President Moon Jae-in hosts a meeting with senior presidential secretaries on Monday at the Blue House. [YONHAP]

Moon calls for restoring communications with the North after killing at sea

President Moon Jae-in on Monday urged North Korea to restore its severed military communication lines to maintain emergency communications following last week’s shooting death of a South Korean fisheries official by soldiers in the North.

K-pop
ARMY celebrates RM's birthday by planting a forest

To celebrate BTS member RM’s birthday, fans decided to create another forest named after their favorite K-pop star. Over 200 trees have been planted in an area in Ichon Hangang Park, central Seoul, to celebrate RM's 26th birthday.

BTS member RM. [ILGAN SPORTS]
Art & Design
Magok's Space K Seoul transforms area into arts and culture hot spot

Magok, located in a far western area of Seoul, 10 minutes from Gimpo International Airport by car, is emerging as a new hot place for arts and culture. A fortnight ago, Kolon Group opened an art museum named Space K Seoul in the area...

Kolon Group's new art museum named Space K Seoul in Magok of western Seoul. [SPACE K SEOUL]

Television

For Korean OTT platform Wavve, content is key

From left, Chief Executive Officer Lee Tae-hyun, Chief Product Officer Rhie Sang-woo, Chief Technology Officer Felix Cho, Chief Financial Officer Jeong Wook and Chief Risk Officer Lee Hee-joo at an online press event discussing the progress and future of their streaming platform Wavve in line with the one-year anniversary of its establishment. [WAVVE]

K-pop

Blackpink reveals the name of its first album's title track, 'Lovesick Girls'

[YG ENTERTAINMENT]

Arts & Design

Digital art collective teamLab combines humans and nature

The digital art collective teamLab's interactive work ’Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives II,“ installed at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). [TEAMLAB]

K-pop

New BTS album will be released Nov. 20

[BIG HIT ENTERTAINMENT]

Talk of the Town

Stray Kids to drop first EP in Japan on Nov. 4

[JYP ENTERTAINMENT]

Industry

Soaring iron ore prices batter Korea's steelmakers

Hyundai Steel's cold-rolled steel. [HYUNDAI STEEL]

Car

[TEST DRIVE] New Chevrolet Colorado can handle anything Korea throws at it

Chevrolet's face-lifted Colorado pickup truck launches in Korea. [GM KOREA]

Diplomacy

[Heroes from afar] South Africa's 'Flying Cheetahs' took to the air during Korean War

Ambassador of South Africa to Korea, Zenani N. Dlamini. [EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA IN KOREA]

Football

Son Heung-min out for 'a while' with hamstring injury

Son Heung-min [EPA/yonhap

Today's Photo

Going home

South Korean honor guards hand over caskets to Chinese guards at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport on Sunday. The caskets contain 117 sets of remains of Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War. It was the seventh such repatriation ceremony. Of the remains repatriated Sunday, 103 sets were excavated last year from Arrowhead Ridge, a battle site inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. Others were uncovered in other parts of South Korea. Since the two countries agreed on the return of the Chinese troop remains in 2014 in a gesture of their friendship, Seoul has returned 716 sets of remains of Chinese soldiers, including the latest 117 sets. [MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE]

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