Premier League-bound teen sensation Yang Min-hyeok was named to the South Korean men’s national team for upcoming World Cup qualifying matches on Monday. Head coach Hong Myung-bo put Yang, the 18-year-old forward for Gangwon FC, on his 26-man squad for two World Cup qualifying matches scheduled for next month. To kick off Group B action in the third round of

The proportion of job positions taken by senior citizens reached an all-time high this year amid rapid aging, data showed Monday. The average number of the employed per month stood at 28.51 million during the January-July period, and those aged 60 and older accounted for 22.4 percent, or 6.39 million, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. This year’s

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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

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 …

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 …

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…