SEOUL, Feb. 6 (UPI) — In an effort to help South Korea revive its ultra-low fertility rate, a Seoul construction company announced it will begin offering a $75,000 bonus to employees each time they have a new baby. Seoul-based builder Booyoung held an event Monday, where it awarded a total of $5.25 million for 70 babies…
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed in front of hundreds of students at an outdoor stadium. It also shows uniformed officers reprimanding the…
North Korea launched over 200 rounds of artillery shells off its west coast toward South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island between 09:00 to 11:00 local time, said Seoul’s military, the BBC reports. South Korea responded by ordering civilians on the island to seek shelter and conducting live-fire drills as a countermeasure. Yeonpyeong island, home to a military…
South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck during a visit to the city of Busan. Mr Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election, sustained a 1cm laceration on the left side of his neck, reports said. He was airlifted to hospital. Doctors say the wound is not life-threatening. The…
Dec. 14 (UPI) — South Korea scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after Chinese and Russian military aircraft flew into its air defense identification zone, Seoul’s military said. Two Chinese and four Russian aircraft entered and departed South Korea’s air defense identification zone, known as KADIZ, in the East Sea from 11:53 to 12:10 p.m., the Joint…
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (UPI) — South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace said Monday it has signed a $2.6 billion deal to deliver 152 K9 self-propelled howitzers to Poland by 2027. Under the contract, the firm will also provide Poland’s Armaments Agency with 155mm artillery ammunition and logistics support for the K9 howitzers. The Seoul-based company plans to work…
SEOUL, Oct 16 (Reuters) – South Korean authorities cited the risk of Chinese economic retaliation when they charged marine technology firm SI Innotec last year with violating trade laws for its work on Taiwan’s new military submarine program, according to a police document seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter. In a…
SEOUL, July 17 (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday blamed authorities’ failure to follow disaster response rules as the death toll from days of torrential rain rose to 40, including a dozen people found dead in a submerged underpass. Deluges have pummelled central and southern regions since Thursday as the rainy…
The data breach allegedly cost Samsung $230 million. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol recently declared the chip manufacturing industry to be in an “all-out war,” and the latest developments certainly support that statement. Prosecutors in the Suwon District have indicted a former Samsung executive for allegedly stealing semiconductor plant blueprints and technology from the…
A missile launched by North Korea caused alarm and panic in Japan before the weapon fell into the sea. North Korea launched the missile between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korean officials said, calling it a “grave provocation”. A South Korean military official said the test apparently involved a new weapons system displayed at…