Actress Kang Soo-yeon died Saturday from a cerebral hemorrhage after being rushed to hospital last Thursday with cardiac arrest. She never regained consciousness. Kang, who was 56, became the...

Son Heung-min of Tottenham Hotspur scored his 20th goal of the season in the team's English Premier League match against Liverpool on Saturday, marking the first time he has reached the m...

Son Heung-min of Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in a home match against Leicester City in London on Sunday. With the Spurs leading 1-0 thanks to Harry Kane's opening goal in the 22nd ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has threatened South Korea with a preemptive nuclear strike just four days after he exchanged personal letters with outgoing President Moon Jae-in. Kim made th...

The music video for girl group Blackpink's "Boombayah" has surpassed 1.4 billion views on YouTube. The feat came some five years and eight months after its release in August 2016. Blackpi...

A 140,000-sq.m pedestrianized green space will be created to replace the scruffy urban clusters of Jongno and Toegyero in central Seoul, Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced Thursday. The areas have be...

President Moon Jae-in will leave Cheong Wa Dae on May 9, his last official day as president, the presidential office said last Friday. Moon will attend the inauguration of his successor Yoon ...

The top one percent of Korea's rich owned W2.92 billion in net assets last year, about W310 million more than a year earlier (US$1=W1,230). Those in the top 0.1 percent who are considered...

Son Heung-min of Tottenham Hotspur scored his 15th, 16th and 17th goals of the season on Saturday in a match against Aston Villa. It was his second hat trick in the English Premier League, hi...

Son Na-eun has announced her decision to leave A Pink after spending more than a decade with the girl group. Her departure, which leaves A Pink a quintet, comes just ahead of the group's ...

North Korean hackers have stolen foreign technology to evade intercept defenses against hypersonic missiles, a UN report suggests. The annual report by the UN Security Council's Panel of ...

Superstars Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin tied the knot in Seoul on Thursday. The two, who played a couple in cable channel tvN's mega hit series "Crash Landing on You," got married in real life...

Health experts have warned that a new variant of coronavirus could appear in less than six months as the virus continues to evolve to be more infectious. Kim Woo-joo at Korea University Guro ...

Actor Yoo Yeon-seok will star in cable channel JTBC's new drama series, a source said on Tuesday. The upcoming series, tentatively titled "Understanding of Love," is based on a novel of t...

President-elect Yoon Seok-youl on Sunday said he will move the presidential office out of the palatial Cheong Wa Dae or Blue House to a nondescript government block in downtown Yongsan. Yoon ...

High jumper Woo Sang-hyeok clinched a gold medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships on Sunday, becoming the first Korean to win a world title in any track-and-field event. Woo cleare...

President-elect Yoon Seok-youl became famous for saying at a National Assembly audit in 2013, "I am not loyal to any person." That led to his removal from a prosecution team investigating a m...

Actor Lee Jung-jae has won Best Actor in a Drama Series in the U.S. Critics Choice Awards for his role in Netflix's mega-hit series "Squid Game." The dystopian series also won Best Foreig...

Ko Jin-young won the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore on Sunday, setting a couple of scoring records along the way. It was her 13th career victory on the LPGA Tour, having won...

Actress Shin Min-a is set to appear in cable channel tvN's new drama series "Our Blues" with her boyfriend and actor Kim Woo-bin. The star-studded cast of the series also includes A-liste...