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Song Joong-ki to make drama comeback in 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 20 09:55 PM

South Korean actor Song Joong-ki is confirmed to make his drama comeback after the success of his latest drama "Vincenzo." Read more »

South Korea considers vaccinating workers at major companies: media reports

Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 08:59 AM

South Korea is considering plans to vaccinate workers at key businesses including chip and electronics firms to prevent disruptions to production, the Maeil Business Newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing government and industry sources. Read more »

BTS boss enters Forbes list of Korea's richest

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 02 06:28 PM

Bang Si-hyuk, founder of the entertainment company that created and produces pop sensation BTS, has entered business magazine Forbes' list of the richest people in South Korea. Read more »

How Korean actor Song Kang chooses projects

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 10 12:16 AM

‘Love Alarm’ star Song Kang believes he has more to show as an actor. Read more »

K-pop: SHINee releases music video for latest single 'Don't Call Me'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 23 02:54 PM

SHINee releases music video for new song 'Don't Call Me' Read more »

S. Korean former 'comfort woman' asks gov't to bring issue to International Court of Justice

Kyodo News
Posted at Feb 16 05:51 PM

A South Korean woman who was forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels made an appeal to her government on Tuesday, urging it to bring the issue to the International Court of Justice so that the two countries could reach a "complete settlement" and improve ties. Read more »

IMF recommends more fiscal aid, monetary easing for S. Korea

Reuters
Posted at Jan 28 09:51 AM

South Korea may need more fiscal aid and monetary easing to support a faster economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission said on Thursday. Read more »

BTS hit Dynamite on Beijing radio brings hope of further thaw in China-S. Korea relations

Tamar Herman, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Dec 23 03:46 PM

A long time coming, Metro Radio’s first playing of Dynamite, the new single from K-pop supergroup BTS, is taken as a sign of Sino-Korean cultural thaw. An academic based in China, meanwhile, noted that popular interest there in Korean pop music and dramas has never dimmed despite the countries’ frosty relations. Read more »

Duterte lauds outgoing South Korea envoy

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 01:17 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte hailed the "excellent" work of South Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Han Dong-man in boosting the ties of Seoul and Manila during the latter's farewell call, the Filipino leader's office said Friday.  Read more »

Outgoing South Korean ambassador makes farewell call on Duterte at Malacañang

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 10 11:21 PM

South Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Han Dong-man Thursday made his farewell call on President Duterte at Malacañang. Han is set to retire. Read more »

The face-mask seat: a S. Korean student's attempt to recycle during COVID-19

Minwoo Park, Reuters
Posted at Dec 10 02:08 PM

"Plastic is recyclable, so why don't we recycle face masks, which are made of plastic?" Read more »

#BoycottSM: Why are K-pop fans calling out SM Entertainment?

Choi Ha Rin, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Nov 25 04:17 PM

SM Entertainment, the South Korean agency behind star K-pop groups Exo, NCT, Shinee, Super Junior and Girls’ Generation faces calls for a boycott from fans over its low pay to artists and links to China’s controversial iFlyTek tech company. Read more »

South Korea's SK Hynix to buy Intel's NAND business for $9 billion

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 20 12:06 PM

Intel Corp has agreed to sell its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix Inc for $9 billion in an all-cash deal that would propel the South Korean chipmaker to second in the global rankings. Read more »

S. Korea concludes slain fisheries official tried to defect to North

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 29 04:16 PM

South Korea's coast guard said Tuesday it has concluded that a South Korean fisheries official who was shot to death at sea last week by North Korean troops likely tried to defect to North Korea. Read more »

N. Korea warns of naval tensions during search for slain S. Korean

Josh Smith, Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 09:35 AM

North Korea said it was searching for the body a South Korean man killed by its troops, but warned that South Korean naval operations in the area threatened to raise tensions, state media reported on Sunday.   Read more »

S.Korea suggests joint probe with N.Korea on shooting of S.Korean official

Hyunjoo Jin, Reuters
Posted at Sep 26 03:09 PM

SEOUL— South Korea urged North Korea on Saturday to further investigate the fatal shooting of a South Korean fisheries official and suggested it could be a joint probe by the two sides, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.   Read more »

$2.1-billion Asiana Airlines takeover collapses

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 11 05:59 PM

The global travel restrictions imposed to try to control the virus have wreaked havoc on the airline industry, but Asiana was in trouble even before it struck.   Read more »

BTS hit 'Dynamite' worth $1.4 billion to South Korea: gov't

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 07 05:16 PM

K-pop sensation BTS's US-chart-topping single "Dynamite" could generate more than $1.4 billion for the South Korean economy and thousands of new jobs in the country, a government study claimed Monday. Read more »

WATCH: Ben&Ben covers K-pop songs anew in latest vlog

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 03 12:51 PM

Filipino indie folk band Ben&Ben have released a new collection of K-pop covers, which include songs by top acts BTS and IU. Read more »

Re-exportation of remaining trash from S. Korea to be completed this week: official

Angelo Andrade, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 04 08:35 PM

MISAMIS ORIENTAL - Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Port Collector John Simon of the Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao assured that the re-exportation of South Korean trash dumped in Misamis Oriental will be completed this week. Read more »