(Hong Kong Tourism Board) Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants will be unveiled in Hong Kong in March, marking the first time the prestigious culinary awards are hosted in the city. The 2026 ceremony, scheduled for March 25, will bring together leading chefs, restaurateurs and food media from across the region for a week of events culminating…
Korea is being forced to rethink how it competes, cooperates and survives as China shifts from catching up to setting the rules Containers wait for shipment at a Busan port. (Newsis) China Factor examines how China’s rise is redrawing the competitive map for Korea’s key industries, and what that means for the global supply chain…
Twice (JYP Entertainment) K-pop girl group TWICE has donated HK$1 million (US$128,458) to support recovery efforts after a devastating fire in Hong Kong, its agency said Saturday. JYP Entertainment announced via Chinese social platform Weibo that the donation was made through Hong Kong World Vision to aid affected children and families. The funds will be…
Behind Seoul’s streets awash in black, gray and white lies a quiet desire to blend in rather than stand out, a style shaped as much by practicality as by cultural psychology As morning temperatures dropped and the daily temperature gap widened on Nov. 4, people wearing thick coats cross a street near Gwanghwamun Square in…
A towering inferno ripped through one of South Korea’s largest fashion logistics centers on Saturday, leaving the E-Land facility in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, a hollowed-out shell and destroying millions of garments inside. No injuries were reported. A helicopter circles above the burning E-Land logistics center as massive plumes of black smoke billow over Cheonan,…
An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap) South Korean stocks set a fresh record high Wednesday on hopes for the Seoul-Washington summit and a potential supply deal with Nvidia. The local currency was trading higher against the US…
W Korea’s posts showing now-deleted photos of celebrities attending this year’s Love Your W event (Instagram) Charity galas are meant to blend glamour with goodwill. But when the spotlight shifts too much toward spectacle and the funds raised fall short, public criticism often follows. That is what happened to W Korea. On Sunday, the magazine…
KT program enabling pre-arrival SIM registrations for foreign nationals criticized for lax ID checks The webpage outlines a KT mobile service plan for Nepali visa holders, allowing pre-arrival registration using a passport and before receiving a residence card. (Courtesy of Rep. Choi Hyung-du’s office) Some foreign nationals can sign up for South Korean mobile phone…
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, (from left) Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un look out from Tiananmen Gate as they attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II at Tiananmen Square in Beijing…
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun speaks to reporters at Gimpo International Airport, in western Seoul, before heading to Beijing for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on Wednesday. (Yonhap) The foreign ministers of South Korea and China are set to hold their first talks on Wednesday on key bilateral issues, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s…