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The Haitai Tigers celebrate after winning the 1986 Korean Series [JOONGANG ILBO]

Law of the jungle: From flying bottles to a burned out bus, claws come out when Tigers and Lions meet

This year's Korean Series between the Kia Tigers and the Samsung Lions is a clash of two titans in the KBO, bitter foes whose four-decade rivalry transcended the sport.

2024.10.21

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Foreign Minister Cho holds first conversation with Chinese counterpart

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi over the phone on Tuesday, marking the first time the two spoke since Cho’s appointment last month...

2024.2.7

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Participants in the Global Sentinel ’24 initial planning conference pose for a picture at the Vandenberg History Museum in California on March 1, 2023. [U.S. SPACE FORCE/LUKE KITTERMAN]

Korea to take part in U.S.-led space training event this month

The Air Force and Korean space experts will join the U.S.-led multinational space training event Global Sentinel this month, the Air Force announced on Monday...

2024.2.5

Weathering the storm with stones in their hands

Our politicians only seem to have stones in their hands.

2024.1.31

A Foreign Ministry press briefing in Seoul on Friday. [YONHAP]

Korea hopeful for Taiwan Strait peace after Lai's election win

Korea voiced hopes for continued peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait following the presidential election victory by William Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.

2024.1.14

Cho Tae-yul, appointed as foreign minister on Thursday, speaks with the press at the ministry building in central Seoul on Thursday morning. [NEWS1]

Newly appointed foreign minister rules out carrots for North

Newly appointed Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul dismissed any likelihood that the South Korean government would offer carrots to the North any time soon...

2024.1.11

Foreign Minister nominee Cho Tae-yul speaks with the press in Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

Newly nominated foreign minister pledges to improve ties with China

Foreign Minister nominee Cho Tae-yul vowed to work on improving ties with China on...

2023.12.20

Bok Geo-il, author and researcher on the legacy of Syngman Rhee, the first president of Korea, speaks at a forum in Seoul on Monday. [CHOI YEONG-JAE]

Syngman Rhee's decisions remain relevant today, says novelist

The decisions the first president of South Korea made in the face of geopolitical turmoil a century ago yield lessons for Korea in today's polarized world, a famous novelist told former prime ministers and top scholars in a lecture in Seoul on...

2023.10.23

Koreans support U.S. alliance, but wary of clash with China

Koreans are carefully weighing the possible consequences of expanded security cooperation with the United States, especially regarding possible conflicts with China, a survey suggests...

2023.9.25

Student and teacher representatives of high schools in Seoul pose with German Ambassador-designate to Korea Georg Schmidt, third from right in second row; and Kim Hyo-joon, chairman of the Alumninetzwerk Deutschland-Korea (Adeko), fifth from right in second row, after a youth exchange agreement was signed between German and Korean associations and Adeko in Seoul on Monday. [PARK SANG-MOON]

Korea an important partner, Germany's new ambassador says

As geopolitical tensions grow, Germany sees Korea as an increasingly important partner in the Indo-Pacific region, Germany's incoming ambassador to Korea said at an event hosted in Seoul on Monday …

2023.9.18