Korea Times K-Culture Reporter
I am covering trend, food and fashion. Previously, I covered diplomacy, city, environment and unification.
Singer Jung Joon-young, convicted of rape and filming and distributing multiple sex videos taped without consent, has been released after serving a five-year prison sentence.
Eurasian otters are semiaquatic species that are facing extinction in Korea. To conserve them, the government designated them as a natural monument in 1982.
Starting in April, visitors to Myeong-dong, the busiest shopping district in Seoul, will be able to pay street food vendors using credit cards.
Singer and actor Lee Seung-gi and actor Lee Da-in welcomed a baby girl on Monday, Lee Seung-gi's agency said.
The highest court in Korea upheld an 18-month imprisonment sentence, Sunday, for a man who refused to undertake his mandatory military service citing his conscientious objection to violence and war. And the court did so by pointing to the defendant's fondness of playing a popular battle royale video game.
A man in Incheon was rescued after being trapped in a small space within his apartment flat for 20 hours. The successful rescue was attributed to the man's resourcefulness and a neighbor's response, according to police on Monday.
Actor Lee Byung-hun's residence near Los Angeles was robbed recently, according to a U.S. celebrity news outlet on Monday local time.
Police in South Gyeongsang Province arrested a man on Monday on suspicion of stealing 390 kilograms of strawberries from fruit farms in the city of Gimhae.
An online video clip featuring a man who appears to be hanging onto a moving KTX bullet train at a station while at the same time demanding it stop, has gone viral.
Police in Incheon said Tuesday they apprehended a high school student suspected of posting death threats in a KakaoTalk group chat threatening to run over school children with a car the day before.