The final turnout in South Korea’s snap presidential election reached 79.4 per cent, the highest for a presidential vote since 1997. According to the Central Election Commission of Korea, approximately 35.24 million people participated in the election held on Tuesday. The total number of eligible voters was about 44.39 million. Early voting, which took place…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said “soldiers, weapons and ideology’’ are the three essential elements of the armed forces, state media reported on Tuesday. During a visit to a military and political University, Kim highlighted the “ideology-first’’ principle and that “arms without ideology are little short of ironware,’’ the state-controlled KCNA news agency…
Both engines of a plane that crashed in South Korea in late December, killing 179 people, show traces of a bird strike, according to a preliminary investigation report released on Monday. South Korean investigators said feathers and blood stains belonging to the baikal teal species were found on the engines. The migratory duck is mainly…
South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said Monday it has requested the defense ministry and the presidential security service to cooperate ahead of the second attempt to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol. The CIO said it sent letters to the ministry and the security service late Sunday asking for their cooperation and…
South Korea’s law enforcement authorities on Monday summoned impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over charges of insurrection and abuse of power related to his failed attempt to impose martial law. The joint investigation team, consisting of the police, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials, and the defence ministry’s investigation unit, said it…
The South Korean Foreign Ministry has on Monday summoned the Russian ambassador in Seoul over the apparent deployment of North Korean soldiers to Russia, the Yonhap news agency reported. During the meeting, First Vice Foreign Minister, Kim Hong Kyun, said he expressed his disappointment over Georgy Zinoviev. Zinoviev made no comment to the journalists present…
Miss Jennifer Ezeonyeasi, Culture and Events Administrative Assistant at the Korean Cultural Centre in Nigeria (KCCN), has urged the creative sector to utilise the opportunity to infuse cultural attires of Korea and Nigeria through fashion. Ezeonyeasi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, stating that…
