Containers bound for export are stacked at a port in Busan, Oct. 1. Yonhap South Korea’s exports jumped 93.7 percent to a record $115.3 billion in October from a year earlier, driven largely by a sharp increase in semiconductor shipments, data showed Sunday. Strong global demand for semiconductors, coupled with continued investments by major technology…
Fiction Grand Prize winner Breanna Hundley, left, and fiction Commendation Award winner Jude Vandervort / Courtesy of Breanna Hundley and Jude Vandervort The Korea Times is pleased to announce the winners of its 57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, one of the longest-running honors dedicated to Korean literary translation. The Grand Prize in fiction, awarded…
Crypto firm Binance says it has covered 90 percent of losses from the multibillion-dollar hack. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 The FBI has linked North Korea to the theft of a record $6.3bn in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Malicious actors from North Korea were observed laundering the stolen assets by converting…
A farmworker walks through a flower plantation as dark clouds approach ahead of a storm near Bakersfield, California, US, Oct. 23. Reuters-Yonhap A federal immigration officer charged with aggravated assault after he ran over a Mexican man with his car in Houston will turn himself in on Monday, according to his attorney. Mario Alberto Morales,…
Grita Anindarini JAKARTA — When the energy transition confronts difficult economic conditions within a country, addressing the transition’s unequal impact becomes both more challenging and more imperative. In Indonesia, with an economy recently described as a “ticking time bomb,” coal mining has long been the main driver of GDP in certain regencies and provinces. Pursuit…
Al Jazeera’s @EmmaWithrow attended a packed rally for Democrat Senate Candidate James Talarico at Texas A&M. The enthusiasm for his campaign was exponentially clear, but young voters aren’t all the same. In College Station, supporters explain his appeal, and others express their concerns. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 Share Talarico draws a packed…
A person dressed in a Batman costume stands in front of a burning trash dumpster, downtown Frankfurt, Oct. 31. DPA/AP-Yonhap FRANKFURT/BERLIN — Hooded rioters looted stores in Frankfurt late on Saturday after tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Germany’s biggest cities to demand better education and lower living costs. The protests…
the corporate logo of Binance/ AP-Yonhap WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Saturday that North Korea was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, earlier this week. “The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was…
blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Iran’s top diplomat tells Al Jazeera Tehran has reached a plan with Qatari mediators to reopen Hormuz Strait within two days if the US meets its conditions. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 Share Iran says talks under way on two-day plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz on social media share-nodes…
This composite photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Sunday, shows a test of a cluster warhead for tactical ballistic missiles, conducted the previous day. Yonhap North Korea has tested a cluster bomb that can be mounted on tactical ballistic missiles and vowed to field various types of cluster warheads by the end…
