South Korea’s liberal opposition parties are expected to win a landslide victory in the parliamentary election, initial exit polls suggest. The result, if confirmed, would make conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck for his remaining three years in office. The joint exit polls by South Korea’s three major TV stations – KBS, MBC […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Initial exit polls suggested South Korea’s liberal opposition parties are expected to win a landslide victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election. The joint exit polls by South Korea’s three major TV stations – KBS, MBC and SBS – show the main opposition Democratic Party and its satellite party were forecast to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors on Thursday and promised to respect their position during future talks over the government’s contentious push to sharply increase medical school admissions. The meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Park Dan, head of an emergency committee for […]
(Bloomberg) — South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol said Monday he won’t back down on a plan to increase the number of medical school seats while he remains open for talks in a weekslong dispute that has prompted the walkout of almost all the nation’s trainee doctors. Most Read from Bloomberg In an address to […]
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world. Construction on the “Hotel of Doom” began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times. One side of the 1,080-foot building has been outfitted with LED screens used for light shows. At 1,080 feet, North Korea‘s Ryugyong Hotel […]
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – Medical professors in South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions. “It is clear that increasing medical school admissions will […]
For more than a decade, a slew of posts on Reddit and across social media have made the claim that in the early 1990s, the then-heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, Kim Jong Il — who is still known today, even after his death, as the eternal chairman of the National Defense Commission of the republic […]
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un publicly rode in a car given to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin in “clear proof” of the strengthening friendship between the two countries, state media reported on Saturday. Pyongyang and Moscow have forged closer ties since Kim met Putin in Russia in September […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined troops training on a new tank model and drove one himself, state media reported Thursday, as his rivals South Korea and the US wrapped up their annual military exercises. It is the third time Mr Kim was reported to have observed military exercises since the start of the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined his troops in training to operate newly developed battle tanks as he called for bigger efforts to prepare for war, state media reported Thursday. The North’s tank training was seen as a response to the annual 11-day South Korean-U.S. military drills that are […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president vowed Wednesday not to tolerate the prolonged walkouts by thousands of junior doctors, calling them “an illegal collective action” that threatens public health and shakes the country’s governing systems. President Yoon Suk Yeol’s government was in the process of suspending the licenses of about 9,000 medical interns […]
STORY: South Korea’s fertility rate is already the world’s lowest. And it continued its dramatic decline in 2023. “The number of newborns in 2023 was 230,000, which is 19,200 down or a decrease of 7.7% from a year earlier. The total fertility rate recorded was 0.72, which is 0.06 down from 0.78 the previous year.” […]