Thousands of striking doctors in South Korea are facing proceedings to suspend their medical licenses as authorities escalate measures against the ongoing walkouts that have disrupted hospital operations. Nearly 9,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for two weeks, protesting
Tensions appear to have reached new highs on the Korean peninsula as the South Korean military warned on February 13 it is ready to “overwhelmingly” respond to any provocations Kim Jong-un may throw its way. JCS spokesperson Col Lee Sung-jun told reporters:
The arch was commissioned by Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, in 2001 to symbolise hope for a potential reunification of the peninsula in the future. According to The New York Times, US officials believe that an all-out war would threaten the North Korean
Authorities in Seoul, South Korea, arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of stabbing four people Friday. One man died while another went to a hospital for treatment. A knife-wielding man stabbed at least four pedestrians on a street in the South Korean capital,
A giant panda has given birth to twin cubs at a theme park in South Korea. Ai Bao gave birth to the cubs, both female, last Friday at the Everland theme park near Seoul, the park’s operator, Samsung C&T Resort Group, said
South Korea claimed the satellite North Korea attempted to launch in May was not technologically advanced enough for military reconnaissance purposes. The analysis was based on retrieving and analyzing the wreckage from the failed launch North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has
A man believed to be George King-Thompson attempted to scale Seoul’s Lotte World Tower, the fifth-tallest skyscraper in the world. The British man, who said he wanted to BASE-jump from the top of the skyscraper, was detained at the 72nd floor of
Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, is preaching in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, June 3, on the 50th anniversary of the crusade there of his own father, evangelist Billy Graham, in June 1973. “It is
Zebra on the loose in Seoul sparks frantic chase A zebra escaped from a Seoul, South Korea zoo and led police and firefighters on a chase through city streets before the animal was tranquilized and returned to the zoo. (National Fire Agency
Roughly 500 people were evacuated from their makeshift homes in an area known as Guryong Village in South Korea’s capital city Friday after a fire broke out, destroying some 60 homes. The village, densely packed with homes erected out of cardboard and