Belgian ambassador’s wife SLAPS South Korean shop worker in the face after being accused of ‘shoplifting’ clothes in alleged ‘assault’ Security camera footage shows ‘slap’ after angry confrontation in clothes store Xiang Xueqiu is the wife of Belgian ambassador Peter Lescouhier South Korean police say she is wanted for questioning over the alleged assault Xiang ‘cannot … Read more
North Korean in diving gear swims to the South and crawls through drain pipe to defect A man in his 20s swam for six hours in an attempt to defect from North Korea Diving gear and a metal helmet were discovered on beach in Goseong, Gangwon The man also crawled through a drainage pipe underneath … Read more
A Kim Jong Promot-UN!: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is elected ‘general secretary’ of Workers’ Party – the same title held by his father and grandfather, up from mere ‘Chairman’ before Kim Jong Un was given a new title, ‘general secretary’ of the Workers’ Party Appointment is largely symbolic, apparently aimed at bolstering his … Read more
A North Korean parade has spelled out the message ‘defend with your life’ in a Pyongyang square in an apparent rehearsal ahead of a party congress in January. Satellite imagery showed the propaganda phrase being spelled out in Korean by people standing in formation and holding up red placards in Kim Il-sung Square. The think-tank … Read more
South Korea is the latest country to record its first cases of the new highly-infections UK variant of coronavirus brought in by three travellers from London. Officials have vowed to speed up the roll-out of a nation-wide coronavirus vaccination programme after detecting the new strain. The variant – thought to be more transmissible than others currently circulating – … Read more
Baker creates an EPIC pastry puff oozing with vanilla cream cheese – and it’s surprisingly simple to make A baker created an epic puff pastry stuffed with vanilla cream cheese It was shared on the popular Korean YouTube channel ‘Cooking Tree’ The recipe requires simple ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, butter and cream Pastry should … Read more
Why women are now dunking their fully-made-up faces in WATER to make their foundation stay in place all day Women are now submerging their faces in water after applying their makeup ‘Jamsu’, translated as ‘to submerge’, is said to shrink the pores and set makeup Those who have tried the approach said their skin has … Read more
A North Korean defector who fled the country aged 13 has described the horror of seeing bodies in the streets and eating insects to survive because of mass starvation in the secretive state. Yeonmi Park said cold, darkness and starvation were part of everyday life in the pariah kingdom where she grew up and blamed … Read more
A woman likely became infected with the novel coronavirus after she used an airplane bathroom, a new report suggests. The 28-year-old was among about 300 South Koreans who were evacuated from Milan, Italy, on March 31 – in the midst of the pandemic’s height Europe, researchers wrote in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging … Read more
Kim Jong-Un ‘is in a coma and his sister is set to take control’ of North Korea, claims South Korean diplomat South Korean diplomat has claimed dictator Kim Jong Un is in a comatose state ‘I assess him to be in a coma, but his life has not ended,’ Chang Song-min said He added that … Read more