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…
The U.S. Capitol, as viewed from the National Mall, at blue hour in Washington, D.C., Sept. 1. Reuters-Yonhap WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators have introduced bipartisan legislation seeking to reaffirm Washington’s “ironclad” extended nuclear deterrence commitments to South Korea and other treaty allies, amid growing nuclear threats from North Korea, China and Russia. The Reaffirming…
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to intensify efforts to recover unpaid taxes from public institutions and businesses cited in the Auditor-General’s reports. The committee asked the Authority to verify the amounts owed and collect outstanding payments from organisations including the Ghana Airports Company Limited, Ghana Water Company Limited…
Sunny K. Park, president of the Korean War United Nations Veterans Memorial Foundation, speaks during an interview with The Korea Times at the newspaper’s headquarters, Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul For Sunny K. Park, memories of the 1950-53 Korean War remain vivid more than seven decades later. Park, an 84-year-old Korean American…
Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 Harare, Zimbabwe – The government is trying to persuade citizens to use its own currency more widely, with the longer-term aim of reducing reliance on the US dollar. But after years of currency instability, many remain reluctant to trust the latest attempt. The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), introduced in…
Students look at a job information board at a university in Seoul, Sept. 9. Yonhap Korea added 113,000 jobs in September, marking three consecutive months of employment gains over 100,000, government data showed Friday. The number of employed people came to 29.26 million in September, compared with 29.15 million a year earlier, according to the…
The Court of Appeal will on November 4 deliver its ruling on an application by the New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, seeking bail pending an appeal against his 20-year prison sentence in an illegal mining case.
7.4%: That’s how fast Ghana’s economy grew in July 2026, up from 4.9% a year earlier
