Golfer Kim Sei-young hits off the 1st tee during the fourth round of the LPGA FM Championship golf tournament in Norton, Massachusetts, Aug. 30. AP-Yonhap As the LPGA Tour makes its second straight Korean stop at a seaside course this week, the event’s top Korean names on Wednesday predicted windy conditions will be a key…
Former special counsel Park Young-soo arrives at the Seoul High Court in Seoul’s Seocho District, Wednesday. Yonhap An appellate court on Wednesday reduced former special counsel Park Young-soo’s sentence on bribery-related charges by one year to six years in prison. The Seoul High Court also fined Park 200 million won ($150,000) and ordered him to…
An Australian independent lawmaker, Helen Haines, has had both legs amputated after being struck by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria state, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called “a deliberate attack”. The MP’s right leg was amputated on Wednesday, two days after her left leg was amputated at a hospital in Melbourne,…
FIDELITY Bank Ghana has completed its commitment to build or renovate 15 basic schools in underserved communities across Ghana with the inauguration of newly constructed and renovated facilities at Ogome Anglican Basic School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality. The project, undertaken in partnership with Pencils of Promise under the Bank’s Orange Impact Initiative, marks the…
K-pop girl group IVE / KoreaTimes file Seoul is transforming one of its most iconic architectural landmarks into a high-octane venue for K-pop, partnering with girl group IVE to launch its latest comeback campaign at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in an effort to turn global fandom into tourism revenues and longer hotel stays. The Seoul…
You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, attends a parliamentary audit at National Assembly in Seoul, Monday. Yonhap You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, offered to resign Wednesday amid a controversy over the museum’s display of a misattributed calligraphic work from his private collection. He came under fire after the…
Independent lawmaker Helen Haines is in stable condition, her husband says, as suspect charged with three offences. Published On 21 Oct 202621 Oct 2026 Australian independent lawmaker Helen Haines has had both of her legs amputated after being rammed by a car outside her electoral office, her husband said, as the suspected attacker appeared in…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyy, center, stands beside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, right, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, 2nd left, and U. S. envoy Steve Witkoff, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday. AP-Yonhap OSLO — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks in Oslo with top U.S. envoys on Tuesday in a bid to get strained relations with…
Peter Hayes Ultimately, war is politics by other means, and international law is the codification of the practices and legal doctrines of great powers that define the limits on the use of “other means” by states pursuing political ends in endless, ruthless competition. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Korean Peninsula, where a…
The visit was aimed at seeking the Speaker's guidance on the process of promulgating legislation that would ultimately give birth to the Institute's charter.
