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Spending winter in Korea? Here are 8 places to visit

Tarra Quismundo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 12:29 PM

With Filipinos’ fascination with Korean pop culture, more affordable travel packages, the excitement for snow, and the country’s relative proximity to the east Asian destination, there has been an uptrend in Philippine tourists coming to South Korea during winter. Read more »

Filipinos warming up to Korean winter

Tarra Quismundo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 15 11:02 AM

An increasing number of Filipinos are traveling to South Korea to experience winter given the relatively more affordable tour packages.  Read more »

Peaceful Korea

South Korean Defense Ministry/AFP Photo
Posted at Dec 13 12:31 AM

This handout photo taken on Wednesday, December 12, and provided by South Korean Defense Ministry shows a South Korean soldier (right) shaking hands with a North Korean soldier (left) before crossing the Military Demarcation Line to inspect the dismantled North Korean guard post inside the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon.  Read more »

S. Korea cab driver sets self ablaze in carpool protest

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 06:11 PM

SEOUL - A South Korean taxi driver burned himself to death on Monday in protest at an Uber-like ride-sharing service being introduced by the country's largest mobile chat app, reports said. Read more »

Cash for kids: S. Korea seeks to raise falling birthrate

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 07 06:35 PM

The population of the world's 11th largest economy, currently 51 million, is expected to start falling in 2028. Read more »

Growing split in Seoul over North Korea threatens detente, nuclear talks

Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Dec 06 11:03 AM

When Seoul was preparing to open a liaison office in the North Korean city of Kaesong this summer after a decade of virtually no contact with its longtime enemy, South Korean officials had heated debates over whether they should seek approval from Washington. Read more »

S.Korea's Moon still hopes to host Kim this year

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 04 11:19 AM

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could still visit Seoul for the first time in the next few weeks, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday, describing the possible trip as a major boost in efforts to make the peninsula nuclear-free. Read more »

North Korean soldier defects to South Korea, South's military says

Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 11:00 AM

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, but there were no unusual movements by North Korea's military in response. Read more »

Two Koreas start landmark journey for railway reconnection

Park Chan-kyong, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 30 01:04 PM

It marked the first time in a decade that a train from the South entered North Korea. Read more »

North, South Korea win heritage status with joint wrestling bid: UNESCO

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 06:37 PM

The bid was approved by UNESCO's committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at a meeting in Mauritius. Read more »

South Korea secures UN sanctions exemption for inter-Korean rail survey

Reuters
Posted at Nov 24 09:58 AM

SEOUL - South Korea said on Saturday it had received sanctions exemptions from the UN Security Council for a joint survey with North Korea on inter-Korean rail.   Read more »

Samsung apologizes for cancer cases in semiconductor factories

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 23 04:27 PM

Campaign groups say that about 240 people have suffered from work-related illnesses after working at Samsung semiconductor and display factories, with around 80 of them dying. Read more »

Video ng Amerikanong kumakanta ng mga awiting Pinoy, nag-viral

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 22 08:59 PM

Viral sa social media ang video ng isang Amerikano na kumakanta ng mga awiting Pinoy sa South Korea.    Read more »

South Korea closes biggest dog slaughterhouse complex

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 22 06:03 PM

About one million dogs are eaten a year in South Korea, often as a summertime delicacy with the greasy red meat believed to increase energy. Read more »

South Korea to take back garbage shipment

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 22 10:33 AM

MANILA - The South Korean government is starting legal measures to bring back around 5,100 tons of waste that were dumped in Misamis Oriental, south of the Philippines. Read more »

Kim Jong Who? South Korea revamps the way students study North Korea

Joyce Lee and Jeongmin Kim, Reuters
Posted at Nov 22 07:36 AM

A year of warming relations between North and South Korea has raised the prospects of closer ties, if not some form of unification for the still-warring neighbours far in the future. But it might not be obvious in a typical South Korean classroom. Read more »

Interpol picks South Korean as president as Russia loses out

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 07:55 PM

Interpol named South Korea's Kim Jong-yang as its new president on Wednesday, in a blow to Russia which denounced "unprecedented pressure" against its own candidate to lead the global policing body.   Read more »

S. Korea to close Japan-funded 'comfort women' foundation

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 12:56 PM

South Korea on Wednesday announced the formal shutdown of a controversial Japanese-funded foundation created to help former wartime sex slaves  Read more »

North Korea blows up frontline bunkers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 20 07:08 PM

Pyongyang blew up 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone Tuesday as the two Koreas pursue a reconciliation drive, even while denuclearization talks stall between the US and the North. Read more »

South Korean coop to build farm equipment assembly plant in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 20 05:50 PM

MANILA - A South Korean cooperative has committed to establish an assembly plant for tractors, harvesters, planters and farming accessories in the Philippines next year, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said Tuesday. Read more »