A Seoul court will hold a hearing next month to decide whether to grant bail to popera singer Kim Ho-joong arrested on charges of driving his car across a centerline into a stationary taxi under the influence of alcohol and fleeing, judicial officials said Monday. The Seoul Central District Court will hold the hearing on Sept. 30, the sources said.

Health authorities said Monday they have secured COVID-19 treatments for 177,000 patients, stepping up efforts for a stable supply of pills as the summer wave is expected to peak this week. “Since Aug. 15, a total of 262,000 doses of COVID-19 treatments have been supplied in phases,” said Son Young-rae, a senior official from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention

The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) accused the Yoon Suk Yeol administration on Monday of engaging in “submissive” diplomacy with Japan by appointing pro-Japan figures to key positions and removing public installations depicting the easternmost islets of Dokdo. “Since the start of the Yoon Suk Yeol administration, we have seen continued pro-Japan submissive diplomacy and a desperation to erase history,”

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) expressed skepticism Monday over North Korea’s ability to supply missiles to the hundreds of new launchers it plans to deploy to the front lines, lawmakers said. Earlier this month, North Korea reported that its leader Kim Jong-un attended a ceremony to mark the transfer of new tactical missile launchers to front-line units, describing them as

South Korea and the United States began a joint live-fire aerial exercise Monday, the South Korean Air Force said, in the latest move to reinforce capabilities to counter North Korean threats. The three-day exercise got under way earlier in the day over waters off South Korea’s western coast, mobilizing some 60 military planes, including South Korea’s F-35A, F-15K and KF-16

Rising star Go Min-si revels in portraying roles that are markedly different from her real-life self. In her latest Netflix original Korean series, “The Frog,” which she calls her favorite show to date, she exemplifies this talent. “I want to be the kind of actor who makes audiences look forward to her next project,” she said in an interview with

The antitrust regulator said Monday that it is looking into e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. regarding allegations that it has unfairly bundled its food delivery service and music streaming platform while raising membership fees. The company was accused of providing the Coupang Eats and Coupang Play services with its paid Wow membership without additional charges, in violation of the fair transaction

1980 — Chun Doo-hwan, a former army general, is named president by a hand-picked electoral college. Chun seized power in an internal military coup on Dec. 12 of the previous year, in which he arrested then martial law commander Gen. Chung Seung-hwa. 1992 — China opens its embassy in Seoul. The two countries established formal diplomatic ties on Aug. 24