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North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has made another inspection tour of munitions factories and ordered a drastic increase in production of missiles and other weapons

India rises to 3rd in FIH rankings after Asian Champions Trophy triumph, surpassing England. India had achieved similar ranking in 2021 after Tokyo Olympics bronze. India defeated Malaysia 4-3 to lift ACT title. Malaysia remain 9th, South Korea 11th, Pakistan 16th.

South Korean forward “surprised and proud” after being chosen to lead Spurs with Hugo Lloris set to follow Harry Kane exit

Anxious about Japan’s impending release of treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, hundreds of South Koreans marched in their capital Saturday

Asian Champions Trophy: Indians run rings around Japanese defence, storm into summit clash. The top-two teams at the end of the league stage prove a cut above the rest with the host cruising past Japan 5-0; Malaysia thumps Korea 6-2 in the first semifinal in an encounter that saw the…

What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, and fuse it with K-pop, the global musical sensation with roots in South Korea

The United States and Iran have reached a tentative agreement that will eventually set free five detained Americans in Iran and an unknown number of Iranians imprisoned in the U.S. after billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets are transferred from banks in South Korea to Qatar

A Swedish scout leader diarises a challenging 10 days in South Korea, from heavy rains to heatstroke – with K-pop at the end

In a climate of ever-increasing competition, it’s a real feat when any band makes it to their tenth anniversary bigger than ever. Such is the case with K-pop group BTS (short for bangtan sonyeondan, “bulletproof boy scouts” in Korean). The band have released their first official biography – Beyond The…

Ceremony at Seoul’s World Cup stadium wraps up event beset by heatwave, unsanitary conditions and threat of typhoon

‘For God’s sake, BTS is not a cultural weapon to be deployed at wherever South Korea needs it,’ one fan wrote