The South Korean national football federation said Saturday it has finalized its hiring of Hong Myung-bo as the new men’s national team head coach, following a drawn-out process of replacing Jurgen Klinsmann. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said its board of directors approved Hong’s appointment in a vote held from Wednesday to Friday, with 21 … Read more
K-pop boy group Enhypen has broken its own first-week sales record by selling more than 1.88 copies of its second full-length album, a market tracker said Saturday. Sales of the album, titled “Romance: Untold,” reached 1,883,143 units on Friday alone, the day of its release, according to Hanteo Chart, a leading local album sales tracker. … Read more
National Security Adviser Chang Ho-jin said Saturday the South Korea-U.S. alliance will remain sturdy regardless of whether former American President Donald Trump regains the presidency. “Regarding the South Korea-U.S. alliance, (we) have a solid support base across both the ruling and opposition sides in the United States,” Chang said during his appearance on Yonhap News … Read more
North Korea condemned the joint nuclear deterrence guidelines signed by Seoul and Washington as a “reckless provocative act,” threatening that the allies will pay “an unimaginably harsh price” if they commit further provocations. The message was published by the official Korean Central News Agency in a press statement from a defense ministry spokesperson after South … Read more
Vietnam shipped some 29.2 billion USD worth of agro-forestry-aquatic products abroad during the January-June period, a year-on-year increase of 19%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The sector’s trade surplus during the six-month span surged 62.4% against the same time last year to around 8.28 billion USD. Seven products and groups of … Read more
The import – export turnover between Vietnam and China is predicted to approximate and even exceed 200 billion USD in 2024, driven by strong trade improvement in the first half of the year. The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) reported that bilateral trade witnessed strong recovery in the first two quarters, hitting nearly 95 … Read more