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In this photo provided on May 8, 2026, by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a major munitions factory at an undisclosed location, North Korea, May 6, 2026
Round-up / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026
Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for his first sentencing trial in the insurrection case, in Seoul, South Korea, January 21, 2026
Round-up / 7 May 2026
7 May 2026
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a parade with his daughter in Pyongyang, North Korea, on February 25, 2026
Round-up / 6 April 2026
6 April 2026
Japan players celebrate following the Women's Asian Cup semifinal soccer match between Japan and South Korea in Sydney, March 18, 2026
Women’s Football / 18 March 2026
18 March 2026
People wait for the Louvre museum to open as employees at the Louvre Museum vote to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world's most visited museum, Dec. 18, 2025 in Paris
Round-up / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026
A soldier stands at a North Korean military guard post with the country's national flag, seen from Paju, South Korea, June 26, 2024
Round-up / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026
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Film of the Week / 22 January 2026
22 January 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends a surreal and brilliant take on corporate lay-offs and their consequences

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (centre) arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, July 9, 2025
South Korea / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026
Kim Jong Un, center, inspects test-flights of hypersonic missiles, in Pyongyang, North Korea, January 4, 2026
Round-up / 7 January 2026
7 January 2026
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, visiting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping prior to their bilateral meeting in Beijing, January 5, 2026. Photo: Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via AP
Round-up / 5 January 2026
5 January 2026
A passenger bus is crushed by a fatal landslide on Khanh Le pass in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025
Round-up / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025
The Kaimana Hila at the Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, on March 19, 2019
East Asia / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
People watch as strong waves batter Basco, Batanes province, northern Philippines as Typhoon Ragasa affects the area, September 22, 2025
Round-up / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
Former comfort woman, Lee Yong-soo (left), who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sex slave during World War II, attends a rally demanding full compensation and an apology for wartime sex slaves from Japanese government near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, August 13, 2025
Round-up / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
This image from video provided by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a person being chained at the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant in Georgia, September 4, 2025
Round-up / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025
Kim Jong Un
World / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025
Motorists drive through a flooded road during monsoon rainfall, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, July 17, 2025
Round-up / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025
This frame grab from a video provided May 8, 2025, shows smoke rise following Israeli airstrikes that targeted hilltops near Nabatieh town, south Lebanon
Round-up / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025
Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, gestures during an interview with The Associate Press at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 13, 2022
World / 27 April 2025
27 April 2025
Smoke rises from an explosion following a Russian drone stri
World / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Residents watch a fire in Putra Heights in central Selangor
World / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol greets his su
World / 9 March 2025
9 March 2025
Judge Moon Hyung-bae (left) acting chief justice of South Ko
World / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Elevated parts of a highway under construction is seen colla
World / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
DEVASTATING: A firefighter works to extinguish a fire at a r
World / 14 February 2025
14 February 2025
Students march during a student-led 24 hour block on an inte
World / 27 January 2025
27 January 2025
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food
World / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
Police officers stand guard as supporters of impeached South
World / 19 January 2025
19 January 2025
A picture of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
World / 17 January 2025
17 January 2025
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk reac
World / 15 January 2025
15 January 2025
Park Jong-joon, the chief of the presidential security servi
World / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
World / 8 January 2025
8 January 2025
Meanwhile, acting leader warns of possible clashes between cops and president's security
This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows wh
World / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
