The Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union has announced that it will start a simultaneous strike at 61 large hospitals across the country on Thursday. The union represents nurses, their assistants and medical technicians.

It decided to enter a ge…

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 official…

Jaehyun of K-pop supergroup NCT will make his debut as a solo artist with an album titled “J” on Monday, his agency said.

The first individual album from Jaehyun will feature eight tracks, including both Korean and English versions of the lead singl…

Ongoing government audits into the national governing bodies for football and badminton over recent controversy will conclude sometime in September, the sports minister said Monday.

Yu In-chon, minister of culture, sports and tourism, made the remar…

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a performance test of various drones, calling for the development and production of more suicide drones to enhance war preparedness, state media reported Monday. Kim supervised the test organized by the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defence Sciences on Saturday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). In the test, the

Bhc chicken, South Korea’s largest chicken franchise by sales, opened its seventh outlet in Malaysia on Monday as part of its overseas expansion strategy. The seventh store is located at the Elmina Lakeside Mall near the Southeast Asian country’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur, the company said in a statement. With the opening of Malaysia’s latest outlet, the chicken franchise

A new book has been published to chronicle the three-decade journey of a North Korean defector who crossed borders and built new lives in search of a better future, its publisher said Monday. Written by Yonhap News Agency reporter Kim Jae-hong, the book, the title of which is translated as “32 Years as Defector: From Crossing Tumen River to Sydney,”