SEOUL, Acclaimed novelist Han Kang’s latest novel “I Do Not Bid Farewell” has won a French literary award.
The novel took home the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, according to the award’s organizer Friday (French time), for her “restrained …
SEOUL, The fourth and final unit of the South Korean-built Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started up, signaling its commercial operation, South Korea’s state-run utility firm said Friday.
The Unit 4 reactor began …
SEOUL, The government intensified pressure on striking trainee doctors by conducting a police raid on offices of a major doctors’ association and repeating the back-to-work order Friday as many of them remained off the job after the government-set de…
SEOUL, The government of President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to draw up a new vision for unification with North Korea to include the principle of liberal democracy, a presidential official said Friday.
It will mark the first revision to the National Commu…
SEOGWIPO, Jeju, A fishing boat with 10 crew members on board capsized off the southern island of Jeju on Friday, leaving one of them dead and two others missing, the Coast Guard said.
Five South Korean and five Vietnamese were aboard the 33-ton vess…
SEOUL, North Korea was again assessed as one of the most repressive countries in the world in an annual report by the U.S.-based freedom watchdog, receiving only three out of 100 points on the freedom index.
In the report, titled “Freedom in the Wor…
