On Aug. 15, 1974, the South Korean leader Park Chung-hee was delivering an address at Seoul’s National Theater when an assassin charged down an aisle, brandishing a . 38-caliber Smith & Wesson. Shots ...
10.14.2026 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
Japanese animated phenomenon “Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island” tightened its grip on the South Korean box office over the weekend of Oct. 16–18, commanding more than 42% of nation...
10.19.2026 Yahoo.com and 3 sites
By George Smith A putt to win gold for your country or a putt to gain exemption from military service? I don’t know what Tom Kim would have rather chosen last week, but thankfully for him, he didn’t h...
10.19.2026 Palatinate.org.uk
South Korea: The Assassin film revisits the 1974 shooting of first lady Yook Young-soo, igniting fierce culture wars, box office success, conservative boycotts, and debates over the political legacy o...
10.15.2026 Deccanherald.com
It is not every day that an actor needs police protection over a movie role. Yoo Hae-jin is finding out what that’s like. On Oct. 6, police said they had given the 56-year-old a smartwatch to call for help in an emergency and stepped up patrols near his home. Two days earlier, dozens of protesters had gathered outside his house in northern Seoul. Yoo's offense, as it were, was starring in 'The Assassin(s), ' a journalism thriller that reimagines the 1974 shooting death of then-first lady Yuk You...
10.14.2026 Koreaherald.com
The April 19 Revolution, a mass uprising that ended the Liberal Party dictatorship Deaths and injuries erupted nationwide as police opened fire It was ‘ordinary citizens’ who safeguarded the youths wh...
10.14.2026 Khan.co.kr
VATICAN Pope Leo XIV is to be admitted today in the late morning to the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome for surgery to remove a localised lump in his lung, which he himself announced last Sunday whilst ad...
10.13.2026 Asianews.it