Author: Seoul Reporter

KABUL, Afghanistan — A robust, 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan earlier than daybreak Monday, killing no less than 20 folks and injuring greater than 300 others, a well being official mentioned.The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the quake’s epicenter was situated 22 kilometers west-southwest of the city of Khulm, and that it struck at 12:59 a.m. at a depth of 28 kilometers.Sharafat Zaman, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Well being, mentioned the quake killed no less than 20 folks and injured 320 others.Yousaf Hammad, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s catastrophe administration company, mentioned many of the injured suffered minor…

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a courtroom listening to on martial law-related fees on the Seoul Central District Court docket in southern Seoul, Sept. 26. Yonhap Former President Yoon Suk Yeol attended his riot trial Monday, his second look since final week after being absent from the proceedings for 4 months.The ousted president is being tried on fees of main an riot and abusing his energy by way of his failed imposition of martial regulation in December final yr.Yoon had not appeared at his trial since he was positioned underneath arrest for a second time in July, citing well…

Cho Gab-je, a conservative Korean commentator. (nonetheless from Cho’s YouTube channel) Is it recreation over for Korea’s election deniers? That’s the evaluation of veteran conservative commentator Cho Gab-je after final week’s Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. “The Gyeongju APEC summit was the ultimate nail within the coffin for election fraud conspiracy theorists,” Cho mentioned in a Fb put up on Saturday. “Upon his arrival, it was clear that Trump was not going to pay any thoughts to the riffraff that thought he was going to rescue former President Yoon Suk-yeol from jail, or heed theories that China rigged the…

TEL AVIV — For nearly twenty years, Turkey has cultivated a relationship with Hamas, to the chagrin of another international locations within the area, however gained effusive reward from President Donald Trump in current weeks for utilizing these connections to assist stress the Palestinian militant group into reaching a Gaza ceasefire take care of Israel.

This yr’s 10-Minute Play Pageant is seeking to differentiate itself from its 11 predecessors.The theatrical occasion, a mainstay of the English language theater scene in Seoul, returns this month, though with some departures from earlier years. This yr, the competition acquired a report variety of scripts from around the globe when it started its open name. “We had a excessive of 395 performs submitted in 2019. This yr we had over 500 performs within the first two weeks,” Lorne Oliver, who’s each producing and appearing within the competition, informed The Korea Instances. “We needed to shut down submissions on condition…

Dongwon F&B is ramping up efforts for international enlargement with the launch of Boseong Hongcha hallabong iced tea — the agency’s new strategic mannequin impressed by Korean conventional tradition, the corporate mentioned Monday.The product is the primary new iced tea launched by Dongwon in practically two years. The Boseong Hongcha iced tea lineups reinterpret tea leaves from Boseong — as soon as introduced as royal tribute throughout the Joseon Dynasty — by mixing conventional tea flavors with the trendy zero-calorie development.In line with knowledge from NielsenIQ, a shopper market analysis agency, the lineup maintained its prime spot within the native…

Since Russia discovered itself forged out of the Western cultural and sporting sphere following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has tried in earnest to create one thing of a “parallel world” of occasions and establishments that might act as substitutes.After launching the battle in opposition to its neighbor in 2022, Russia was banned from taking part within the Olympic Video games, a contest during which it had historically fared effectively, though its success was typically accompanied by numerous doping scandals. It was additionally barred from extra light-hearted cultural occasions, such because the Eurovision Tune Contest.Russia has sought to show…

Korea’s tax authorities mentioned Monday they’ve launched an investigation right into a home department of the Cambodia-based Prince Group, which is now suspected of working a worldwide rip-off community.The Nationwide Tax Service (NTS) started the investigation into the workplace, positioned in central Seoul, following a governmentwide evaluate of Korean nationals allegedly concerned in on-line scams run by prison organizations, together with Prince Group. The group has confronted worldwide sanctions over its involvement in kidnapping, torture and homicide.In keeping with the NTS, the group allegedly arrange abroad actual property consulting companies in main industrial areas of Seoul, hiring native workers whereas…

US President Donald Trump speaks on the APEC CEO summit held on the Gyeongju Arts Heart in North Gyeongsang Province on Oct. 29, 2025. (pool picture) US President Donald Trump has promised to permit South Korea to construct nuclear-powered submarines, which he says will probably be constructed at Pennsylvania’s Hanwha Philly Shipyard. He additionally stated that Korean companies’ funding within the US will exceed US$600 billion, or round 854 trillion received.“Our Navy Alliance is stronger than ever earlier than and, based mostly on that, I’ve given them approval to construct a Nuclear Powered Submarine, reasonably than the old school, and…

Some orcas have a style for liver — particularly, the livers of nice white sharks. Movies taken by scientists in Mexico reveal how the artful whales handle to snag bites of the apex predators’ fatty organs. Researchers filmed two orca hunts within the Gulf of California — one in 2020 and one other in 2022. They present the pods attacking younger nice white sharks by flipping them on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open to extract their livers. The crew printed the findings of their video research within the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday.…