South Korea’s presidential office announced that French President Emmanuel Macron will undertake a state visit to Korea on the 2nd and 3rd of next month. It would mark the first state visit by a European leader since President Lee Jae-myung took office, and Macron’s first visit to Korea

Mrs. Kim Hye-kyung, wife of President Lee Jae-myung, attended the opening ceremony of a traditional crafts exhibition organized by the Public Procurement Service. The event on the 13th took place at Culture Station Seoul 284, a prominent multi-arts venue in central Seoul. The exhibition, titled Korean Essence (한국본색), aims to

Egg prices in South Korea are climbing again, driven by a nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza and the resulting decline in laying-hen flocks. As of March 12, the nationwide average price for a 30-egg pack stood at 7,045 won, up from 6,041 won a year earlier.

Smiljan Radic Clarke, a 60-year-old Chilean-born architect of Croatian descent, has won the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize, often described as the “Nobel Prize of architecture.” The prize includes a $100,000 award and a bronze medal, with a fall ceremony to be staged at a location of architectural significance around

A spring weather pattern will persist across South Korea on Saturday, April 14, 2024, with daytime temperatures rising to as high as 15°C but mornings turning sharply colder. The Korea Meteorological Administration forecast a minimum near freezing in places and daytime highs in the low to mid-teens, producing a

Coupang Korea chief executive Harold Rogers visited a nighttime logistics site operated by the company near Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province, checking operations from last night into the early hours of today. The visit became public after photos circulated on an online community showing Rogers inspecting courier bags at the site,

Seoul’s central Bank Hall in Jung-gu hosted the two-day hearing of a special investigative committee in relation to the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, which left 159 people dead. The inquiry, chaired by the Special Investigation Committee for Truth and Prevention of Recurrence, is examining the incident’s causes, the

On the first day of enforcement of South Korea’s three judicial reform laws, two top judges were named as defendants under a newly created offense: law distortion. Chief Justice Cho Hye-dae and Supreme Court Justice Park Young-jae were the first to be targeted under the provision. The charge stems

U.S. defense officials said at a Pentagon briefing on Friday that Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s newly named Supreme Leader, has reportedly sustained injuries that could have left him disfigured. They also cautioned there is no definitive public evidence that Iran has planted mines in the Strait of Hormuz, despite

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on March 12, during the Epic Fury operation tied to the ongoing war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. Central Command said two aircraft were involved in the