China imposed the so-called “K-wave ban” in 2016 in retaliation for Seoul's deployment of the Thaad missile defence system. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

1957 -- A group of Koreans who were held in Tokyo prisons for over a decade due to war crimes during World War II is released. They had been drafted by the Japanese colonial regime, mostly in the ...

About 48,000 hectares (118,611 acres) of woodland — equivalent to about 80% of the size of Seoul — were scorched, marking the ...

A major global maritime conference kicked off in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan on Tuesday to provide a ...

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WestJet Cargo announced the expansion of its Calgary-Seoul (Incheon International Airport) service, doubling its flight ...

North Korea confirmed for the first time on Monday that it had sent troops to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine under ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korea for sending troops to fight alongside Russia in his war ...