Park requests China play ‘constructive role’ in leading NK to dialogue, Wang stresses domestic affairs should not be interfered

South Korean parliament’s speaker Kim Jin-pyo will meet with Bill Gates next week to discuss COVID-19, future threats of pandemics and the importance of international cooperation in responding to them. The parliament office on Tuesday said the meeting between the speaker and the Microsoft founder is scheduled to take place on Aug. 16 for about 40 minutes. Following the meeting Gates will delive...

South Korea may experience the third rainband in before autumn

Lying low near the Han River, Seoul’s affluent neighborhoods are geologically vulnerable and plans to beef up drainage are moving slow

With the education minister offering her resignation, the controversial plan to lower the school entry age to 5 could be shelved, nearly 10 days after it was first introduced. The Education Ministry on Tuesday apologized for a lack of communication concerning the previous report to the president, which proposed the system reform, saying it caused confusion. “It has become realistically difficu...

Giving a toast at the celebration ceremony, Africa-Korea Foundation President Lyeo Woon-ki hoped for strengthened and dynamic future of Korea-Ivory Coast relations in next decade as epoch. “In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change,” he said, referring to a Korean proverb.

Hundreds of thousands of commuters on Tuesday trudged through Seoul’s battered roads and public transit pummeled by record-breaking downpour. According to the Seoul metropolitan office, some of the roads along the Han River that cut across the middle of the capital had to be closed for several hours this morning for safety. “Water still covers roads in many places, and they are just not passabl...

Seoul and surrounding areas expected to see up to 300 millimeters of more rain through Thursday

Meanwhile, Choi Jung-uk, the general director for Latin American and Caribbean affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also delivered remarks, highlighting Bolivia’s significance to Korea. Choi underlined Bolivia as one the four major Latin American partners of development cooperation for sustainable development. “Korea is trying to take a step closer to Bolivia through Korean culture such ...

N. Korea’s Lazarus Group exploited Tornado Cash to launder over $455 million from largest-ever crypto heist

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Tuesday morning visited an apartment complex in Sadang-dong in Seoul to survey the area, after torrential rain hit Seoul and the surrounding areas from late Monday into the next morning. As part of the city’s emergency response, Oh inspected the embankment installed in the Kukdong Apartment complex that collapsed due to a landslide, according to the Seoul city governmen...

President Yoon Suk-yeol is facing backlash for responding to the heavy rain that pounded Seoul from his apartment on Monday after leaving his office earlier that afternoon. Yoon, who became the country’s first commuting president by refusing to move into Cheong Wa Dae, was working from home as the rainfall ravaged Seoul before he showed up at the national emergency headquarters at around 9:30 a....

A video of a person swimming on flooded roads spread online, drawing fire from internet users as heaviest downpour in 80 years struck throughout Seoul metropolitan region. A video titled “Sillim-dong Phelps” -- the title alludes to the US swimming great Michael Phelps -- was posted on online Monday. The six-second-long video showed a person wearing a red swimsuit, purple swimming cap and flippe...

According to the neighbors, the victims appeared to have been trapped as water kept on flowing down to the basement due to a big puddle created at the entry of the multiplex housing unit. The three victims were living with the sisters’ mother who was not home at the time of the accident. The older sister reportedly had developmental disability. “Residents tore off the windows and struggled to s...

The Justice Ministry on Tuesday reviewed candidates for presidential pardons to be granted on the occasion of next week's Liberation Day amid attention as to whether Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong and former President Lee Myung-bak will be among the beneficiaries. The ministry's nine-member pardon review board held a meeting to evaluate candidates, including several high-profile business moguls and p...