo...

A high ranking official at the national football association said Thursday that former men's national team head coach Guus Hiddink will not be returning to the helm, saying such a claim is "ridiculous." Kim Ho-gon, the Korea Football Association (KFA) Vice President who leads the technical committee, said he feels uncomfortable by a media report that Hiddink could coach the national team again f...

North Korea has held a public event to celebrate its latest detonation of what it calls a hydrogen bomb that can fit on a long-range missile, calling the test an "auspicious" national event, its state media said Thursday. Citizens and servicemen were gathered Wednesday at a plaza named after late founder Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang to mark Sunday's nuclear test, according to the Korean Central News...

The British Council has stopped its long-running English Language Teacher Training Program (ELT program) in North Korea due to mounting instability on the Korean Peninsula, a US broadcaster reported Thursday. The council recently made the decision to follow the British foreign ministry's latest travel advisory that warned its people not to visit the North, Voice of America said, citing an email ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Thursday to push for a new UN Security Council resolution with the "strongest" sanctions against North Korea, including cutting off all oil supplies to the impoverished country. "Regarding the North's nuclear test and missile launches, the leaders of the two countries noted it was time to increase pressure on the No...

President Moon Jae-in's approval rating dropped below the 70-percent range for the first time this week amid security concerns heightened by North Korea's recent nuclear test, a survey showed Thursday. In the Realmeter survey conducted from Monday through Wednesday, Moon's public support was tallied at 69 percent, down 4.1 percentage points from last week's poll carried out on Thursday and Frida...

South Korea's defense ministry announced Thursday the deployment of a THAAD missile defense system has been completed in a "tentative" step to counter urgent threats from North Korea. The announcement came soon after the US Forces Korea (USFK) transported four additional THAAD rocket launchers into its new base in Seongju, some 300 kilometers south of Seoul, despite fierce protests by local resi...

Returning home with a World Cup spot, South Korea football coach Shin Tae-yong said Thursday his side will now try to play attacking football. South Korea confirmed their ninth consecutive World Cup appearance Tuesday after they played to a draw with Uzbekistan in Tashkent. They finished in second place in Group A in the final Asian qualifying round with 15 points, two points above third-place S...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday kicked off preorders for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 8, ahead of the official release slated for later this month. The South Korean giant plans to ship the new phablets to early adopters starting Sept. 15, ahead of the official released slated for Sept. 21. Samsung Electronics finalized the price tag of 64 gigabyte Galaxy Note 8 at 1.09 milli...

South Korea is expected to see the number of single senior household heads jump in the future and exceed 1 million in about a quarter-century, a government agency said Thursday. According to Statistics Korea, the number of unmarried household heads aged 65 and older is forecast to increase steadily to reach 52,000 this year before skyrocketing to 1.04 million in 2043. The figure, which rose 7.6...

The embattled leader of the minor opposition Bareun Party stepped down Thursday over a graft scandal that threatened to derail the party's efforts to reform conservative politics. Lee Hye-hoon faces a prosecutorial probe over allegations that a businesswoman gave cash and gifts worth about 60 million won ($53,022) to her over nearly a dozen occasions from October 2015 to March this year. Lee fla...

The leaders of South Korea and Japan on Thursday condemned North Korea's recent nuclear test and pledged to enhance cooperation between the two countries to tackle its threat to regional security. "Japanese people and the South Korean public have come to be greatly concerned due to North Korea's continuing provocations," South Korean President Moon Jae-in said during a bilateral summit with Japa...

Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its top global smartphone maker title in June and July, data showed Thursday, with China-based Huawei Technologies Inc. rising to No. 2 for the first time ever on a monthly basis. According to the data compiled by Counterpoint Research, Samsung Electronics accounted for more than 20 percent of the world's smartphone market in the two-month period, holding onto ...