I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering ...

The number of people who killed themselves in Japan fell to 20,268 in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of decline and the second-lowest level after 20,169 in 2019, the health ministry said ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law fiasco could spell his political doom. Yoon's move to impose martial law earlier this week for the first time since 1980 was swatted down by angry ...

South Korea and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to "deepen and accelerate collaboration in the peaceful nuclear energy sector". Several memorandums of understanding were signed during a meeting ...

The upper and lower reservoirs of the Čierny Váh pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant are connected by several underground tunnels and galleries. In one of them there is a unique inclined elevator ...

The spring of 1980 saw president Jimmy Carter foundering as he attempted to convince the citizens of the world that his human rights rhetoric did not conflict with his ever more aggressive foreign ...

The United States opposed potential counter-coup moves within South Korea's military in early 1980 aimed at reversing then Army Gen. Chun Doo-hwan's seizing of power from an earlier coup, declassified ...

Tense new stills have been released for “Youth of May”! The KBS romance drama is about medical student Hwang Hee Tae (Lee Do Hyun) and nurse Kim Myung Hee (Go Min Si), who fall in love amidst the ...

KBS 2TV’s upcoming drama “Youth of May” (literal translation) has confirmed its lead cast! The series is set to highlight the passion that underlies the group of young adults living through May 1980, ...

Classics by Mozart and Tchaikovsky will be presented by Vietnamese violinist Tran Huu Quoc, who will play alongside his guests from the Republic of Korea, conductor Kim Joon Cha and pianist Cho Eun ...