British Scouts participating in the World Scout Jamboree are set to leave the event site amid mounting safety concerns stemming from a sweltering heat wave, Britain’s largest Scouting organization said Friday.”U.K. Scouts are transferring our young peo…
A lawmaker was arrested Friday in connection with a cash-for-votes scandal surrounding the main opposition Democratic Party’s (DP) 2021 leadership election.The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Rep. Youn Kwan-suk suspected of in…
A series of threats to commit copycat crimes have been posted online following a stabbing rampage at a department store in Bundang, just south of Seoul, sending police to step up patrols and hunt down the writers, authorities said Friday.On Thursday ev…
The suspect in Thursday’s stabbing rampage in Bundang, south of Seoul, had dropped out of high school due to social phobia and was later diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, investigators said Friday.The 22-year-old suspect, surnamed Choi, als…
The foreign ministry on Friday established a temporary task force to address concerns raised by diplomatic offices in South Korea over the scorching heat wave and other issues marring the 25th World Scout Jamboree underway in the southwestern coastal r…
National Security Adviser Cho Tae-yong will attend multinational peace talks concerning Ukraine in Saudi Arabia later this week, the presidential office said Thursday.The two-day meeting will kick off in the coastal city of Jeddah on Saturday, bringin…
