Beyond Utopia,” an Oscar short-listed film on North Korean defectors, will be screened at the U.S. State Department in Washington this week, officials said Thursday, in an apparent move to shine a light on the escapees’ treacherous journey in search …
The fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympics will open in eastern South Korea on Friday night, as the eyes of the winter sports world once again turn to Gangwon Province six years after the Winter Olympics in the region.
Gangwon Province will ser…
Recent satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site does not suggest imminent preparations for a new nuclear experiment despite apparent maintenance activity related to one of the underground tunnels there, a U.S. monitor said Thur…
From Jamaican bobsledders to Kenyan alpine skiers, more than two dozen athletes from countries with little winter sports tradition will compete at the Winter Youth Olympics in eastern South Korea beginning Friday, thanks to training opportunities pro…
South Korean stocks soared more than 1.3 percent Friday as big-cap chip shares rallied following an overnight tech boost on Wall Street. The local currency edged up against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) jum…
Prosecutors indicted the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) on Friday over the bungled response to the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon.
The indictment of SMPA chief Kim Kwang-ho came a year and three months after …
Abuja: At a bustling food market in Nigeria’s capital, Mummy Christiana breaks down in tears as she describes how a conflict thousands of kilometers away leaves her family struggling to