SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- A memorial hall to remember Kim Bok-dong, an iconic Korean victim of Japanese wartime sexual slavery, will be built in Uganda, a Seoul-based civic group said Wednesday.

SEOUL, Jun 19 (Yonhap) -- A literature festival honoring the late great South Korean female novelist Pak Kyongni will take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, later this week, the writer's cultural

SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- K-pop boy band BTS has won a major prize at this year's Radio Disney Music Awards, the band's second successful year at the annual music awards show by the American netwo

SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, the North's state media reported Monday, marking his first trip to Pyongyang since becoming

SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- An international cartoon and animation festival will open in Seoul next month, showcasing the changing environment and paradigms of the industry, the event's organizer sa

LODZ, Poland, June 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean midfielder Lee Kang-win earned the Golden Ball as the best player of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland on Saturday.

SEOUL, June 16 (Yonhap) -- More than 20,000 refugee applications have piled up, but only 81 government officials are assigned to review the cases, a local human rights group said Sunday, citing dat

BUSAN, June 15 (Yonhap) -- Throwing its first-ever concert in the second-biggest South Korean city of Busan on Saturday, K-pop band BTS dazzled some 25,000 fans in this bustling port city.

SEOUL, June 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has completed quarantine measures against African swine fever in regions bordering North Korea, which reported a recent outbreak of the contagious animal dise

SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- An exhibition of Fauvist and Cubist masterpieces from France's Troyes Museum of Modern Art kicked off on Wednesday in Seoul for a three-month run.