Tottenham Hotspur's South Korean star Son Heung-min has put his name in Premier League record books. Son assisted on Harry Kane's goal in the 76th minute of a 4-1 victory over Crystal Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Sunday (local time). The duo have now combined for 14 goals in the 2020-2021 campaign, the most by any pair of teammates in a single season in league history. Son and Kane had been tied with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton for Blackburn Rovers from the 1994-1995 seas

영국 출신 배우 귀네스 팰트로가 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증(코로나19) 후유증 극복에 도움이 되는 음식으로 김치를 꼽은 것은 특이한 현상이 아니었다. 지난해부터 영국에서는 김치가 코로나19를 이겨내는 데 좋은 건강음식이라는 입소문이 돌면서 김치가 떴다. 영국 국민보건서비스(NHS) 관계자가 팰트로의 식이요법이 과학적이지 않은 조언이라며 경고하고 나섰지만, 역으로 보면 그만큼 김치가 좋다는 인식이 퍼져있다는 의미이기도 하다. 영국 아이뉴스는 3일 '소화 잘되는 한국 스낵 김치가 어떻게 봉쇄 중 영국에서 인기 음식이 됐나'라는 제목의 기사에서 김치가 속 편한 음식을 찾는 이들이나 음식 애호가들 사이에서만 제한적으로 관심을 받았지만 최근 건강한 생활과 전통적인 요리법에 관해 관심이 늘면서 인기가 커졌다고 말했다. 아이뉴스는 영국인 팻 빙리가 운영하는 김치판매업체는 판매량이 지난해 첫 봉쇄 이후 '미사일 같은' 속도로 증가해서 11월에는 3월 대비 8배에 달했다고 전했다. 김치는

South Korea and the United States on Monday kicked off a springtime combined military exercise in a scaled-back manner amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The computer-simulated Combined Command Post Training (CCPT), set to continue until March 18, involves a "minimum level of troops" compared with previous ones given the coronavirus situation, and no outdoor drills will take place, according to the military. "The training is to maintain our joint r

WASHINGTON -- South Korea and the United States have reached an agreement on Seoul's share of the burden in maintaining US troops on the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's foreign ministry said Sunday. The agreement came in their latest negotiations held in Washington. "In the first in-person meeting to be held in almost a year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, negotiators from South Korea and the United States held talks on the 11th South Korea-US Special Measures Agreement (SMA) based on their discuss

Foreign investors remained net sellers of South Korean stocks last month, extending their selling spree for a third consecutive month, data showed Monday. Foreigners sold a net 3.24 trillion won ($2.87 billion) worth of local stocks in February, according to the data from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). American investors sold a net 1.37 trillion won of stocks last month, while investors from the Cayman Islands net purchased 840 billion won worth of stocks, according to the FSS. As o

Two nurses working at a hospital in Seoul have tested positive for the new coronavirus after receiving their first doses of Pfizer vaccine shots last week, officials said Sunday. Chung Ki-hyun, head of the National Medical Center where the nurses work, said the test results are not related to the vaccine administeration as it takes at least two weeks for antibodies to be formed after vaccination. The first nurse working at a ward for mild COVID-19 patients tested positive Saturday after experi

The government has launched a nationwide inspection of manufacturing workplaces with foreign employees to check if they are properly following the anti-virus guidelines amid a series of cluster infections reported at such facilities, officials said Sunday. On Thursday, the Ministry of Employment and Labor began the inspection on some 12,000 workplaces of manufacturing businesses that employ five or more foreigners and operate a dormitory for the workers, according to health authorities. Of t

Prosecutors said Sunday they have indicted a couple on murder and child abuse charges over the death of their 10-year-old live-in niece last month who was found to have suffered assault, including water torture. The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office said the child's aunt and her husband, both in their 30s, maltreated her to exorcise evil spirits, believing that she was "possessed." The wife was found to be a shaman. The two were arrested last month after the niece, daughter of the

SK Innovation Co., South Korea's leading refiner, said Sunday it will sell its stake in US shale oil mines to a local glycerin company as part of its business reorganization strategy. SK Innovation said its US affiliate SK E&P America will finalize the deal this month to sell its entire stake in shale gas mines in Oklahoma and Texas and related facilities to Texas-based BenchMark Energy Corp. The company didn't provide the value of the deal. SK Innovation is stepping up its decarbonizat

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Saturday condemned the violent crackdown on protests in Myanmar and called for the release of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. "Use of violence against the people of Myanmar must stop now. There should not be any more loss of lives," Moon wrote on social media including Twitter. "We condemn the violent suppression of protests by the military and the police forces and strongly call for the immediate release of all those detained, including

