President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a senior aides’ meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating rose slightly to 39 percent after weeks of decline, a weekly poll showed Friday. The survey, conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday through Thursday on 1,003 people aged 18 and…
A bystander has filmed residents of a condemned building in Peru’s Huancayo throwing flaming gasoline on officials trying to evict them. Nine workers suffered severe burns in the attack. Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 Share Residents douse workers with flaming gasoline during eviction in Peru on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera…
Containers are stacked at a port in Busan, Oct. 1. Yonhap Korea’s economy continues to show solid signs of recovery, supported by robust exports and improving domestic consumption, the finance ministry said Friday. In its monthly economic report, the Ministry of Finance and Economy also noted that uncertainties surrounding the war in the Middle East…
Fifteen persons have been arrested by National Security operatives for allegedly engaging in illegal sand winning on the newly cleared right-of-way for the proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway. The arrests were made on Wednesday following a tip-off from a whistleblower, after reports that unscrupulous persons had commenced sand winning activities along sections of the corridor. At Sewuah…
Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il, right, shakes hands with his British counterpart, John Healey, in Bangkok, Friday. Courtesy of Ministry of Finance and Economy. Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il called for joint efforts to address shared economic challenges, including global imbalances, during meetings of financial policymakers in Bangkok, his office said Friday. Lee attended a meeting of…
Apartments complexes in Seoul, Oct. 4 / Yonhap The Seoul city government on Friday blamed policies pursued under late former Mayor Park Won-soon for weakening the foundation for long-term housing supply in the capital. The municipality made the assessment in a report analyzing the city’s housing policies over the past 20 years, as recent shortages…
“The Palestinian question is the greatest historical injustice of this century,” China’s foreign minister said. Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting in Azerbaijan that Israel should stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said…
Tourists wearing hanbok walk through Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul, as cultural authorities launch a campaign to promote traditional Korean attire. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul On any given afternoon near Gyeongbok Palace, the open courtyards resemble a historical pageant. Swirling skirts and embroidered coats flap against centuries-old timber pillars as thousands of visitors…
The ROK Navy’s 49th Cheonghae Unit, aboard the 4,400-ton destroyer ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (DDH-II), departs Busan Naval Base for the Gulf of Aden during a farewell ceremony, Oct. 4. Courtesy of the ROK Navy Seoul is considering expanding the operating area of its Cheonghae anti-piracy unit from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf…
Judge fines government for failing to fund universities as protests over Milei’s cuts turn violent. Reporting from Buenos Aires Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 “This cannot go on!” students shout during an assembly in the middle of the central hall of the University of Buenos Aires Exact and Natural Sciences building. It is…
