•D’Tigress Nigeria’s D’Tigress have suffered a disappointing start to their 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup campaign, falling 99–81 to South Korea in their opening Group B fixture in Berlin today. The African champions entered the tournament hoping to make a strong statement, but South Korea proved too difficult to contain, gradually pu...
•Jailed Unification Church leader Hak Ja-Han A South Korean court sentenced the leader of the secretive and powerful Unification Church today to two years in prison on charges of bribing officials, including then wife of the president. Han Hak-ja, 83, was accused of providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to former First Lady Kim...
•President of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung South Korea began enforcing today a revised law targeting false information posted online, toughening penalties for repeat offenders despite concerns over the impact on free speech. The law, which requires major platforms to set up new response systems, comes as concern grows in the country over digital...
•South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae South Korea aims to roll out a $17 billion “wartime” supplementary budget and expand fuel tax cuts as the war in Iran pushes up energy prices, the government said today. Officials aim to “draw up a supplementary budget worth 25 trillion won next month — funded by excess tax […]
•American troops South Korea has warned its citizens to leave Iran amid rising tensions and concerns over a possible US military strike, according to an embassy statement and local media reports today. In a safety notice on its website yesterday, the South Korean Embassy in Iran warned that the country’s security could deteriorate rapidly. It ...
•South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol A South Korean judge sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol today to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration and in its chaotic aftermath. It is the first in a series of verdicts for the disgraced ex-leader, whose […...
•South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol (R) South Korea’s disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was detained for a second time today over his declaration of martial law and held in a solitary cell as investigators widened their insurrection probe. Yoon plunged South Korea into a political crisis when he sought to subvert civilian rule ...
•Election officials unload a ballot box at a counting station in Seoul today Centre-left candidate Lee Jae-myung is projected to win South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide after months of political chaos, exit polls showed today, with turnout the highest in nearly three decades. Six months to the day after ex-president Yoon Suk Ye...
•A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Seoul during the presidential election today South Koreans began voting today for a new president, capping six months of political upheaval following ex-leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s disastrous declaration of martial law. A handful of elderly voters lined up at a polling station in Seoul’s Munrae-dong ...
•The logo of the Bank of Korea South Korea’s economy unexpectedly contracted 0.1 percent in the first three months of this year, the country’s central bank said today, as the Asian export giant reels from months of political chaos and heightened trade tensions. US President Donald Trump’s threatened 25 percent “reciprocal” tariffs on export-de...
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