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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile Tuesday, the South’s military said, just days after Seoul’s new leader Moon Jae-In and United States President Donald Trump focused on the threat from Pyongyang in their first summit. The launch, which comes as the US prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, was the latest in a series of provocations that have ratcheted up tensions over the nuclear-armed North’s weapons ambitions. The […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — A South Korean barista is gaining popularity online with his recreation of famous paintings like Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ on the tops of cups of coffee. Lee Kang-bin’s passion started at the age of 17 when he first learned how to make coffee. Three years later, he even made it for his fellow troops during his military service at a camp near the border with North Korea. He […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea has a last chance to engage in dialogue with the outside world, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday (July 3) during a meeting with former United States president Barack Obama, Moon’s office said. Obama is visiting Seoul this week to speak at a forum hosted by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, where, earlier on Monday, he said North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons had “done nothing […]
MUJU, South Korea (AFP) — International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach and South Korean President Moon Jae-In will next week discuss the possibility of joint Korean teams competing at next year’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the German said Friday. Seoul’s new president — who backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North — made the suggestion at the World Taekwondo Federation championships in Muju last weekend. In South Korea’s Pyeongchang next year, Moon said he would like to […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump welcomed newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in to the White House on Thursday (June 29). The President and First Lady Melania Trump greeted the South Korean leader and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, at the White House South Lawn entrance. Reporters shouted to the President, asking questions about Donald Trump’s Twitter attack where he called an MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski “crazy” and alleged she had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In arrived in Washington Wednesday on his first overseas trip since taking office, for planned talks with his United States counterpart Donald Trump. Moon, who backs engagement with nuclear-armed North Korea, was to meet Thursday with Trump during his first foreign outing since being sworn in last month after a landslide election win. Late Wednesday, he was scheduled to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The woman at the center of South Korea’s corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term Friday for bribery in the first of a string of criminal cases against her. A long-time friend of South Korea’s disgraced ex-president, Choi was found guilty of bribing professors to have her daughter admitted to Seoul’s prestigious Ewha Woman’s University and receive good grades, despite a poor attendance record. “The court sentences […]
BAGUIO CITY, Benguet (Eagle News) – Nailipat na sa Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center ang Korean national na nawala ng ilang araw sa Mt. Amuyao, Mt. Province para lubusang makapagpagaling. Natagpuan ng mga awtoridad noong Miyerkules, June 21 si Choi Sung Kyu, isang real estate broker sa South Korea, at nagbakasyon lang dito sa Pilipinas. June 9 pa nang mawala si Sung Kyu matapos umakyat sa Mt. Amuyao. Labing isang araw din itong pinaghahanap […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters)– South Korea’s military said on Wednesday (June 21) a drone found earlier this month on a mountain near the Demilitarized Zone border was confirmed to have been from North Korea, and described it as a “grave provocation” that violated the Korean War truce. The drone crashed while returning to the North and was found equipped with a camera and aerial photographs of a United States anti-missile defense system site in a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s military conducted a joint drill with two United States supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers on Tuesday (June 20) as part of a scheduled exercise. At an earlier briefing, a South Korean air force official told reporters the drill will also involve two South Korean F-15K fighter jets. Photos released by the US Department of Defense on Tuesday shows B-1B lancers flying a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The clinging power of octopus tentacles has inspired a breakthrough new adhesive patch that works on wet and oily surfaces with potentially huge medical and industrial uses, according to South Korean researchers. Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse of all invertebrates, but it was their extreme strength that attracted the interest of the research team from Sungkyunkwan University. “Two years ago, we bought an octopus from a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – A package exploded at South Korea’s Yonsei University in central Seoul on Tuesday (June 13) injuring a staff member who opened it in his office, a fire official said. Yonhap news agency said the blast sent small bolt nails flying from the package. It said the engineering faculty member was not seriously injured, suffering burns to his arm, and was being treated at the university hospital. The injured staffer was […]
