A giant forest fire swept across swathes of South Korea Friday, as authorities declared a rare national disaster, deploying 900 fire engines and tens of thousands of personnel to bring it under control.

Seoul is always ranked high among the cities known for well-established public transportations. In 2017, it took a spot on the Lonely Planet as “Best in Travel 2017”. Boasting of the world’s best subway, the city is known for historic buildings as old as 2,000 years. There is no better way to visit these sites…

The two Koreas opened a hotline between their leaders Friday, Seoul's presidential office said, a week before a summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in in the Demilitarized Zone. The line links the presidential Blue House in Seoul with the Pyongyang office of the nuclear-armed North's State Affairs Commission,…