This scenario unfolded with Bae In-hyuk and Lee Se-young in MBC’s recent rom-com series “The Story of Park s Marriage Contract.” The duo s showcased on-screen chemistry during the broadcaster’s year-end awards ceremony last month fueled speculation about a potential off-screen romance.
Seoul has started conducting voluntary radiation exposure tests on North Korean defectors who hailed from areas adjacent to the regime s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, as concerns grow over risks to their health as well as the possibility of food products smuggled in from the North being contaminated. Speaking to The Korea Times Tuesday, an official at the Ministry of Unification said it started radiation testing on 89 individuals who used to live near the facility, in which all of North Korea s six nuclear weapons tests in the past were carried out.
In a symbolic move for peace and harmony, the leaders of Korea and Japan ― Yoon Suk Yeol and Fumio Kishida ― said at Sunday s summit that they will visit later this month a memorial monument in Hiroshima established to remember Korean victims of the atomic bombing.
Seoul and Washington have started talks over their anti-submarine drills for next year amid growing security threats from Pyongyang including its evolving submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) technology.
South Korea plans to lift its ban on public access to North Korean media content to promote freedom of expression and mutual understanding despite the North s intensifying nuclear threats. An official told The Korea Times Tuesday that the Ministry of Unification has been stepping up its efforts over the past three months to give the public access to North Korean television and, in the long run, other media outlets such as Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North s Central Committee of the Workers Party.
An estimated two million pine trees are turning brown after becoming infected with pine wilt disease, according to a local environmental group. The group says that the current damage is close to the levels of 2013 and 2014 when over two million evergreen trees were infected - if not worse.