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A veteran South Korean stage star, Nam Kyung-ju, has been forwarded to prosecutors on charges of rape by force after a police investigation into a sexual assault allegation, police said. The alleged incident is said to have occurred in Seoul late last year, when a woman reported to emergency services

South Korea’s broadcasting and communications regulator is weighing the creation of a new national institute aimed at promoting broadcasting, media, and communications. The proposal would place a Korea Broadcasting Media and Communications Promotion Institute under the Commission on Broadcasting, Media and Communications (the 방미통위) and would dissolve two existing

Cloudy skies brought scattered rain across much of South Korea today. The northeastern mountains and the East Sea coast are forecast to see rain or snow through tomorrow. Ulleungdo and Dokdo, the islets in the East Sea, remain under a blizzard advisory with up to 8 centimeters of snow expected.

An investigation into last year’s data breach at Lotte Card has found that sensitive information was exposed after the company failed to properly encrypt logs from its online payment system. The breach, disclosed in August, affected about 2.97 million cardholders, with card numbers and expiration dates leaked, according

NCSoft has unveiled a strategy to lift annual sales to 5 trillion won and achieve an return on equity of 15% by 2030, centering on upgrading its legacy IP and securing new intellectual property. Co-CEO Park Byung-mu outlined the plan at the company’s management strategy briefing on the 12th,

Spring-like conditions are expected to take hold, with a pattern of alternating moving high-pressure systems and low-pressure systems across the Korean Peninsula. The Korea Meteorological Administration says that as winter's cold continental air weakens, Korea will regularly feel the influence of a detached moving high or an approaching

Iranian women’s football players competing in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup faced a volatile mix of sport and politics during the tournament in Australia. In their opening group-stage match on the Gold Coast, some players wore hijabs and white kit, and they did not sing the national anthem,

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takai said on March 12 that she does not intend to dismiss Matsumoto Yohei, the minister in charge of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), despite a scandal involving an extramarital affair. Her remarks came during a session of the House of

The Iran–Israel conflict intensified on the 12th local time, as the war now in its second week saw renewed cross‑regional fire. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, working with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, said they conducted a five-hour joint operation that struck more than 50 targets across Israel, using

Seoul opened a new museum dedicated to new media, the SeoSeoul Museum of Art, on the 12th beside the Geumcheon District Office in southwestern Seoul. It is billed as Seoul’s first museum focused specifically on new media, with a remit that includes exhibitions, education, and research in this field.