Television in South Korea

Netflix shared exclusive new details for the second season of its runaway hit South Korean thriller series "Squid Game" on June 17, as part of its Tudum Global Fan Event in Brazil.

The creator of Netflix's "Squid Game" says the hit TV series will be back for a season two, even though most TV shows in South Korea run for just one season. Due to the show's global success, Hwang Dong-hyuk said, "I almost feel like you leave us no choice."

These days, sitting on the balcony is as close as I can get to going out. My days are limited to eating at home, sitting on the balcony at home, working at home and distracting myself at home. The reason being that I have been tested for the new coronavirus, Covid-19, and must patiently await the results while staying at home.

The number of visitors to Greece's famed archaeological sites and museums rose by 18.2 percent in May this year compared to last, official figures published on Friday showed.

According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), free-admission visits grew 20.2 percent year-on-year, while takings from tickets increased 18.7 percent.

Gallery 7 in Athens presents "Form and Content," a group show featuring abstract works by five pairs of Greek and Asian artists - Man Hee Kim (Korea) and Shin In Soo (Korea), Sarantis Gagas (Greece) and Dong Do Jun (Korea), Lin Shih Pao (Taiwan) and Tina Karageorgi (Greece), Jin Soo Kim (Korea) and Yiannis Christakos (Greece), and Babis Vekris (Greece) and Ho Yoon Shin (Korea).

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Nov. 4 said the scandal involving her long-time confidante Choi Soon-Sil was "all my fault," and agreed to be questioned in a formal corruption probe. 

In a highly personal televised address to the nation, while accepting that the scandal was her fault, she denied reports linking her and Choi to a religious cult.