South Korea’s President Lee orders new investigation team to look into deadly Halloween 2022 crush

SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving the police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, mostly young people on Oct 29, 2022, his spokesperson …

South Korea’s Lee orders new investigation team to look into deadly 2022 crush

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that led to 159 deaths in 2022, his spokesperson said on Thursday. …

South Korea's top court clears Samsung chairman Lee

Two dead as South Korea is lashed by heavy rain

South Korea's top court clears Samsung chairman Lee

For nearly a decade, Lee has faced legal challenges, including those from the merger that paved the way for his succession after his father, Lee Kun-hee, had a heart attack in 2014 that left him in a coma.

South Korea ends the controversial practice of 'exporting' adoptions

A new law will end a practice that began after the Korean War and lasted for decades. The process will now pass from private agencies to the state, in accordance with the Hague Convention. However, some issues remain, including the need for more …

ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 10th World Youth Peace Pilgrimage in the Demilitarized Zone: "There can be no world peace without ...

Wednesday, 16 July 2025 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula". This is the slogan that young Koreans launched, who gathered in the Demilitarized Zone (a strip of land created in 1953 after the …

South Korea sees promise in three-back strategy

Although South Korea missed out on lifting the East Asian Cup trophy, its blueprint for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North and Central America became a little clearer. South Korea’s national team lost 1-0 to Japan in the final match of the 2025 East Asian …

Japan VTuber agency Brave acquires South Korea's StelLive

TOKYO -- Japan's Brave group, a management agency for VTuber virtual entertainers, has acquired South Korean peer StelLive, aiming to strengthen its merchandise business and ramp up its operations overseas. In addition to the deal, the value of which …

South Korea must wake up to China's tech threat

Schoni Song is director and global business lead at Macoll Consulting Group, South Korea's premier public and government affairs consultancy. Recent revelations from Brussels, dubbed as "Huawei-gate," read like a political thriller. A former …