Former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, photographed in 2014. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon found dead in apparent suicide

Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, was discovered dead early Friday morning in an apparent suicide hours after a police complaint alleging sexual harassment was filed against him.

Talk of the Town 
'7,' 4th full-length album from BTS, top selling in U.S.

BTS had the top-selling album in the United States and Korea in the first half of the year, according to Nielson Music and Gaon Chart on Friday. According to the two music sales trackers, 552,000 copies of "Map of the Soul: 7," the band's...

BTS [BIG HIT ENTERTAINMENT]
Movies
[REVIEW] In 'Peninsula,' it's the end of the world, and I feel fine

“Turn on the lights.”
In “Peninsula,” those four words strike terror as lights and sound are what entice zombies as does the trickling of honey for a swarm of hungry bees.
Ever since the global craze over “K-zombies” started with "Train to Busan"...

Four years after a zombie outbreak took over Korea, the country exists no more. Instead, the zombie-riddled landfill is referred as the Peninsula. [NEXT ENTERTAINMENT WORLD]

Diplomacy

[Into the heart of the country] The Dutch influence on Seoul's cityscape

Ambassador of the Netherlands to Korea, Joanne Doornewaard, left, and her husband, Wouter Verhey, agricultural counselor at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Beijing, at the secret garden of Changdeok Palace, a Unesco World Heritage site in central Seoul, on May 26. [PARK SANG-MOON]

Food & Travel

Feeling blue? These purple islands will cheer you right up

An aerial view of the Purple Islands, two islands in Sinan County, South Jeolla. [SINAN COUNTY]

Arts & Design

Reality and Utterance ages gracefully and still resonates

A photography of Reality and Utterance artists taken in 1982 [HAKGOJAE GALLERY]

Television

Shin Hyun-joon's former manager levels accusations against actor

Shin Hyun-joon's former manager levels accusations against actor

Talk of the Town

Twice tops Japanese chart with sixth EP 'Fanfare'

Twice's sixth Japanese EP "Fanfare“ [JYP ENTERTAINMENT]

Tech

Xiaomi brings its own 5G phone to Korea

Xiaomi's Mi 10 Lite [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Economy

22nd set of real estate cooling measures is released

Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki bows after announcing the 22nd real estate measures, which included raising taxes on multiple homeowners at the government complex in Seoul on Friday. [YONHAP]

Social Affairs

Herd immunity isn't even a distant dream for Korea

Herd immunity isn't even a distant dream for Korea

Sports

Can Korea's Shooter learn some new tricks from the Kangaroo?

Head coach Cho Sung-won, left, and the club's veteran guard Cho Sung-min hope to lead the club back up to the top in the upcoming 2020-21 season. [PARK RIN]

Today's Photo

Smart globes

Augmented reality globes are displayed inside a booth at Seoul International Young Children Education & KidsFair held in Coex in southern Seoul on Thursday afternoon. The fair will run through Sunday. [YONHAP]

Video News

What is sports without the fans
What is sports without the fans

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Opinion