Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Yoon Suk Yeol

Koreans about to become one year younger

SEOUL: South Korean lawmakers have approved a measure that would revise the way the country tallies a person’s age, ending a system that counted newborns as a year old and meaning that most of its citizens are about to get younger.

Bangkok Post

South Korea widens back-to-work orders on striking truckers

South Korea’s government has expanded its back-to-work orders against thousands of cargo truck drivers who are staging a nationwide walkout over freight fare issues

The Independent UK

S. Korea sees easing disruption as truckers' strike extends

Officials say South Korea’s economy is recovering from the initial shock of a nationwide walkout staged by thousands of cargo truckers, even as their strike reached its 14th day on Wednesday amid a stalemate with the government over freight fare issues

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers, government orders them back to work

Thousands of demonstrators representing organised labour groups march in Seoul, denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work.

ABC News

Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

WEKU

Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers

Thousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea’s capital on Saturday to denounce government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight

The Independent UK

Seoul arrests ex-top security official over border killing

South Korean prosecutors arrested the country’s former national security director over suspicions he engaged in a cover-up to hide details and distort the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

South Korea orders striking cement truckers back to work

South Korea’s government has ordered some of the thousands of truck drivers who have been on strike to return to work, insisting that their nationwide walkout over freight fare issues is hurting an already weak economy

The Independent UK

South Korea's Yoon looks to boost arms exports, develop defence tech

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol pledged on Thursday to step up efforts to boost weapons exports and secure cutting-edge defence technologies as he aims to build the country's weapons industry into the world's fourth-largest arms exporter.

Reuters

Kim's sister makes insulting threats to Seoul over sanctions

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made insult-laden threats against South Korea for considering unliteral sanctions on the North

The Independent UK

Elon Musk: South Korea Among Top Candidates For EV Investment

According to recent media reports, one of the next Tesla gigafactories might be built in Asia and South Korea has a big chance to attract investment.

InsideEVs

North Korea fires suspected ICBM after warning US on exercises

North Korea test-fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile with an estimated range long enough to carry a warhead to the American mainland, prompting the U.S. to condemn what it said was an unlawful action.

Tribune News Service

North Korea test-fires ballistic missile with range to strike US mainland

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters on Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the US mainland.

France 24

S. Korea's leader discusses megaprojects with Saudi prince

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hopes for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including on its $500 billion futuristic desert city project

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

France 24

North Korea fires ballistic missile after threatening 'fiercer' response to US, allies

North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the U.S. bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan.

The Independent UK

S Korean leader urges China's Xi to play larger N Korea role

Officials say South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol asked China to play a more active, constructive role in curbing the nuclear threat from North Korea when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia

The Independent UK

Leaders quietly work to ramp up pressure on N. Korea at G-20

With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders of the world’s biggest economies — war, famine, poverty, to name just a few — there’s been little public discussion of North Korea and its pursuit of nuclear-armed missiles

The Independent UK

S Korea, Japan seek better ties amid NKorea missile tensions

The leaders of South Korea and Japan have agreed to keep up efforts to resolve their historical disputes as they’re pushing to bolster security cooperation with the United States to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, Japan, SKorea Vow Unified Response to NKorea Threat

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea on Sunday vowed a unified, coordinated response to North Korea's threatening nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Biden met separately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol before all three sat down together…

Tribune News Service

Biden to tell Xi to help rein in N. Korea or face more drills in region

President Joe Biden will warn Chinese leader Xi Jinping of an expanded U.S. military presence in the region if Beijing doesn’t help rein in North Korean military provocations, according to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

The Independent UK

S Korea leader criticized for banning broadcaster from plane

Journalist organizations say South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attacked press freedoms when his office banned a TV broadcaster’s crew from the press pool traveling on his presidential plane this week for allegedly biased reporting

The Independent UK

Dogs gifted by Kim Jong Un at center of South Korean row

A pair of dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018 are now marred in a South Korean political row, with the country’s former president blaming his conservative successor for a lack of support as he gave the animals up

Tribune News Service

News briefs

If control of the House is close, Jan. 3 could be chaos

Tribune News Service

South Korea’s Yoon apologizes over crowd deaths as criticism grows

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued an apology to the nation over a deadly pre-Halloween crowd crush, with members of his government facing criticism over management of the incident that killed at least 156 people.

The Independent UK

S Korea miners lived on coffee, water while trapped in shaft

Two South Korean miners who were rescued after being trapped underground for nine days say they survived on instant coffee powder and water falling from the ceiling of a collapsed shaft

1 … 43 44 45 46

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.