#south-korea

#south-korea

Eighteen years ago, people didn't even know the name of this ingredient, says 58-year-old Gil Sa-hyeon, holding up a cluster of dried brownish stems. Now it's everywhere. His shop, Joseon Yakcho, sits in the heart of Seoul's Yangnyeongsi Market, South Korea's largest traditional medicinal herb market, its streets lined with shops displaying buckets of herbs such as liquorice root and cinnamon bark that spill on to the pavements, filling the air with their distinct, earthy aroma.

The North Korean vessel crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) near the South Korean border island of Baengnyeong at about 5am local time on Friday (20:00 GMT) and remained on the southern side of the maritime frontier for an hour while also advancing up to 5km (3.1 miles) south of the demarcation line, South Korea's military said. Our military broadcasted a warning and fired warning shots, after which the North Korean merchant ship retreated from our territorial waters, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.

Less than four months after being elected, South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung has announced an ambitious campaign to reform the constitution in way which would allow future presidents to serve two consecutive four-year terms instead of stepping down after a single five-year stint. The initiative is at the top of the administration's 123-item policy agenda. Proponents say the reform would also synchronize presidential elections with votes for members of the National Assembly in order to encourage continuity of policies and greater responsibility while in office.

South Korea's government has said it will launch an investigation into whether human rights violations were committed when hundreds of its citizens were detained in a US immigration raid. About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory in the US state of Georgia on 4 September. The raid was the largest single-site operation conducted since the US president, Donald Trump, launched a sweeping immigration crackdown.

On Tuesday, Apple announced its newest product, the iPhone 17, featuring new colors, better cameras, and a slim variation of the worst almond-mom dreams. To flaunt the phone's svelte figure, Apple released a bunch of different ads displaying the phone mid-air, side-by-side with other objects, and, in some cases, being pinched by two fingers. Because nothing texts as good as skinny feels.

Choi's actions at the time are now deemed an attempt to escape an unjust infringement on her bodily integrity and sexual self-determination, the court said in a statement.

There's just genuine excitement and energy on the Korean side to move as fast as possible,

Severance is the first hospital in South Korea to trial a four-day workweek, aiming to improve the work-life balance of its staff. Under the program, introduced in 2023 following an agreement between labour and management, some hospital employees are allowed to take three days off per week in exchange for a 10 percent reduction in salary. Staff take turns participating in six-month rotations, after which they return to a five-day week.

At the 2022 World Cup, South Korea was one of just four nations, along with Brazil, Argentina and Saudi Arabia, not to have a naturalized player in its squad. That is unlikely to be the case in the 2026 World Cup as the East Asian nation selected a foreign-born male player in August for the first time in its history. It is a move that could be more significant off the pitch than on it.

My Korean language proficiency was still very low then, and I worried that communicating would be difficult. But I was surprised that people were friendly and eager to help, even though I didn't speak Korean. At the same time, I saw that Korean society was super, super competitive. People lined up in the university libraries, sat on the benches, and studied so hard. They called it "pali-pali"- quick-quick.

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As per Tesla Korea, those who have reserved the Cybertruck could log into their Tesla account to confirm their order. Customers could confirm their orders from August 29, 2025 to September 4, 2025. New orders for the Cybertruck will start on September 5, 2025.

The Haenyeo, or 'women of the sea', are South Korean female divers who can dive up to 65 feet and spend around 56% of their day underwater.

Members Gunil, Jungsu, Gaon, O.de, Jun Han, and Jooyeon experienced overwhelming energy from a sold-out crowd at the Brooklyn Paramount, marking a significant improvement from last year's performance.

On 11 August, South Korean authorities will decide whether to permit Google to export detailed mapping data for improved navigation, impacting tourism and innovation.

Luiza Sakhabutdinova teaches Russian-speaking ethnic Korean students in the South Korean city of Gwangju. Many of them don’t speak fluent Korean.

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. secured a maintenance, repair, and overhaul contract for the US Navy's Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard.

The 2,000-plus units of Lee Chang-hee's complex reflect South Korea's middle-class dream of home ownership, often likened to a house with a white picket fence.

South Korea is set to end the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, after an investigation concluded the government's foreign adoption programme violated adoptee rights.

In the summer of 2001, Guus Hiddink faced severe criticism after losing 5-0 to France and the Czech Republic, earning the nickname 'Oh Dae-yong'. However, by the 2002 World Cup, he had transformed South Korea's fortunes, leading them to the semi-finals.

Yoon Suk-yeol's attempt to impose martial law on December 3 led to an arrest warrant being issued by a South Korean court due to potential evidence tampering.

The peak wage system was designed to use the savings from cutting older workers' pay to hire younger employees in a bid to boost productivity.

The report identifies severe shortcomings in the South Korean adoption system, highlighting that some children were taken without consent and provided with false birth names and fabricated backgrounds.