At least 154 people are dead after a Halloween party in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in Seoul, turned deadly, making for one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Korea since the 2014 Sewol ferry...

On Nov. 3, North Korea fired three unidentifiable ballistic missiles at the East Sea. On the previous day, over the course of 11 days, a total of 25 ballistic missiles were fired from Pyongyang, North...

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was tied up and attacked by an intruder inside his home on Oct. 28. The intruder repeatedly shouted “Where is Nancy?” during the home...

As Elon Musk enters his second week as chief executive of Twitter, the company faces major consequences as Musk has already fired top executives and has announced a plan to remove 75 percent of the company’s...

Korea’s electronics company Samsung Electronics appointed vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong as an executive chairman of the company on Oct. 27.  “I think there is an expectation for Lee to bring greater...

Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, resigned on Oct. 20 after only six weeks in office. This made her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. On Oct. 25, she was replaced by Rishi...

On Oct. 14, climate change activists threw tomato soup on the famous Van Gogh painting “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery before gluing their hands on the wall.  The protesters were Phoebe...

On Sept. 25, the first case of a body-packer, a smuggling technique in which drugs are stored in one’s body, was found dead in Yongsan-gu, a testament of increasing drug trafficking in South Korea. Later...

Take a moment and picture a soldier. Let me guess—tall, muscular guy in cargo pants?  This spring, SIS senior boys have begun receiving military enrollment letters to sign up for two years of cut-throat...

Months following Columbia University’s announcement of having published misleading data on its class size and faculty education, US News and World Report dropped the school from the no. 2 to the no....

Prices of hotels in Busan have been at an all-time high, with hotels demanding up to $1400 per night to maximize their profits off of BTS' immensely popular “Yet to Come” Busan concert. “I have...

Every October, the Sweden and Norway committee names six winners of prizes in a variety of  categories, including physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature, and peace work.  According...