A landmark new exhibition in South Korea revisits ancient East Asian Buddhist art from Korea, China and Japan through the lens of gender, highlighting the influence women have had throughout history.

AliExpress, the international online retail platform of Alibaba, has been in talks to invest US$72.4 million to acquire a 5 per cent stake in Ably Corp.

The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harbouring after other cats scratched his car.

A run of Shakespeare’s King Lear inspired a restaurant in the National Theatre of Korea to create a meal with dishes symbolising the main characters. The play has ended, but the menu is still going.

South Korean chef Kim Do-yun has a passion for noodles, and wants to share it with others. He has made creating varieties free from additives, and that preserve a natural fragrance, his mission.

Jewellery chain Chow Tai Fook promises more technology-led shopping because ‘that’s what younger customers want’.

If the government does not relent senior doctors at general hospitals will start to resign on April 25, and the healthcare system could “collapse”, Korean Medical Association says.

Koo Jeong-a, who was photographed for Loewe’s autumn/winter 2023 campaign and is the artist behind South Korea’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about the process behind her ‘Odorama Cities’.

K-pop appears to be a new core element for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival – 2024 saw groups Le Sserafim and Ateez take to the stage, much like Blackpink did in 2023.

President Yoon Suk-yeol was pushing to add more doctors as an integral element of his medical reforms, but doctors said the healthcare sector was not short of medics.

The patient had waited five hours for a hospital in South Gyeongsang province that could perform heart surgery, and six facilities had turned down calls from first responders amid a doctors’ strike.

Noh Jae-myung, 33, has already amassed nearly 300 artworks by emerging artists. He talks about launching a new art fair, called Art OnO, in Seoul, with booths significantly cheaper than usual.

Washington should offer ‘alternatives to what our competitors are offering’, says Foreign Relations committee chair, referring to Beijing’s advances.

He’s the first-ever South Korean president left to contend with a hostile parliament for his entire five-year term, but embattled conservative Yoon insists his administration is moving in the ‘right direction’.

US Treasury Secretary’s meetings to include talks with China on ‘balanced growth’, a new dialogue to address China’s excess industrial capacity for EVs, solar panels and other clean energy goods.

Envoy Chung Jae-ho allegedly bullied embassy staff and a South Korean team is in Beijing to investigate the matter, according to a media report.

Kim Sung-su’s political blockbuster faithfully recounts the 1979 coup d’état that plunged South Korea into its darkest period to date, in a film full of grandstanding machismo and intimidation.

Kim inspected a military university, telling staff and students that ‘now is the time to be more thoroughly prepared for a war than ever before’.

Yoon Suk-yeol’s ruling party garnered 108 seats, trailing the liberal Democratic Party of Korea’s comfortable majority of 175 spots in the 300-strong parliament.

After the election, Yoon will face greater difficulty in pushing through his pro-market reforms in labour, the national pension fund and education, analysts say.

The man punched and kicked the store worker, resulting in multiple injuries, and also injured a shopper who attempted to intervene.

The military alliance should also consider recruiting South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, according to former Nato supreme allied commander James Stavridis.

Chinese foreign ministry says China does not compete with other nations in military power and ‘firmly pursues a defensive national defence policy’.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will become the most senior US official to visit the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas since Vice-President Kamala Harris went there in 2022.