South Korea had 69 globally top-selling products in 2019, putting the country in 11th place overall, data showed Sunday. China had the most items with 1,759, followed by Germany with 654 and the United States with 520, according to the Korea International Trade Association (KITA). By segment, South Korean made chemical products accounted for 27 of the country's export items with top global market shares, followed by steel and other metal products with 18. KITA said solid-state drives (SSDs)

South Korea's exports of defense products are expected to suffer a setback as governments around the globe have been cutting military budgets amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a report showed Sunday. The global defense budget is anticipated to decrease 2.2 percent annually through 2024, according to the report by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET). The annual overseas military projects won by South Korean businesses have remained flat, hovering around $3 billion from 2016

South Korea's Red Cross is willing to take care of a cemetery for North Korean soldiers killed in the Korean War, its secretary general said Sunday, as the graveyard remains largely abandoned amid an administrative row. The cemetery, established in 1996 in the border county of Paju, holds 843 sets of remains of North Korean soldiers killed in the 1950-53 war. The remains of some Chinese soldiers had also been held there, but they were repatriated to China in 2014. In March 2019, the government

영국 해리 왕자 부부가 운영했던 자선단체가 영국 규제당국의 감시를 받고 있다고 일간 텔레그래프가 5일(현지시간) 보도했다. 메건 마클 왕자비의 오프라 윈프리 인터뷰 방영을 앞두고 왕실과 왕자 부부 간 갈등이 고조되는 가운데 나온 조처인 만큼 구체적 배경에 관심이 쏠린다. 신문은 해리 왕자 부부가 미국으로 이주한 후 지난해 7월 폐쇄한 '서식스 로열'(Sussex Royal)의 법 준수 여부를 영국 자선위원회가 들여다보고 있다고 정통한 관계자들을 인용해 전했다. 자선위원회 측은 이와 관련해 "규제를 따랐는지 검토 중"이라면서 구체적인 위법 혐의 등 세부 내용은 밝히지 않았다. 텔레그래프는 "폐쇄되기 전 이 단체와 관련된 우려를 당국이 들여다보고 있는 것으로 알려졌다"고 전했다. '서식스 로열'은 해리 왕자 부부가 당초 윌리엄 왕세손 부부와 함께 운영하던 자선단체 '로열 파운데이션'에서 떨어져 나와 새로 설립한 단체다. 앞서 자선위원회는 지

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un urged local party officials to achieve "clear changes and successes" that can be welcomed by the people, as he concluded a workshop with regional Workers' Party secretaries, state media reported Sunday. The four-day workshop, the first of its kind, concluded on Saturday and discussed ways to implement economic development and other goals put forth during a rare party congress in January, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "Enthus

With the upcoming Seoul mayoral election only one month away, unifying the candidacies of two rivals from the opposition bloc remains a key factor in shaping the outcome of the high-stakes election. The capital Seoul, home to nearly 10 million of the country's total 52 million population, is set to pick its new mayor in the by-election slated for April 7. The by-election was called after former mayor Park Won-soon died in an apparent suicide in July last year in the face of sexual harassment

South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases stayed above 400 for a second straight day on Sunday on continued cluster infections, as the number of vaccinated people topped 310,000 in just nine days since the inoculation campaign began. The country reported 416 more COVID-19 cases, including 399 local infections, raising the total caseload to 92,471, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said in a statement. New virus cases show no signs of letup due to sporadic cluster infection

South Korea and the United States will stage a major springtime combined military exercise starting this week in a scaled-back manner amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Sunday. Whether to hold the regular exercise has drawn attention as the unification ministry and some civic groups have called for its adjustment to help move forward the stalled inter-Korean ties. North Korea has long demanded a halt to such joint maneuvers. "South Korea and the US decided to

The state human rights watchdog has recommended the state telecommunications regulator come up with measures to protect children's rights from being violated by applications that allow parents to control their children's mobile activities. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) last week dismissed two teenage plaintiffs' petitions filed respectively against several app development companies and the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). They said private firms are not subject t

Former Oceans Minister Kim Young-choon won the ruling Democratic Party's ticket to run for Busan mayor on Saturday. Kim, a three-term lawmaker and ex-National Assembly secretary general, earned 67.74 percent support in a four-day online and telephone voting, easily beating out two other candidates: acting Busan Mayor Byun Seong-wan (25.12 percent) and former Busan city council chief Park In-yeong (7.14 percent). The mayoral seat in South Korea's second-largest city has been vacant since April