A government-chartered bus carried Korean nationals out of Iran and toward Turkmenistan, with a stop that shifted the onward leg from Tehran to Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. The move occurred on the 11th, according to Korean officials. Yonhap News reports that three people evacuated to Turkmenistan on this latest

President Donald Trump has called on five countries, including South Korea, to send warships to the Hormuz Strait to keep the crucial waterway open and safe. In a post on Truth Social, he said that nations affected by Iran’s attempts to block the strait would be “will be sending

A market research firm, AVC Revo, expects global monitor OLED shipments to rise to about 5.4 million this year, up from roughly 3.3 million last year, pushing OLED’s share of the overall monitor panel market to about 3 percent from 2 percent. The projection comes from AVC

Hyundai Heavy Industries said on the 13th that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Eco Prime Marine Pacific, the largest shareholder of HHI’s parent group, to discuss the asset transfer related to its Gunsan shipyard. The parties stressed that a final contract would follow thorough due diligence. The

Korea will be largely cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with scattered light rain possible along the central western coast through tomorrow morning. Inland areas, including the Gangwon region’s mountains, may see brief showers in the afternoon. Air quality is expected to worsen, with PM2.5 levels deemed unhealthy in the

A man in his 40s stabbed a woman in her 20s on a street in Namyangju, a city in Gyeonggi Province near Seoul, before fleeing the scene. He was arrested about an hour later in a rural area of Yangpyeong County, in a separate part of the province. Police say

South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in what was described as a surprise encounter, lasting about 20 minutes and centered on North Korea. Kim said he had first met with a pastor from the White House faith-based initiatives

A man identified as A was handed over to prosecutors by the Seoul Gangseo Police Station without detention in late January, accused of violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for posting explicit comments online that referenced the real name of the head of the Reformist New Party, Lee Jun-seok. The

A Korean woman in her 60s died after receiving stem cell therapy at a Tokyo clinic linked to a cross-border program run by Korean and Japanese partners, the scientists and officials said. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) issued an emergency temporary suspension of regenerative medicine treatment

South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met in Washington with U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance at the White House on the 12th local time to push for faster implementation of the results from Korea–U.S. negotiations, including the plan to procure nuclear-powered submarines and other security-sector