The number of coronavirus infections in South Korea has crossed 5,000, creating panic among the people. It is widely held that the members of a controversial local Christian sect are the main source of the viral outbreak in the country. Meanwhile, a 23-year-old American soldier stationed in South Korea has become the first U.S. service ...
In March, Chinese state-owned CECEP finished a 70MW floating solar power plant in the former coal-mining region of Anhui Province. The project covers an area of 14 hectares across 13 separate islets and is the world’s largest floating solar power plant. The floating solar power plant The project was completed in late 2018, after which ...
Seven famous K-pop stars had their college diplomas revoked by the South Korean Ministry of Education last month. The reason — they did not attend classes as required by the graduation rules. The K-Pop stars who lost diplomas include Jang Hyun-seung, Yong Jun-hyung, Yoon Doo-joon, and Lee Gi-kwang from the boy band Beast. Yook Sung-jae ...
Beijing recently sent five of its military planes into the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ), forcing the South Korean Air Force to mobilize its fighter jets to meet any possible contingency. Though the Chinese aircraft flew away without causing any trouble, officials in South Korea are concerned about Beijing’s increasing aggression in the South ...
For almost 1,500 years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been a significant influence in the Far East. Published in Chinese, it was soon translated into Korean and then to Japanese. The book became a necessary manual for most military strategists in these countries. In fact, Takeda Shingen, a Japanese feudal lord during the ...
Bad feng shui portends bad endings for anyone residing in South Korea’s presidential palace. On the evening of March 22, South Korea’s former President Lee Myung-bak was arrested on a number of allegations ranging from corruption to abuse of power while he was in office. He is currently being held in a detention center in ...