Five players plying their trade overseas will join the South Korean men’s team for the upcoming Asian Olympic qualifiers, the sport’s national federation announced Friday. The Korea Football Association (KFA) unveiled the 23-man squad set to compete...

Suga of the K-pop sensation BTS began receiving basic military training at a boot camp in a central region Thursday as part of his ongoing alternative service, according to the group’s agency. The rapper, whose original Korean...

K-pop boy group Super Junior’s Ryeowook will tie the knot with Ari, a former member of the now-disbanded girl group Tahiti, in May, Ryeowook announced Friday. “I had pondered this issue since long ago and decided to...

J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS shared his perspective on music and dance ahead of the release of his new solo album Friday, saying, “Good music makes good dancing.” “Our movement is linked to music and naturally expressed...

Banks’ loan rate declined for the third straight month in February, as the central bank has frozen its key rate for a year amid still high inflation, data showed Friday. The average lending rate of banks applied...

The Bank of Korea said Friday it had bought a net US$1.98 billion in the fourth quarter of last year amid the strengthening of the Korean won against the U.S. dollar. The fourth-quarter dollar buying is the...