Sinchon News Today

The local punk label World Domination, Inc. (WDI) has released devastating news: ITS A FEST! (IAF!), its beach music festival, held last year and in 2019 on Incheons Hanagae Beach, will not be proceeding as planned. Instead, it will be moved to indoor venues in Seoul, where it will be held under the subtitle Escape to Sinchon.

Tucked away in the winding alleyways of Sinchon, a bustling university neighborhood in western Seoul, stands a three-story building with a rather unassuming presence.

More than 6.91 million South Korean voters headed to the polls as of 6 p.m. Friday to cast their ballots on the first day of the early voting for next week’s parliamentary elections. Some 15.61 percent of all 44.28 million eligible voters here had cast their votes at a total of 3,565 polling stations across the country as of 6 p.m., according to the National Election Commission. The figure marked the highest tu...

As the April 10 general election day looms just around the corner, political parties are engaging in a last-minute sprint to woo voters, with a particular focus on young people who are anticipated to play a decisive role in the outcome.

On a rainy Monday night in March, nostalgic melodies of Japanese city pop played aloud outside a small pub in an old neighborhood near Seoul Station.

National Election Commission officials put up posters of candidates for the April 10 general elections in Jongno District, Seoul, March 28, which is the first day of the election c...

Chaos of KT fire sends hundreds of thousands of users into dark ages

To avoid the health care crisis turning into an election rout, the administration and ruling party appear to be putting forth Han Dong-hoon as a mediator

SEOUL—Once considered to be a minor genre of music here, J-pop has now become music to the ears of young South Koreans.

The Hankyoreh met up with people seeking care at the military and public hospitals that patients have been flocking to after being abruptly discharged from hospitals where they were being treated in Seoul