Culture
Korea Box Office: ‘Salmokji : Whispering Water’ Maintains Command in Second Weekend
The local horror-thriller “Salmokji : Whispering Water” retained its position at the top of the South Korean box office during the weekend…
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The BTS Machine Lurches Back to Life
Ten years ago, outside of Korea and Japan, fans of acts like BigBang and Loona were often seen as members of a fringe subculture. Not so…
Style
The Soft Power of BTS
The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the…
Culture
Hyun Bin’s ‘Made In Korea’ Tops Disney+ Asia Pacific Charts
Disney+ has confirmed that “Made In Korea” has become the streamer’s most-viewed Korean original premiere of 2025 across Asia-Pacific…
Business
Straits Trading unit to divest South Korea logistics property for 432 billion won
The Straits Trading Company is divesting a freehold logistics facility in Incheon, South Korea, for 432 billion won (S$377.6 million) as…
Culture
Blackpink’s Jisoo, Gong Yoo, Song Hye-kyo Lead Netflix Korea 2026 Slate
Netflix has unveiled an extensive 2026 Korean content slate headlined by Blackpink’s Jisoo, Gong Yoo and Song Hye-kyo, as the streamer…
Business
South Korea bourse CEO sees Kospi at 6,000, vows to cut ‘zombie’ firms
The index’s surge over the past 12 months is the best among more than 90 global equity indexes tracked by Bloomberg The world-beating…
Fashion
South Korea kicks off AI Squid Game in bid to compete with US, China
The state-backed survival contest aims to find the best indigenous artificial intelligence models Late last year, more than a thousand…
News
South Korea ex-president Yoon guilty of abuse of power in martial law bid
South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of abuse of power, obstructing justice and falsifying documentsin…
Business
Bank of Korea stands pat as board wary of weak won, property market rally
South Korea’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged in a widely expected move, as authorities monitor the weakening won…
Business
SK Hynix to invest nearly US$13 billion in chip packaging plant in South Korea
South Korea’s SK Hynix said on Tuesday it has decided to invest 19 trillion won (S$16.6 billion) to build an advanced chip packaging plant…
Business
South Korea makes checks on increasing US dollar deposits as won falls
South Korean authorities summoned seven local banks last week to question them about increasing US dollar deposits, officials and bank…
Culture
Korea Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Dominates as ‘Zootopia 2’ Holds Strong
James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” continued to dominate the Korean box office over the Dec. 26–28 frame, grossing $8.6 million from…
Business
South Korea central bank to assess incoming data to decide whether and when to lower rates
South Korea’s central bank will decide whether and when to implement any further interest rate cuts next year based on a comprehensive…
Business
South Korea pension fund initiates new round of strategic FX hedging to support won
The won sharply reversed course on the news to rally as much as 1.6% to 1,458.0 per dollar South Korea’s national pension fund has…
Business
S Korea pension fund initiates new round of strategic FX hedging to support won
The won sharply reverses course on the news to rally as much as 1.6% to 1,458.0 per dollar South Korea’s national pension fund has…
Culture
Hyun Bin, Jung Woo-sung Crime Thriller ‘Made in Korea’ Sets Disney+ Debut
Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung go head-to-head in “Made in Korea,” a 1970s crime noir that launches Dec. 24 on Disney+ with a two-episode…
Culture
Korea Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Ignites Market
James Cameron’s long-awaited “Avatar: Fire and Ash” made a dominant entry at the Korean box office, opening to $10.2 million from 1.3…
Culture
South Korea digs deeper into intervention toolkit as won slides
The won has been Asia’s worst-performing currency in the second half of the year In South Korea, calls for action to stem the won’s…
Business
South Korea central bank sees upside inflation risk with a weaker won
South Korea’s central bank said on Wednesday (Dec 17) that headline inflation in 2026 could exceed earlier forecasts, if the won stays at…
Business
UK and South Korea strike trade deal
Emer Moreau,business reporterand Jonathan Josephs,business correspondent The UK and South Korea have finalised a trade deal which the…
News
South Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak
Personal information of 33.7 million customers had been leaked – almost two-thirds of the population South Korean police raided the Seoul…
Culture
Korea Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Leads as ‘People Upstairs’ and ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Debut
Disney’s animated sequel “Zootopia 2” continued its commanding run at the Korean box office, earning $8.3 million from 1.2 million…
Fashion
SoftBank’s Arm plans to set up chip training facility in South Korea
It will train about 1,400 high-level chip design specialists to bolster the relatively weak system-semiconductor and fabless segments…