A TV screen shows a file image of South Korean President Yoo
Features / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
Between military provocations against the DPRK and factional warfare at home, President Yoon’s martial law crisis continues to rock the South Korean state — and the US has to have known it was coming, writes KENNY COYLE
A banner is displayed on the overpass during a rally demandi
World / 5 January 2025
5 January 2025
People light candles for the victims of the Wednesday's shoo
World / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
Protesters gather during a rally demanding South Korea's imp
Opinion / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
HYUN KYONG HANNAH CHANG draws attention to the role that music has always played in South Korean protest
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
World / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Yoon Suk Yeol's legal team warns police officers that civilians could arrest them if they attempt to detain him
Protesters gather during a rally demanding South Korea's imp
World / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
A rescue team carry the body of a passenger at the site of a
World / 29 December 2024
29 December 2024
Protesters stage a rally demanding the arrest of impeached S
World / 27 December 2024
27 December 2024
Protesters stage a rally demanding South Korean President Yo
Features / 13 December 2024
13 December 2024
The chaos and confusion that has resulted from President Yoon’s failed coup reminds us that the nation’s US-backed elite has always been ready to call in the military to prop itself up, writes KENNY COYLE
Protesters stage a rally to demand South Korean President Yo
World / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a news conferen
World / 7 November 2024
7 November 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron (left) talks with French
World / 24 October 2024
24 October 2024
A TV screen reports North Korea has blown up parts of northe
World / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
The Last of the Sea Women - South Korea's natural marine div
Film of the Week: / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
MARIA DUARTE recommends a homage to fearless, independent and empowering elderly women
Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan's governing party, the Lib
World / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missiles lau
World / 18 September 2024
18 September 2024
Palestine fans react during the Asian qualifier group B matc
Men’s football / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
JAMES NALTON writes how international football is refreshing compared top-level club football, bringing stories of sporting, political, cultural, and geographical significance
Mpox vaccine MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish comp
World / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
People gather to demand the release of activist Paul Watson
World / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen in a paddy
World / 11 August 2024
11 August 2024
PAWNS IN A CORPORATE GAME: Seventeen performa at Summer K-PO
Opinion / 11 June 2024
11 June 2024
SARAH A SON explains how K-pop was manufactured by government strategy as a global branding tool for South Korea
Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis (right) and Swiss Fe
World / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
The unofficial temperature hits 108 degrees at dusk at Sky H
World / 5 June 2024
5 June 2024
World / 20 May 2024
20 May 2024
President Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential ca
World / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservativ
World / 9 May 2024
9 May 2024
Dr. Leah Roberts, a reproductive endocrinologist-fertility s
World / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, October 4,
World / 26 April 2024
26 April 2024
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (left) and Finnis
World / 5 April 2024
5 April 2024
Rohingya refugees stand on their capsized boat before being
World / 22 March 2024
22 March 2024
Maria Gabriel (left) the prime minister-designate under a po
World / 18 March 2024
18 March 2024
Hungarian lawmakers take part in session which approved Swed
World / 26 February 2024
26 February 2024
A copy of newspaper with the front page showing a photo of S
Men’s Football / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
Doctors stage a rally against the government's medical polic
World / 15 February 2024
15 February 2024
South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-Myung, is transported
World / 2 January 2024
2 January 2024
A man gestures after voting during a parliamentary and local
World / 17 December 2023
17 December 2023
LGBTQ community supporters and members hold hands as they wa
World / 17 October 2023
17 October 2023
A woman casts her vote at a voting center during municipal e
World / 16 October 2023
16 October 2023
World / 4 September 2023
4 September 2023
Germany's Alexandra Popp reacts following the Women's World
Women’s Football / 3 August 2023
3 August 2023
Police officers coordinate the search for a wild animal in a
World / 20 July 2023
20 July 2023
World / 28 June 2023
28 June 2023
Jurgen Klinsmann has been named the new South Korea head coa
Men’s Football / 27 February 2023
27 February 2023
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile laun
World / 20 February 2023
20 February 2023
England's Lauren James (left) and Korea Republic's Kim Yun-J
Women’s Football / 17 February 2023
17 February 2023
Rescue workers treat injured people on the street near the s
