Jeon Chae-ryeon was 8 years old when she and her mother in 1939 set off for Sakhalin in the Russian Far East to live with her brother, a forced laborer on the island at the time. “At age 90, I am thankful to be able to say I have come...
Hirohisa Soma, second from right, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, arrives in Narita Airport in Japan on Wednesday. Soma returned home Wednesday, about a month after he came under fire for his remarks...
A cluster of Covid-19 infections among sailors of the Cheonghae unit aboard a Navy destroyer dispatched to the waters off eastern Africa was anticipated long ago. Yet our military did not consider the possibility of such...
A burial ceremony is underway at Daejeon National Cemetery on Wednesday for seven soldiers killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War. They are among 147 South Korean warriors whose remains returned home from the North via Hawaii...
Four Buddhist paintings from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), which were illegally shipped out of the country soon after the 1950-53 Korean War, will be brought back home from the United States next month, a local Buddhist sect said Thursday.
The remains of four Korean teachers found dead in an avalanche in the Himalayas returned home Saturday. The four victims, all of them school teachers in South Chungcheong Province, had left Korea on Jan. 13 for volunteering work in Nepal.
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