South Korea

A die-hard Queen fan unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Freddie Mercury on Thursday on South Korea’s resort island of Jeju, after an eight-year quest to honor his late hero. The music of British rock band Queen is popular in South…
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North Korea is destroying a South Korean-owned golf course at a scenic mountain resort in the second confirmed case of South Korean assets being eliminated in an area where the rivals once ran a joint tour program, officials said Tuesday in…
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The Constitutional Court in Seoul upheld a ban on tattooing on Thursday, confirming South Korea as the only developed country that permits no one but medical professionals to perform the procedure. Tattoo artists derided the decision,…
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Two aircraft of South Korea’s air force collided in mid-air on Friday during a training exercise, killing three pilots, with a fourth missing in the rare incident, authorities said. More than 30 firefighters and rescuers have begun a…
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Noh Hyeong Ouk, South Korea’s Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) paid a visit to Egypt on Feb 23-25. During the visit, the South Korean Minister met with Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of transportation of Egypt, and had…
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North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile, South Korea’s military said Friday, the nuclear-armed country’s third suspected weapons test in just over a week. “North Korea fires unidentified projectile eastward,” Seoul’s Joint…
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South Korea on Thursday received its first supply of Pfizer’s antiviral COVID-19 pills to treat patients with mild or moderate symptoms. Health officials have described the Paxlovid pills as a potentially important tool to suppress…
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South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution’s (LGES) $10.7 billion initial public offering (IPO) has received bids worth around $80 billion from institutional investors, two sources with direct knowledge of the deal said. The book for…
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A South Korean court has ruled against a same-sex couple demanding the same marital health insurance coverage as heterosexual couples. According to Yonhap Agency, the Seoul Administrative Court affirmed in the ruling that "the union…
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The South Korean Football Association announced on Wednesday that Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min won the award for the best player in South Korea this year for the sixth time, a record. Son topped the vote that took place…
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