World / 13 January 2023
13 January 2023
World / 4 January 2023
4 January 2023
Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open
World / 6 December 2022
6 December 2022
Ghana goalkeeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi, Daniel Amartey, Denis Od
Men’s Football / 28 November 2022
28 November 2022
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects military exercises
World / 6 November 2022
6 November 2022
Women pray for victims of a deadly accident following Saturd
World / 31 October 2022
31 October 2022
World / 27 October 2022
27 October 2022
A South Korean army soldier stands guard inside a military g
World / 24 October 2022
24 October 2022
Funeral workers carry a body of victim at the scene of a sho
World / 26 September 2022
26 September 2022
Visitors look at the North Korea side from the unification o
World / 8 September 2022
8 September 2022
Waves crash over the breakwater in Busan, South Korea, Tuesd
World / 6 September 2022
6 September 2022
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) attends a meeting o
World / 12 May 2022
12 May 2022
Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un orders nationwide lockdowns following country’s first Covid-19 outbreak
World / 22 April 2022
22 April 2022
South Korean Buddhist monks, buddhists and members of civic
World / 12 April 2022
12 April 2022
World / 3 March 2022
3 March 2022
Park Ji-Sung
Men’s Football / 4 October 2021
4 October 2021
South Korean Olympic table tennis team player Lee Sang-su re
Athletics / 29 April 2021
29 April 2021
World / 10 March 2021
10 March 2021
World / 18 January 2021
18 January 2021
North Korean defectors and South Korean activists prepare to
World / 14 December 2020
14 December 2020
Still from Two or Three Things I Know About Her... directed
Opinion / 25 November 2020
25 November 2020
There seems to be no questioning the technological imperative both machinic and human, writes DENNIS BROE
A South Korean navy ship is seen near Yeonpyeong island, Sou
World / 25 September 2020
25 September 2020
Women's golf / 13 May 2020
13 May 2020
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY / 5 May 2020
5 May 2020
Countries such as South Korea have used contact-tracing apps to help contain Covid-19. But will the British government be able to implement the approach without compromising the rights of citizens, ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Stadium seats are empty as a part of precaution against the
Men's baseball / 5 May 2020
5 May 2020
Turkish police officers walk on carnations left by demonstra
Features / 1 May 2020
1 May 2020
Men's Football / 18 September 2019
18 September 2019
South Korean protesters hold Japanese rising sun flags durin
Athletics / 11 September 2019
11 September 2019
Men's Football / 9 August 2019
9 August 2019
Men's Football / 18 July 2019
18 July 2019
Features / 3 April 2019
3 April 2019
Women's Football / 19 March 2019
19 March 2019
Nayoung Kim has rejected traditional ideas about ‘feminini
International Women's Day / 8 March 2019
8 March 2019
Jo Bartosch speaks to NAYOUNG KIM about how South Korean women have lit a fire of feminist activism by rejecting the confining ‘corset’ of sex role stereotypes
Jeon Myeong Gyu, former vice chairman of Korea Skating Union
South Korea / 21 January 2019
21 January 2019
Kim Eun Jung (second from righ) a member of South Korean Oly
Women's Curling / 5 December 2018
5 December 2018
Smoke from an explosion rises at a North Korean guard post i
World / 20 November 2018
20 November 2018
Kim Eun Jung of South Korea throws during their women's curl
Winter Olympics / 14 November 2018
14 November 2018
South Korean women pose for a photo
Athletics / 2 November 2018
2 November 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae In (right) shakes hands with
World / 19 September 2018
19 September 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jon Un promised to take down the country's main nuclear complex to ‘eliminate the danger of war’
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (third left) and North Ko
Athletics / 19 September 2018
19 September 2018
Basketball / 16 August 2018
16 August 2018
South and North Korean players of Team Peace, in white, and
Women's Basketball / 4 July 2018
4 July 2018
South Korean basketball players have their identifications c
Men's Basketball / 3 July 2018
3 July 2018
Wol-san Liem
Interview / 28 June 2018
28 June 2018
South Korean trade union leader WOL-SAN LIEM speaks to Navid Shomali about the continuing struggles of the labour movement and her hopes for a lasting peace in the region
World / 22 June 2018
22 June 2018
Sweden's Andreas Granqvist scores from the penalty spot duri
Men's Football / 18 June 2018
18 June 2018
The Korean Unification Flag
Athletics / 18 June 2018
18 June 2018
Women's Table Tennis / 4 May 2018
4 May 2018
North Korea and South Korea teams pose together for a group
Women's Table Tennis / 3 May 2018
3 May 2018
A South Korean army soldier stands near the loudspeakers nea
World / 30 April 2018
30 April 2018
Former IOC president Jacques Rogge (right) meets with former
International Olympic Committee / 16 April 2018
16 April 2018
The company says media reports it used a lobbyist to help bring the games to South Korea are incorrect
Men's Baseball / 6 April 2018
6 April 2018
A South Korean news channel reports on upcoming meeting betw
Asia / 29 March 2018
29 March 2018
Ex-South Korean president Lee Myeong Bak (centre) leaves the
South Korea / 19 March 2018
19 March 2018
South Korea / 14 March 2018
14 March 2018
World / 12 March 2018
12 March 2018