A new TV series about a mermaid's adventures on land opened at the top of a chart measuring TV shows' popularity, data showed Tuesday.
When a young man with no dating experience spots a beautiful woman at a library, he gives her a piece of paper asking her to go out with him. What the puzzled woman sees on the paper is a complicated math formula. He returns later, expecting a yes. Instead, the woman coolly pulls out the paper, which shows the answer is "18," a number that sounds like "shit" in Korean. He tries to explain that there must have been a mistake, that he meant to ask the question on the other side. Her answer, she says, is still the same. He leaves, but only after defiantly turning the pages of her book.
South Korean girl group 2NE1 has officially disbanded, its agency revealed on Friday, confirming that only two of the three remaining members will continue their careers with the company.
Four out of 10 televisions sold on online shopping malls in the United States this year were manufactured by South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., a report showed Thursday.
Kimchi is soul food that Koreans can't live without, but foreigners may find it hard to eat the spicy, fermented cabbage at first due to its strong scent of salted fish and garlic.
South Korean actress Park Shin-hye became a member of a major donors' club run by an international relief and development organization, the NGO said Wednesday.
South Korean boy band BIGBANG will be releasing a new album on the birthday of its youngest member, Seungri, next month, its agency said Tuesday.
Hit 90's girl group S.E.S. will return to the K-pop scene after a 14-year hiatus with a new song, its agency said on Wednesday.
South Korean actress Lee Da-hae's latest Korean-Chinese TV drama "Best Lover" has accumulated more than one hundred million views on a Chinese online broadcaster, her agency said Monday.
South Korea's financial authorities are looking into whether a local bank has extended illicit or preferential loans to President Park Geun-hye's friend at the heart of a massive influence-peddling scandal and her daughter, officials said Monday.
U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. released the latest editions of its iPhone lineup in South Korea on Friday amid the vacuum of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7.
South Korea will send an on-site inspection team early next year to foreign countries where terrorist attacks are frequent, officials said Wednesday.