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SEOUL -- When he died after a long illness in October 2020, Lee Kun-hee, the former chairman of South Korea's Samsung Electronics, left a global electronics powerhouse and a colossal personal collection of artworks among the vast assets he amassed that were estimated to be worth some 26 trillion won ($20 billion).
TOKYO/SEOUL -- North Korea signaled a harder line on South Korea in tearing down a monument symbolizing reunification efforts, days after leader Kim Jong Un said the idea was no longer a possibility.
An assailant who repeatedly struck a South Korean lawmaker with a rock as she tried to resist was a 14-year-old boy who was sent to a mental health facility on Friday, Seoul police said as they continue to investigate the attack.
Beer worth US$55.5 million was imported from Japan in 2023, up sharply from US$14.5 million the previous year and a mere US$6.9 million in 2021 and US$5.7 million in 2020. Japanese beer imports had risen to a high of US$78.3 million in 2018 but began to fall out of favour the following year, slipping to US$39.7 million, after Tokyo and Seoul became embroiled in a major diplomatic row over the two nations’ shared history that led to boycotts of Japanese goods in South Korea.
The episode came to light after a video emerged online showing Kim Keon-hee receiving a US$2,200 Dior handbag by a US pastor, who said he had secretly filmed the incident to prove that she was corrupt.
SEOUL -- A politician was attacked in the South Korean capital on Thursday, local media reported, the second assault on a political figure in the country in less than a month.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish report on Thursday said that adoptions of children from South Korea to Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s was “characterized by systematic illegal behavior” in the Asian country.
The controversy over South Korean First Lady Kim Keon Hee allegedly accepting a luxury bag gift has thrown its ruling People Power Party (PPP) into disarray.