North Korea remained unresponsive to South Korea's regular calls via military and liaison hotlines Friday morning after leader Kim Jong-un offered to restore severed cross-border communication lines in early October. "North Korea did not answer the opening call through the inter-Korean liaison office at 9 a.m.," a unification ministry official said. The calls through military hotlines also went unanswered, another official said. Leader Kim told a session of the rubber-stamp parliament

South Korean TV series "Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha" is gaining popularity on global online streaming platform Netflix, adding to a recent bullish run worldwide of Korea-made content led by the survival drama "Squid Game." The romantic comedy, aired on local cable channel tvN and simultaneously available for international streaming on Netflix, placed ninth on the most-viewed TV show rankings, according to streaming analytics firm FlixPatrol on Friday. It is the second South Korean s

South Korea remains committed to working closely with the United States on measures that would bring North Korea back to dialogue, including envisioned humanitarian cooperation with Pyongyang, the foreign ministry said Friday. The ministry made the point in a policy report for the parliamentary audit, as Seoul seeks to resume the stalled nuclear diplomacy with the North despite the regime's renewed saber-rattling with a series of weapons tests, including the latest reported test of a new anti-ai

South Korea has decided to maintain the current social distancing rules for two weeks from Monday. “Considering risk factors for quarantine, such as the stronger spread of coronavirus after the Chuseok holiday, and the two holidays starting this weekend, the government has decided to maintain the current distancing stage for the next two weeks,” Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Friday. “The limit on the number of people at private gatherings will be the same as now.”&n

New home permits in South Korea soared nearly 22 percent in the first eight months of the year amid rising housing prices, government data showed Friday. Construction permits issued for new homes came to 312,860 units in the January-August period, up 21.6 percent from a year ago, according to the data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. New construction permits in the South Korean capital of Seoul spiked 52 percent to 50,638 over the cited period. New home permits issued in

The National Assembly will launch its annual three-week audit of the government and state agencies Friday, the last such parliamentary inspection under the Moon Jae-in administration. A total of 745 government ministries and agencies will be subject to this year's parliamentary investigation to be simultaneously conducted by the assembly's 17 standing committees, according to legislative officials. The three-week event is predicted to be a scene of intense bipartisan disputes over a couple of sn

The United States is still assessing the type of the missile launched by North Korea this week but the US homeland would remain safe even if it turns out to be a hypersonic missile as claimed by the North, the commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday. North Korea on Wednesday (Seoul time) said it fired a new hypersonic missile the previous day. "I understand the intelligence community's still making an assessment of the North Korean claim to have tested a hyperson

North Korea said Friday it test-fired a new type of anti-aircraft missile a day earlier capable of downing air targets at longer distances with enhanced accuracy. The North's Academy of Defence Science carried out the test aimed at "confirming the practicality of operation of the launcher, radar and comprehensive battle command vehicle as well as the comprehensive combat performance of the missile," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The academy verified the "r

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged support for China's fight against "hostile forces' frantic anti-China confrontational moves" in a message he sent to Chinese President Xi Jinping to celebrate the 72nd founding anniversary of the ally, Pyongyang's state media reported Friday. "The message expressed belief that the Chinese nation's dream of rejuvenation will surely come true as there are the socialist idea with the Chinese characteristics for the new times," the Korean C

Domestic sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s new foldable smartphones -- the Galaxy Z Fold3 and the Galaxy Z Flip3 -- are likely to top 1 million units this weekend, industry officials said Friday, as the tech giant tries to popularize the foldable category. The third generation of the Galaxy Z series is set to surpass the 1 million sales milestone just about a month after its launch on Aug. 27, according to the officials in the telecom industry. Such a sales pace is similar to that of the Galaxy

South Korea's exports have extended their gains to 11 consecutive months and set a record high level by rising 16.7 percent, data showed Friday, maintaining solid growth despite growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 variants around the globe. Outbound shipments came to $55.8 billion last month, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The monthly figure was the highest since South Korea started compiling such data in 1956. The previous record was $55.4

　The United Nations warned that weather-related disasters have skyrocketed over the past half-century, causing far more damage even as better warning systems have meant fewer deaths. 　A report from the UN‘s World Meteorological Organization examined mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes between 1970 and 2019. 　It found that such disasters have increased fivefold during that period, driven largely by a warming planet, and warned the upward trend would

  영어와 우리말은 위치부터가 다르다. 그 위치와 기본적인 문법사항을 정리하면 영어는 친구가 될 수 있다. 여러 공인영어 시험에도 도움이 되고 기본적인 영문법을 조금 어려운 예문으로 정리해 보고 싶은 분들은 위해 준비했다. 앞으로 3회 연재분으로 이어지니 같이 복습하고 보시면 유익할 것이다. 1회는 명사, 대명사, 형용사 중심으로 정리한다! 1. 명사 문제 i. 명사 자리 찾기 (1) 소유격 대명사 (my, your, his, her, its, our, their)+________  Visitors who want to reschedule their (appointments) must give at least a day’s notice beforehand. (예약을 변경하고자 하는 방문객들은 최소 하루 전에 미리 통보를 주어야 한다.) (2) 동사+________+전치사 Jesse Literature Foundation is soliciting (n

The Air Force on Friday launched a new probe unit under the direct control of its headquarters to better guarantee the independence of investigators, the military said, following a sexual abuse case that led the victim to take her own life in May. Previously, military police at each Air Force unit had the authority to conduct an investigation, drawing criticism that such probes could not be free of influence from their unit commanders. With the launch of the new investigation team, military poli