(Shot by Park Ju-young / Edited by Park Ju-young) The sharing economy is all the rage across the globe, and of everything that is being be shared, bikes are of particular interest for city officials seeking to make their cities more sustainable with public transportation. Seoul, with an eye on becoming a green city and upgrading its mass transit system, rolled out a citywide bike rental system ...

Gangnam Police Station on Tuesday released black box footage from actor Kim Joo-hyuk’s car showing the moments leading up to the crash that killed him. The police discovered the black box beneath the passenger seat of Kim’s Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen. The video shows Kim’s car suddenly slowing, then steering erratically. It hits another car while attempting to change lanes, before suddenly veering ...

A dancing busker has drawn flak for allegedly harassing women while performing. A short video clip uploaded on social media Sunday showed the street dance performer grabbing a female audience member by her hair in the middle of a performance in Hongdae, a district in Seoul known as a hotbed for youths and buskers. The performer kept on dancing while holding onto the woman’s hair. The person who...

A Colombian TV show has drawn flak for making a racist gesture when introducing BTS, a K-pop band that has been gaining worldwide popularity. The host of the show “Dia a Dia” had introduced BTS’ latest album, which had prompted a man behind him to make a “slant eyes” gesture by lifting the corners of his eyes. After the broadcast was aired, a Twitter user with the name “ARMY (fan club of BTS) C...

JOINT SECURITY AREA -- Since the Ronald Reagan administration, almost every US president who visited South Korea has gone to the Demilitarized Zone, the heavily fortified border dividing the two Koreas, to get a firsthand look at the division and lingering tension of the unfinished Korean War. Wearing bomber-style jackets, visiting commanders have often gazed through binoculars toward the barre...

(Shot by Bak Se-hwan) From early in the morning Tuesday, anti-Trump demonstrators began filling streets near Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential office, where Trump was to sit down with President Moon Jae-in for a face-to-face talk and hold a joint press conference afterward. Police officers in fluorescent green jackets were also seen patrolling and guarding key points near the presidential office,...

Shot by Lim Jeong-yeo / Edited by Lim Jeong-yeo Life imitated art as actors Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo, who starred as romantic leads in the hit drama series “Descendants of the Sun,” married in a private ceremony in Seoul on Tuesday. Drone camera photos taken by Chinese media outlets showed groom Song Joong-ki in a black tuxedo and bride Song Hye-kyo in a white dress with a squared neckl...

Actor Kim Joo-hyuk, 45, died in a car crash Monday that occurred around 4:30 p.m. in Samseong-dong, Seoul, police said. Kim’s Mercedes-Benz SUV was driving along Yeongdong Daero when it hit a car and then fell down a staircase leading to an apartment building entrance. On Friday, Kim won an award for best supporting actor at the Seoul Awards for “Confidential Assignment.” In December 2016, Kim...

YONGIN, Gyeonggi Province -- If you still haven’t caught up with the virtual reality trend, Everland’s Halloween offerings could be a shock to the system. South Korea’s largest amusement park has been running since last month a horror zone filled with actors wearing zombie makeup and scary VR content to mark the Halloween season. Shot by Lim Jeong-yeo / Edited by Lim Jeong-yeo As visitors in V...

According to NK News' report, a photographer named Aram Pan, from Singapore, shot a 360-degree aerial video of Pyongyang, North Korea. Pan was permitted by the communist country’s authority to shoot the video on a microlight aircraft. “An official (from relevant authorities) censored my footage and erased some of the photos. But still, I was able to keep 90 percent of my work,” Pan said to NK N...

Shot by Lim Jeong-yeo / Edited by Lim Jeong-yeo Numix Media Works’ Quantum VR Treadmill is a virtual reality first person shooter game that gives a realistic game experience of walking through a jungle, in the space and through a maze of monsters. The treadmill was unveiled for the first time at the NEXT Content Conference at Coex in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul on Monday and Tuesday. The gam...

Shot by Lim Jeong-yeo / Edited by Lim Jeong-yeo The 2018 S/S HERA Seoul Fashion Week successfully wrapped up the weeklong shows at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Saturday. A total of 184 brands participated this year, showing off 75 spring and summer collections. The events kicked off on Oct. 16 with the opening of the exhibition ‘Endless journey’ of Rubina, which encapsulates the honorary designer’...

BUSAN -- The 22nd Busan Film Festival has seen numerous celebrities attending its events this year. Here’s a look at the stars that have been seen in the southeastern portside city so far. Moon Geun-young participates in an open talk with filmgoers about BIFF’s opening film “Glass Garden,” in which she plays an anxious and isolated scientist, at the Busan Cinema Center Sunday. Japanese actress...

BUSAN -- This year’s Asia Film Market kicked off to a promising start Saturday, with keen interest from Asian buyers and producers seeking out new stories to turn into films. Some 1,250 participants are attending this year from 45 countries, up 30 percent from last year. Seventy Chinese film executives attended despite dampened Korea-China cultural exchange due to diplomatic disputes over t...

BUSAN -- A virtual reality theater is running 36 films at the Busan Cinema Center during this year’s Busan International Film Festival, running through Oct. 21. Seven booths featuring the Galaxy Gear VR and Oculus Rift have been installed on the first floor of the center. Visitors watch films as they are seated on special chairs that allow them to freely view the films in every direction. Vi...