PARIS , May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From July 6th, 2022 , to January 22nd, 2023 , the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will celebrate the bold and exciting creations of Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli (b. September 10th, 1890 , Rome – d. November 13th, 1973 , Paris ), who drew much of her inspiration from her close ties to the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...

SEJONG -- The Cabinet endorsed the supplementary budget worth 59.4 trillion won ($46 billion) in its first meeting under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration in Seoul on Thursday. The budget, drawn up by a group of ministries, is mostly aimed at supporting the self-employed and microbusiness owners. But the real scale of the extra budget in terms of utilization for payouts for the people and other s...

An employee at Woori Bank embezzled 490 million won ($380,000) earlier this year, reports said Thursday, dampening the lender’s struggle to rebuild its reputation after a separate 60 billion won employee theft was uncovered last month. The employee, whose identity was withheld, stole the money by withdrawing from automatic teller machines from mid-January to early February. Woori recently found ...

North Korea will likely top the agenda for President Yoon Suk-yeol and US President Joe Biden at the summit meeting in Seoul, but forming economic alliances and ties to contain China will also be high on the list for the US. The Yoon administration will face difficult choices as the US and China seeking to involve Korea, a strong player in strategic industries such as chips and batteries, in the...

Watermelons are on sale at a traditional market in Seoul on Thursday as temperature went up to 28 degrees Celcius during the day, hotter than the usual.

Korea Aerospace Industries is seeking to expand to Central Europe, the firm said Thursday, as it promoted the homegrown FA-50 light attack fighter during the International Defense Exhibition Bratislava 2022 in Slovakia. “We are prioritizing looking for new markets in Central Europe for FA-50 as the recent accelerated formation of a new Cold War structure is resulting in an increase of defense sp...

Despite rapid digital transformation shaking up industries from manufacturing to finance, South Korea still lacks companies that can provide digital solutions to business challenges, a tech chief executive officer of retail and food giant CJ Group said Wednesday. “It’s the ugly truth that although it is crucial to use cutting-edge digital technologies to improve business operations and satisfy c...

PARIS , May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HOPIUM, the first French manufacturer of hydrogen-powered vehicles, is partnering with Bridgestone, a global leader in tyres and sustainable mobility solutions, to develop premium tyres for its high-end sedan, Hopium Machina. The goal of the partnership is to design bespoke tyres with low rolling resistance technology, a major factor to enhance the vehicle...

South Korea officially entered another election season Thursday, with candidate registrations being accepted for the local elections on June 1. The National Election Commission is receiving applications from candidates seeking to run for local government posts until Friday. Those aged 18 or above – those born before June 2, 2004 – as of election date are eligible to register as candidates. It i...

A secretary for recently inaugurated President Yoon Suk-yeol is under fire for his past comments on sexual slavery victims and sexual minorities, where he called homosexuality a “treatable” mental illness and labeled victims of sexual slavery under Japanese colonial rule as prostitutes. Kim Seong-hoe, the presidential secretary for religion and multiculturalism for Yoon, said in a Facebook post ...

Unification Minister nominee Kwon Young-se said he would consider visiting Pyongyang as a special envoy when he steps into office, during a parliamentary confirmation hearing on Thursday. “I will consider the situation with North Korea and consult with our foreign policy and national defense team and openly consider the possibility,” he said in response to a question from Rep. Lee Tae-kyu of the...

Hanwha Solutions will expand its solar module factory in U.S. and cell production facility in Korea, to meet the growing global demand for reliable and sustainable energy. The investments aim to provide a reliable supply of renewable energy amid growing market uncertainties. It will help countries hedge against rising fossil fuel prices to achieve their goals of energy security. Hanwha also aim...

North Korea officially confirmed a COVID-19 outbreak for the first time in a state media report on Thursday. Calling the situation the “biggest emergency,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered a de-facto lockdown to prevent further spread of the disease. According to the Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang has detected cases of the stealth omicron variant, the highly transmissible offshoot ...

Han Seo-jin, played by actress Yum Jung-ah, is a woman desperate for her daughter to be accepted into Seoul National University’s School of Medicine in hopes of winning the approval of her own mother-in-law. In doing so, Han hires an elite university admissions coordinator whose cut-throat approach to education later backfires. In the show, another family learns that their daughter lied about at...