South Korea

Stuttering Uruguay held by South Korea in goalless stalemate

Uruguay faltered in their World Cup opener against a lively and energetic South Korea after they were held to a 0-0 draw in Group H on Thursday in a contest where both teams struggled to find the clinical edge.
24 November 2022

Spurning WC favourites, Bangladeshi duo hoist South Korean colours

Bangladeshi chemist Abu Kowsir says South Korea gave his family prosperity -- so the least he can do is cheer on his benefactors when they begin their World Cup campaign this week.
21 November 2022

5 most humiliating FIFA World Cup defeats

Some of these took players and fans years to live down, others simply cannot be forgotten.
17 November 2022

Son named in South Korea's World Cup squad despite injury

Son Heung-min was named in South Korea's squad on Saturday for the Qatar World Cup starting next week but it remains to be seen if he will play after a serious facial injury.
12 November 2022

146 dead in South Korea Halloween stampede

At least 146 people were killed in a stampede when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said.
29 October 2022

What BTS’s military enlistment means for fans and the group’s future

BTS is looking forward to reconvening as a group again around 2025.
18 October 2022

Tearful Ok dedicates breakthrough win to dad

Rising home star Ok Tae-hoon won for the first time in his professional career as he held his nerve to triumph in the $1.5 million International Series Korea on Sunday.
21 August 2022

The Netflix K- Drama Effect: How women are moving to Korea to find love

What is now being referred to as ‘The Netflix effect’, hundreds of women in their early 20s, mostly originating from North America and Europe are visiting South Korea and flooding local hostels. This movement caught the attention of Min Joo Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington researching on Korean gender and race politics who decided to take a deeper look into it.
18 August 2022

Five of BTS leader RM’s favourite books

RM, leader of the popular K-pop band BTS, is not only a musician but also an avid reader.
13 July 2022

Current global geopolitical situation favourable for closer Dhaka-Seoul relations: Envoy

The current global geopolitical situation is creating more opportunities than challenges for South Korea and Bangladesh for closer collaboration as the two nations seek to have their relations deep and comprehensive, said South Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-Keun today (May 12, 2022).
12 May 2022

SKAI: New South Korean restaurant in Dhaka

If you are a fan of South Korea and hot pot, then SKAI, the newest South Korean dine-in bistro, is the “Hot Pot” place for you!
27 April 2022

Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian': Surrealism and suffering in South Korea

Han Kang’s atmospheric novel, The Vegetarian (Portobello, 2016), is an evocative look at the psychosis of a woman plagued by her own humanity. In a masterstroke,
24 November 2021

Japan's cabinet approves removal of S Korea from favoured trade list

Japan's cabinet approves a plan to remove South Korea from a list of countries that enjoy minimum export controls, a move likely to escalate tensions fuelled by a dispute over compensation for wartime forced labourers.
2 August 2019

S Korea keen to boost investment in Bangladesh

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has expressed his government’s interest to invest in some emerging sectors of Bangladesh like infrastructure, power, information and communication technology, construction, ship building and energy for boosting business volume of the two countries.
14 July 2019

US urges S Korea to reject Huawei goods, citing security risks: Chosun Ilbo

The US government is lobbying South Korea not to use Huawei Technologies Co Ltd products, a South Korean newspaper reports, amid a wider push by Washington to get its allies to reject the Chinese tech firm's goods.
23 May 2019

S Korea launches 5G networks early to secure world first

South Korea launches the world's first nationwide 5G mobile networks two days early, its top mobile carriers says, in a late-night scramble to be the first providers of the super-fast wireless technology.
4 April 2019

South Korean subsidies encourage foreign ‘bride buying’

Raising a rural population that has been declining for come 30 years has long been near the top of the government agenda, with some municipal governments resorting to helping pay for foreign brides.
18 February 2019

Koreas commit to 'era of no war'

North Korea said it would close a key missile test facility in the presence of "international experts" and potentially destroy its primary nuclear complex if the United States agrees to corresponding measures, South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced in a joint press conference with Kim Jong Un yesterday.
19 September 2018

Five dead in SKorea military helicopter crash

Five marines are killed and one injured when a South Korean military helicopter crashes at a marine base in the country's southeast, the defence ministry says.
17 July 2018

Egg throwers on Korean national team to go unpunished

The Korea Football Association (KFA) decides not to pursue charges against people who threw eggs at the national team after they arrived home from the World Cup, police says.
3 July 2018