President Yoon Suk Yeol has pledged nearly 18-billion U.S. dollars in support for small business owners, to help them repay their loans and grow into large innovative enterprises. On Wednesday, the South Korean leader chaired a meeting on the government’s economic policy roadmap for the second half of the year. While noting that the country’s … Read more
The National Assembly began its three-day interpellation of the Yoon administration’s policies on Tuesday. The first day ended with sparring between rival party lawmakers. Our political correspondent Shin Ha-young has more. Marking the 22nd National Assembly’s first government question-and-answer session on Tuesday, political matters, as well as diplomacy and security, took center stage. Among the … Read more
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Police are investigating the deadly car accident that took 9 lives, with all possibilities open. The driver who claims the car suddely accelerated is reportedly a bus driver with 40 years of experience. Ahn Sung-jin reports. A devastating scene in downtown Seoul on Monday night. A car drove into a group of pedestrians waiting at … Read more
Good morning. It was pouring down yesterday in the capital area with the season’s first rain advisory issued in Seoul, the showers have let up here but rain clouds are dropping showers on Gyeongsang-do Provinces and some of the central areas. Jeolla-do and west of Gyeongsang-do could see 10 to 40 millimeters of rain, elsewhere … Read more
A zoo in Chile introduced a baby white rhinoceros named “Silverio” to the public on Tuesday. Silverio is the third baby from the white rhino couple Oliver and Hannah, who arrived at the Buin zoo in Chile’s Santiago from South Africa in 2013. The 12-day-old baby rhino already weighs almost a ton, and is the … Read more
Now to Türkiye where Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed on Tuesday that police had detained 474 people involved in attacks targeting Syrian communities across the country overnight. In the central city of Kayseri, properties and vehicles owned by Syrians were vandalized, while some were set on fire, fueled by social media posts that a Syrian … Read more
The leaders of the UK’s main political parties are campaigning in full swing, ahead of the July 4th General Election. Keir Starmer’s Labour party, which has a huge lead in the polls, is calling for a change of political leadership to end 14 years of Conservative rule with a promise to bring Britain “back” as … Read more
We begin today in the U.S., where a New York judge has delayed Donald Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction in a hush-money case until September as the former U.S. president seeks to challenge his conviction after the Supreme Court ruled partial presidential immunity on Monday. The first former U.S. president to be ever convicted … Read more
Israel has ordered the mass evacuation of Palestinians from the city of Khan Younis, which hints that a new ground assault there is imminent. For more on the Israel-Hamas war, we’re joined by Professor Robert Lawrence. Welcome to the program. 1. Why Khan Younis again? 2. Victims and relatives of victims of the October 7 … Read more
