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Against the backdrop of a deepening strategic partnership between Korea and India, Indian Ambassador to Korea Amit Kumar emphasized the vast untapped potential for growth between the two nations.

President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee’s Lunar New Year gifts triggered controversy, as they were presented to Buddhist leaders in packaging featuring illustrations of a church, cross and rosary drawn by Hansen’s disease patients. An association of Hansen’s disease patients also expressed displeasure, saying the patients were hurt by the controversy which they said caused by prejudice.

The abrupt death of Ven. Jaseung, former Jogye Order head, has left many people in shock, given his life's aim of helping to spread Buddha's teachings.

Buddhists and political leaders bade their final farewell to late Ven. Jaseung, a former leader of South Korea's largest Buddhist sect Jogye, at the funeral held Sunday. Ven. Jaseung, who served as president of the Jogye Order from 2009 to 2017, was found dead at a burnt dwelling at a temple in Anseong, south of Seoul, on Wednesday, in an apparent self-immolation, or a Buddhist practice of burning oneself alive ...