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RESTAURANT OF THE WEEKThe 100 Food Truck offers great views, great food

• Wife of ex-Korean American Rep. Jay Kim questioned in luxury bag gift investigation

  Prosecutors have questioned the wife of former Korean American U.S. House Rep. Jay Chang Joon Kim as part of an ongoing investigation into a luxury bag gift scandal involving the...

  
• Some experts suspect careless driving as cause of deadly car crash

  Suspicions are deepening over the cause of Monday's deadly car crash that claimed nine lives and injured four others, as some experts do not rule out the possibility of careless ...

  
• Bar owners, employees, including public servant, referred to prosecution for spreading indecent flyers

  Police have referred a group of bar owners and employees, including a public servant, to the prosecution for distributing indecent flyers on the streets, including areas close to...

  

Lifestyle

INTERVIEWJeju's botanical brewer Ha Min-ju turns local produce into unique spirits

• Football star Hwang bakes red bean buns with Lotte Hotels & Resorts for local charity

  Lotte Hotels & Resorts held a charity event with Wolverhampton Wonderers’ South Korean Winger Hwang Hee-chan to bake and sell red bean buns at a local cooking studio in Seoul, Mo...

  
• Korea's tourism industry urges gov't to revise K-ETA rules on Thai visitors

  Korea should adopt more detailed guidelines for immigration authorities to effectively identify potential illegal immigrants among large numbers of incoming tourists, which is es...

  
• Mission to uncover centuries-old shipwreck, treasures off Korea's southwest coast

  GUNSAN, North Jeolla Province - On a balmy summer morning, June 26, a scratchy radio voice echoed across a compact barge anchored in the waters off Gunsan, North Jeolla Province.

  

World

China remains onlooker, losing influence amid deepening NK-Russia ties: White House official

• US on 'disinflationary path,' but more data needed before rate cuts: Fed chair

  The U.S. is back on a 'disinflationary path,' Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Tuesday, but policymakers need more data before cutting interest rates to verify that re...

  
• Hurricane Beryl rips through open waters after devastating the southeast Caribbean

  Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after earlier making landfa...

  
• To migrate or not? Some Venezuelans pinning that decision on July's election

  Daniel Briseno lives in a poor part of Maracaibo, Venezuela's once-rich oil city, where he checks almost daily to see if a letter confirming he has permission to move to the Unit...