Visa, DealMe to introduce cross-border instalment payment services, offering Vietnamese travellers flexible payment options in South Korea

Under the envisioned plan, Korea will ship around 20 K9 howitzers to Vietnam, which would make Hanoi the 10th country outside of Seoul to acquire the weapons systems, according to the sources. South Korea has so far shipped the K9 to Australia, Egypt ...

South Korea and Vietnam are negotiating a contract to support the Vietnam People's Army's (VPA's) procurement of Hanwha Aerospace's K9 155 mm/52 calibre

A man in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta has been arrested for defrauding 31 individuals out of more than VND3 billion ($118,437) with promises of employment in South Korea.

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is a traditional Asian celebration that has been observed in for thousands of years. Every winter, Asian communities around the world ring in the Lunar New Year with carnivals, food, family gatherings, parades and more.

A South Korean appellate court has upheld a ruling requiring the government to compensate a Vietnamese survivor of the 1968 Quang Nam massacre, marking a historic acknowledgment of war atrocities.

South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense hosted a defense cooperation meeting with the United Kingdom’s defense export agency, in line with the countries' joint efforts to develop opportunities in defense exports to a third country.

Launched in December 1986, Vietnam’s “reform” era (đổi mới) came to an end in August 2024. Domestic political events in the ensuing months ushered the country into a new era, although the coming period may turn out to be a Gramscian interregnum, when “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”

A person’s zodiac is determined by the year and the animal they are born under, and it’s believed to influence their personality, career, relationships, and fortunes. According to this cycle, 2025 is the year of the snake and children born through this year will be snakes.

South Korea’s beleaguered President Yoon Suk-yeol has now formally been charged with insurrection and will stand trial. Yoon remains in office though formal duties have been suspended. He was arrested

The global demand for South Korean rice cakes has surged, leading to a record-breaking export value last year. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT),

Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost.