[K-wave] A sneak peek at K-culture in 2025

From K-pop returns to fresh debuts new movies and streaming platform series our culture correspondent Song Yoo-jin has the key K-culture schedule for 2025 covered. If you’re curious about some of the K-culture events and content coming up this year, this is your guide. Starting with K-pop, several big names will be back in the … Read more

K-pop issues in the new year

With the beginning of 2025, many K-pop fans are excited about their stars’ comebacks. The popularity of Korean pop music is very likely to continue this year. Today we want to explore fresh K-pop trends we can expect this year as well as comeback releases. For that, we are now connected to Professor CedarBough Saeji … Read more

Court dismisses Yoon’s appeal against arrest and search warrants

Amid the efforts to execute the arrest warrant for the South Korean President, Yoon has appealed to the court to dismiss the warrant. However, the court has dismissed his appeal. Ahn Sung-jin has the details. President Yoon Suk Yeol’s appeal against his arrest warrant and a search warrant for the presidential residence was dismissed by … Read more

Hamas says it approves Israel’s list of 34 hostages for possible deal

We begin with the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Hamas, the Palestinian armed faction, has appeared to express willingness to release hostages in line with Israel’s demands. According to Reuters, a Hamas official stated on Sunday, local time, that the group had “approved the list of 34 hostages proposed by Israel.” However, the official said that the … Read more