Our oceans, which play a pivotal role in supporting life on Earth, are at risk. Covering up 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, oceans hold about 96.5 percent of Earth’s water. All living organisms on Earth depend their lives on the sustainability of the oceans. The oceans, however, are at a breaking point, consistently pushed to the brink by environmental threats, such as global warming, overfi...

South Korea’s state-run forest authority is keen on sharing its tale of successful reforestation as South Korea hosts its first World Forestry Congress and becomes the third country in Asia to host the largest gathering of the global forestry sector. The WFC, held every six years under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is seeing its 15th iteration held ...

Starting Thursday, the National Folk Museum of Korea will open “Children’s Day! Today the World is Ours,” a festival that centers around children’s tales and literature written by Bang. A variety of performances and games can be enjoyed through Saturday. Each event invites 30 guests per session, and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Festival schedules are available at the museum’s officia...

After its last episode aired in early April, the SBS’ 12-part series remains strong in South American and East Asian countries, including Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and more. Though it slid down from the global chart as of Sunday, tvN’s coming-of-age romance drama “Twenty-Five Twenty-One” also remained on the Top 10 chart until the end of April. By Lee Si-jin ( sj_le...

The show came to an end with “TA,” “Miroh,” “Star Lost” and “Haven” as the bandmates came up to stage for an encore wearing t-shirts with the word “Maniac” on them. The “Maniac” tour marks the band’s second international tour since it last hosted its first-ever world tour, “District 9: Unlock,” in 2019. The group kicked off its world tour in Seoul on Friday. After Seoul, it will head to Japan t...

With the growing buzz around the metaverse driven by every sector of industry around the world, The Korea Herald and the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Korea are co-hosting a forum to discuss what the hyper-interactive virtual world holds for the future. The two-hour forum invites a number of business leaders and experts, who are leading the rise of the metaverse to share their insight...

SINGAPORE , May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have major impacts on the nature of cross border reproductive care where infertile couples and individuals in the past travelled extensively abroad to access medically assisted conception. The 2022 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) heard that as the pandemic unfolded, a...

Actor Park Bo-gum will resume his activities after completing his mandatory military service duties by hosting the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards, the ceremony’s organizers said Monday. The 28-year-old will host the show with singer-actor Suzy and comedian-television host Shin Dong-yup, reuniting the team from two years ago. Before enlisting in the military, the actor promised to return to Baeksang A...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam , May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last month, Vietnam's leading agriculture-based company GREENFEED confirmed two major deals with French-owned poultry brand LeBoucher and NTT Corporation , a global technology solutions provider. These milestones help the company inch closer to its ambition to become one of the country's most diverse conglomerates. A GREENFEED Vi...

Meanwhile, Cafe Pascucci, the street cafe brand run by a leading food company SPC Group, launched an espresso bar on the first floor of the group’s headquarters in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, in September last year. By Choi Jae-hee ( cjh@heraldcorp.com )

South Korea's icebreaker is on its way to the southeastern port of Busan after completing a 195-day international exploration mission in the Antarctic Ocean, the oceans ministry said Monday. The Araon, South Korea's first ice breaking vessel, kicked off its mission to the South Pole on Oct. 20 last year and will return to Busan on Tuesday, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said. The 7,487-to...

South Korea has identified descendants of six independence activists who supported the nation's fight against Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule from Hawaii, the veterans affairs ministry said Monday. The identification was an outcome of the project that the ministry launched in December to locate descendants of the activists, who operated in the U.S. territory, and properly honor them with state ben...

Major South Korean securities firm Meritz Securities Co. said Monday its first-quarter net profit rose 33.4 percent from a year ago on the back of good performance at its investment banking unit (IB) and solid returns from its investment. Net profit stood at a quarterly record of 282.4 billion won ($224.9 million) in the January-March period, the company said in a regulatory filing. Its operati...

President Moon Jae-in pledged Monday to work together with the international community to conserve forests. Moon made the remark in a keynote speech at the opening of the 15th World Forestry Congress in Seoul, saying South Korea experienced forest destruction during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea and the 1950-53 Korean War. "Based on our experience of restoring forests through solidarit...

South Korea and Norway kicked off annual three-day talks on defense industry cooperation in Seoul on Monday, the state arms procurement agency here said, as Seoul seeks to support local companies' efforts to tap into the European country's market. The two sides began the ninth session of their joint committee on arms industry cooperation, with their agenda including South Korea's bid to export K...