- January 14th, 2026
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced that the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet has successfully completed all planned development flight tests, marking a watershed moment for the country’s defense and aerospace ambitions. The achievement, recorded after approximately 1,600...
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung surprised many online this week after videos of the two leaders playing the drums together circulated widely on social media, striking an unusually light-hearted note in bilateral diplomacy....
South Korea’s central bank is widely expected to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.50 per cent on Thursday, as weakness in the local currency and lingering inflation risks constrain the scope for further monetary easing, according to economists...
Indonesia’s renewed pursuit of the KF-21 Boramae fighter programme reflects a carefully calibrated effort to resurrect a previously strained defence-industrial partnership with South Korea, following a quiet but consequential alignment between President Prabowo Subianto and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is scheduled to meet Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday, January 13, in Nara City, Japan, a week after his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Seoul seeks to carefully balance relations...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, has demanded a detailed “explanation” from South Korea over a drone that Pyongyang claims violated its airspace earlier this month, escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula even as both...
North Korea on Saturday accused South Korea of sending another drone into its airspace for surveillance purposes, a claim Seoul has firmly denied, escalating tensions on the heavily militarized peninsula. The North Korean military said it tracked a drone “moving...
Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s largest company, reported a record-breaking quarterly profit after global demand for AI-powered servers drove memory chip prices sharply higher. The tech giant posted a preliminary operating profit of 20 trillion won ($13.8 billion) for the...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Wednesday, January 7, that he had urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to play a more active role in curbing North Korea’s nuclear programme, arguing that a negotiated freeze on Pyongyang’s weapons of...
Korea Aerospace Industries’ reported statement that the Philippines has requested delivery of the KF-21 Boramae fighter between 2027 and 2029—following an anticipated contract signing in 2026—marks a decisive acceleration in Manila’s airpower modernisation. What was once a long-term aspiration has...
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