Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to visit South Korea
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is planning to visit South Korea and is scheduling key meetings during his trip, Meta said in a statement on Wednesday without elaborating.
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K-defense: South Korea's weapons industry goes global
SEOUL -- First came glitzy, boppy K-pop. Then came soapy, soppy K-drama. Now, according to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, it is time for another K-moniker for a new,more pessimistic era, as the country with a relentlessly global brand seizes another booming export niche: weapons.
Why N Korea no longer wants to reunite with the South
In a speech delivered at the Supreme People’s Assembly in January, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, stated that reunification with South Korea was no longer possible and that their neighbor should now represent the “primary foe and invariable principal enemy.”
Japan's Kishida eyes South Korea visit on March 20 for talks with Yoon
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting South Korea on March 20 for talks with President Yoon Suk Yeol, as part of reciprocal visits by leaders of the two countries, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
South Korean court convicts 3 ex-police officers in cover-up of deadly Halloween crowd crush
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an attempted cover-up after a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in the capital, Seoul, in 2022. They were the first convictions over the deaths.
South Korea says presumed North Korean hackers breached personal emails of presidential staffer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office said Wednesday that presumed North Korean hackers breached the personal emails of one of his staff members ahead of Yoon’s trip to Europe in November.
South Korea's Yoon calls wife's bribery scandal 'unfortunate'
SEOUL -- In a TV interview that aired Wednesday night, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol addressed a scandal involving his wife appearing to accept an expensive handbag from a pastor, amid growing political pressure ahead of legislative elections in April.