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Pastor questioned for calling 1980 democracy movement a 'North Korea-led riot'

Police are investigating a pastor accused of violating a 2021 law by calling the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Uprising a "communist riot orchestrated under orders from North Korea."

2026.7.8

Apartments in southern Seoul are seen on Jan. 26. [NEWS1]

Apartment prices decline in three Seoul districts as real estate market shifts

Apartment prices fell in three districts in southern Seoul — Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa — for the first time in two years, a shift in the capital’s most expensive neighborhoods that signals a broader slowdown in the housing market.

2026.2.27

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Apartments in Songpa District, southern Seoul, seen on March 6 [NEWS1]

Seoul house prices post steepest rise in 6 months, ignite nationwide bump in real estate prices

House prices in Seoul surged in March, recording the steepest rise in six months and driving a nationwide uptick in real-estate prices, according to data released by the Korea Real Estate Board on Tuesday. Last September, it rose by 0.54 percent.

2025.4.15

Un-real estate: Gov't permission system imposition fuels confusion

Apartment listings are posted on the wall of a real estate agency in Songpa District, southern Seoul, on March 20.

2025.3.20

High-rise views

A view of apartment buildings in Gangnam and Songpa District, southern Seoul, as seen from Lotte World Tower on Monday. The average apartment price in Gangnam District, southern Seoul dropped by 0.01 percent in the last week of June ...

2022.7.11

KT will start moving some core departments to the company’s recently-constructed building in Songpa District, southern Seoul, the company said on Monday. At right is the office section of the new building where KT will be located, and at left is the hotel building where French hotel franchise Sofitel will open later this month. [KT]

KT starts moving into new, high-tech home

KT will start moving some core business departments to its new building in Songpa District, southern Seoul. KT said Monday that departments running the company's enterprise strategy, artificial intelligence (AI) software and digital ...

2021.9.13

A murder suspect on Tuesday kicks reporters on his way to a warrant hearing at the Seoul Eastern District Court. [YONHAP]

Murder suspect regrets not killing more

A local court on Tuesday issued a warrant to the police to detain a murder suspect who confessed to killing two women before and after cutting off his location-tracking ankle monitor.

2021.8.31

Soldiers load a military plane with face masks and other protective gear Thursday at an Air Force base in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang. Two KC-330 air refueling tankers departed that day for Iraq on a mission to bring home some 300 Korean construction workers. [YONHAP]

Churchgoers in southern Seoul catch virus

At least 16 coronavirus infections have been traced to a Presbyterian church in Songpa District, southern Seoul, leading to a bump in local Covid-19 cases.

2020.7.23

A Lotte distribution center in Songpa District, southern Seoul, is shut down for disinfection Monday after a worker there came down with the coronavirus. At least 159 of his colleagues have been ordered to get tested and self-isolate at home. [NEWS1]

Untraceable virus infections are on the rise, officials warn

Korean health authorities Monday warned of untraceable coronavirus infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, saying the inability to track the sources of new cases was complicating attempts to prevent secondary and tertiary infections.

2020.6.15

A Coupang distribution center in Goyang, Gyeonggi, where a worker tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday evening. [YONHAP]

Second Coupang center hit by coronavirus

A second distribution center of the Korean e-commerce behemoth Coupang in Goyang, Gyeonggi, has been hit by the coronavirus with at least one worker testing positive, health officials announced Thursday.

2020.5.28