A South Korean court ordered the government to compensate a Vietnamese woman who was wounded by South Korean troops during the Vietnam War, in a test case that could pave the way for similar lawsuits, the Associated Press reported. The case concerns 62-year-old Nguyen Thi Thanh,...
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South Korea will change its age-counting system next year, putting an end to the traditional system in which a person is older by a year or two, NPR reported. Parliament passed a set of bills this week that will require the use of the international age-counting...
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South Korea’s former president and his successor are at war in a custody battle over two former “peace puppies” gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The two canines, named Songgang and Gomi, were given to then-President Moon...
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More than 90 percent of smartphone users in South Korea use the Kakao suite of apps to do everything from instant messaging and banking to watching videos and locating nearby beauty salons. When a data center fire recently caused the apps to crash for a...
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Halloween celebrations in South Korea turned deadly after a stampede over the weekend killed at least 153 people in one of the worst disasters in the country in years, CBS News reported. The incident happened Saturday night in the capital Seoul’s leisure district of Itaewon –...
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Dozens of South Korean adoptees who were sent to Danish parents in the 1970s and 1980s demanded the South Korean government investigate their adoptions, saying their adoptions were part of shady practices that falsified or obscured their origins, the Associated Press reported. The case is related...
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South Korea’s incoming president is proposing to abolish a centuries-old method of counting a person’s age, a move that could have a significant impact on the country’s society and culture, the BBC reported. There are three ways to count the age of an individual in South...
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More than 70 percent of South Koreans favor their country deploying nuclear weapons. They believe that the weapons of mass destruction might be their best defense against Chinese or North Korean aggression, according to a Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey. The poll came as South...
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South Korean firefighters and troops battled a large wildfire over the weekend that tore through the country’s eastern coastal area, forcing thousands to evacuate and threatening two energy facilities in the region, the Associated Press reported. The fire began Friday morning near the seaside town of...
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