Author: Seoul Reporter

South Korea will pursue neither unification by absorption nor any hostile acts towards North Korea, the vice unification minister mentioned Monday, reaffirming the coverage of President Lee Jae Myung’s authorities of constructing peace on the Korean Peninsula.Vice Unification Minister Kim Nam-jung made the remarks throughout a gathering with residents of border areas at Camp Greaves, a former U.S. navy base-turned-field-trip website within the western border metropolis of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, slightly below the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 Koreas.”To realize a peaceable Korean Peninsula with out the necessity for battle, the Lee Jae Myung authorities will acknowledge and respect the…

Printed: 10 Nov. 2025, 20:30   Busan Superintendent of Schooling Kim Seok-jun and officers from the Busan Metropolitan Workplace of Schooling carry check papers for the 2026 School Scholastic Potential Check (CSAT) at a faculty in Dongnae District, Busan, on Nov. 10, three days earlier than the nationwide examination. The CSAT papers, delivered to native schooling workplaces below police supervision, will likely be distributed to testing websites early on the morning of the examination. [YONHAP]

MANILA — Hurricane Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out energy to complete provinces, killing at the least eight individuals and displacing greater than 1.4 million others.The storm was forecast to move northwest towards Taiwan.Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines whereas the nation was nonetheless coping with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Kalmaegi, which left at the least 224 individuals useless in central provinces on Tuesday earlier than pummeling Vietnam, the place at the least 5 have been killed.Fung-wong slammed ashore in northeastern Aurora province on Sunday evening as an excellent…

The ruling and opposition events agreed Monday to vote later this month on the arrest movement for Rep. Choo Kyung-ho, former flooring chief of the Individuals Energy Social gathering (PPP), over his alleged function in former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s transient martial regulation try.The Nationwide Meeting will obtain the arrest movement for Choo of the primary opposition at Thursday’s plenary session and put it to a vote on Nov. 27, Rep. Moon Jin-seog of the ruling Democratic Social gathering of Korea mentioned after a gathering between the rival events’ flooring leaders.Choo is accused of blocking different PPP lawmakers from collaborating…

Rescue staff observe a second of silence after retrieving the physique of one of many staff trapped within the rubble of a boiler tower that collapsed on the Ulsan department of the Korea East-West Energy Co. on Nov. 6, 2025. (Choi Hyeon-su/Hankyoreh) The rescue operation at a thermal energy plant in Ulsan the place a decommissioned boiler tower collapsed on Thursday got here to an finish on Sunday after retrieving just one extra physique from the rubble. At 11:05 am on Sunday, the physique of a 44-year-old employee surnamed Kim was carried out of the Korea East-West Energy Co.’s Ulsan plant…

In China’s waterway metropolis Hangzhou, Ok-beauty redefines ‘shuiguang’ Jetema, Korean magnificence maker, operates a sales space at MEVOS, China’s largest medical aesthetics gathering, in Could 2025, to showcase its dermal filler, Epitique, or e.p.t.q. HANGZHOU – The capital of China’s Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, is the southern terminus of the traditional Grand

The soundtrack for Netflix’s hit animated movie “Kpop Demon Hunters” remained at No. 2 in its twentieth week on Billboard’s essential albums chart.In keeping with a Billboard preview launched Sunday (U.S. time), the album ranked simply behind world pop star Taylor Swift’s newest studio album, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” on the Billboard 200 for the fifth week in a row.The soundtrack beforehand topped the chart twice earlier than ceding the No. 1 spot to Swift.The Billboard 200 ranks the most well-liked albums of the week in america, measured by equal album items, comprising bodily gross sales, track-equivalent items and…

A survey has discovered greater than half of Korean males of their 30s and 40s are overweight. (Captured from SBS) A survey revealed that one in three Korean adults falls beneath medical standards for weight problems, and greater than half of males of their 30s and 40s are overweight. Whereas the general weight problems charge has elevated almost 1.3 instances over the previous 10 years, high-risk teams are increasing amongst younger males. The Korea Illness Management and Prevention Company (KDCA) introduced on Nov. 10 the outcomes of an in-depth evaluation of grownup weight problems charges…

From left, poet Shin Hae-uk, novelist Lee Ki-ho and playwright Joo Eun-gil pose for a bunch picture throughout a press convention saying the winners of the thirty third Daesan Literary Awards held in Seoul on Monday. (Daesan Basis) Novelist Lee Ki-ho has gained the fiction class on the thirty third Daesan Literary Awards for his novel “The Cheerful, Wrestle-Free Lifetime of Lee Sibong,” the Daesan Basis introduced Monday throughout a press convention at Kyobo Tower in Seoul.The novel follows a younger man named Lee Si-seup and his grieving household, whose lives turn out to be intertwined with their pet, a…

QUITO — Authorities stated not less than 27 inmates had been discovered lifeless by asphyxiation Sunday afternoon at an Ecuadoran jail the place an armed riot left 4 others lifeless and dozens injured within the morning.In an announcement, jail authorities stated the 27 people discovered lifeless on the Machala jail in El Oro province had “amongst themselves dedicated asphyxiation, which precipitated fast loss of life by suspension.”Authorities stated they had been nonetheless working to “totally make clear the details,” and forensic medical personnel had been on web site to confirm info.The lethal day at Machala’s jail marks the most recent…