Author: Seoul Reporter

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his spouse, Kim Keon Hee, have been set to seem in court docket Friday of their separate trials, the primary time each have appeared on the identical day since their arrests.Yoon is scheduled to attend one in every of his trials associated to his failed martial legislation imposition in December over his alleged try and hinder his detention by investigators in January and involvement in deleting safe telephone data from servers.Kim, the previous first girl, is standing trial for corruption and different costs, together with her alleged involvement in a inventory manipulation scheme and…

A Coupang supply automobile (Captured from YouTube) The Coupang Good friend Labor Union (Coupang Union), a union of Coupang’s instantly employed supply drivers, claimed on Nov. 7 that the Korean Confederation of Commerce Unions (KCTU)’s push to ban early morning deliveries “seems to be retaliation for the Coupang Union’s withdrawal from the KCTU.” In an announcement launched on at the present time, the Coupang Union argued, “The KCTU speaks as if banning early morning deliveries is totally crucial for staff, however when the Coupang Union was affiliated with the KCTU, they by no means as…

Method, a former member of Crayon Pop, raised considerations about excessive short-term weight-reduction plan within the leisure trade, mentioning singer HyunA and WJSN’s Dayoung as latest examples of dangerous practices.Method uploaded a video titled “Why Ok-pop diets fail + how one can succeed” on her YouTube channel Thursday, the place she mentioned the risks of speedy weight-loss strategies widespread within the trade. “I’ve principally been weight-reduction plan since my teenagers,” she stated. “As a result of I labored in entrance of cameras, I’ve seen each form of weight-reduction plan — successes and failures. The Ok-pop trade incorporates each excessive type…

International funding corporations have pared again holdings in top-performing Korean shares, together with APR Co. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., after their share costs have greater than doubled this yr, driving the benchmark Kospi index up greater than 50% year-to-date.

A runner units off on a 1,200 kilometer relay alongside the nation’s longest path route on Thursday. (KTO) Korea’s most formidable endurance working occasion, the Korea Dulle Path 4500 Race, started Thursday as 18 skilled runners set off on a 1,200 kilometer relay alongside the nation’s longest path route.Organized by the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Group, the race runs by No. 23, tracing the shoreline from Busan’s Oryukdo Dawn Park — the place to begin of each the Haerang-gil and Namparang-gil trails — to the ultimate course of the Sehaerang-gil.Divided into three groups…

The dying of Dick Cheney, who wielded huge energy as U.S. vp, occasioned a wave of commentary and commemorations — with specific curiosity within the destiny of his legacy within the face of fast political change. For many years, Cheney was “the final word GOP insider,” my colleague Karen Tumulty writes, a Washington energy dealer usually caricatured because the shadowy puppet grasp looming over President George W. Bush’s two phrases. However in his last years, he discovered himself and his politics on the opposite facet of a schism with President Donald Trump and the MAGA motion that had captured and…

Land Minister Kim Yun-duk has visited the location of a boiler tower collapse at a thermal energy plant in Ulsan, urging rescuers to make all-out efforts to avoid wasting employees trapped below the particles, his workplace mentioned Friday.The boiler tower collapsed Thursday at an influence plant of the Ulsan department of Korea East-West Energy Co., a state-run utility agency. One employee was killed and one other was feared lifeless among the many seven nonetheless trapped.Kim arrived on the website at round 11 p.m. Thursday to examine ongoing rescue operations, in accordance with the land ministry.”The federal government will present full…

Sweden’s EQT Companions, one among Europe’s largest personal fairness companies, has agreed to accumulate a controlling stake in Douzone Bizon Co., South Korea’s main homegrown enterprise software program agency and the nation’s No. 2 participant within the enterprise useful resource planning (ERP) market, for 1.32 trillion gained ($905 million).The deal marks one of many largest personal fairness takeovers in Korea’s data expertise providers sector this 12 months.Douzone mentioned in a regulatory submitting on Friday that Kim Yong-woo, chairman and founding father of the Kospi-listed firm, signed an settlement to promote his 22.29% stake, or 6.77 million shares, to EQT’s particular…

Revealed: 07 Nov. 2025, 13:41 Up to date: 07 Nov. 2025, 14:01 Violist Park Ha-yang performs Toru Takemitsu’s “A String Round Autumn” in the course of the closing live performance of the Seoul Worldwide Music Pageant on the Seoul Arts Heart on Nov. 6. [EMBASSY OF JAPAN TO KOREA]   The Seoul Worldwide Music Pageant (SIMF) Orchestra, led by Ukrainian-born conductor Kirill Karabits, offered the finale conert of its weeklong competition in collaboration with Japan to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic relations on Thursday night on the Seoul Arts Heart in southern Seoul.    Now…

North Korea and Russia have mentioned methods to strengthen cooperation amongst their military-political organs, state media reported Friday, amid indicators of the North’s deployment of extra troops to help Russia’s battle with Ukraine.Pak Yong-il, vice director of the Basic Political Bureau of the Korean Folks’s Military, held talks with Russian Deputy Protection Minister Viktor Goremykin on Wednesday in Pyongyang, in keeping with the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA).”On the assembly, each side mentioned methods to strengthen cooperation and exchanges between military-political organizations” amid deepening bilateral ties between the 2 nations, in keeping with the report.North Korean Protection Minister No Kwang-chol…