North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited flood-hit areas near the Amnok River and guided an operation to rescue around 5,000 isolated residents with the military’s helicopters, Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday.

Kim visited flood-ravaged ar…

The issuance of asset-based securities (ABSs) in South Korea dropped sharply from a year earlier in the second quarter due to a sharp decline in those issued by the state-run housing finance company, data showed Monday.

The ABSs issued in the April-…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Ju-ae, is being groomed to succeed her father, though the selection is not final and he could ultimately choose someone else, two lawmakers quoted South Korea’s spy agency as saying Monday.

The National In…

Wat Yang Sutharam, Royal cremation ceremony for Pol. Lt. Col. Kittichanom, who died while on duty to stop a maniac in the Phra Ram 2 area. His superiors and fellow police officers paid their last respects.

On July 29, 2024, there was a royal cremati…

K-pop boy group Stray Kids has claimed its fifth No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart with its latest EP, “Ate.”

The eight-track album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart for this week with 232,000 equivalent album units earned in the Un…

South Korea’s total population rebounded in 2023 after two years of on-year fall on the back of the growing number of foreigners, though the country continued to experience falling birthrates and rapid aging, data showed Monday.

The country’s total …

Competing at an Olympic Games means different things to different athletes. For South Korean golfer An Byeong-hun, the son of two Olympic table tennis medalists, representing the country at the quadrennial event takes on extra significance.

An’s fat…

Chiang Mai, Tragic: 35-year-old man, stressed by problems, kills youngest child and wife before ending his own life. His eldest daughter, aged 11, witnessed the incident and ran away from home to save her life.

Police from Omkoi Police Station, Chia…