SEOUL, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s barrage of bitter remarks against South Korea is an apparent sign of his pressing need to directly engage with the United States on Korean Peninsula issues and better maintain its regime amid economic woes, an…
SEOUL, South Korea’s exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products rose 8.1 percent in December from a year earlier mainly thanks to a recovery in global chip demand, government data showed Tuesday.
Outbound shipments of ICT pro…
SEOUL, South Korea’s exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products rose 8.1 percent in December from a year earlier mainly thanks to a recovery in global chip demand, government data showed Tuesday.
Outbound shipments of ICT pro…
SEOUL, More than 70 percent of South Koreans were aware of the country’s Animal Protection Act, a poll showed Tuesday, as animal welfare has gained growing attention.
The figure marks a significant rise from just 57.1 percent tallied in a survey car…
SEOUL, 11Street Co., a South Korean e-commerce company, said Tuesday it has filed a complaint with the anti-trust regulator over its bigger rival Coupang, Inc.’s alleged unfair practices.
New York-listed Coupang has recently released the comparison …
SEOUL, The combined operating profit for Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s leading automakers, is expected to have reached a record high of 27 trillion won (US$20.4 billion) last year, an estimate showed Tuesday.
The estimate by Yonhap …
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday presented letters of appointment to Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and Cho Tae-yong, South Korea’s new spy chief.
Yoon also awarded certificates of appointment to Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun and Ryu Chul-wh…
SEOUL, South Korea will join a U.S.-led multinational anti-submarine exercise in waters off Guam on Tuesday, the Navy said, in an effort to hone capabilities against underwater threats.
The Navy will deploy some 40 personnel and a P-3 maritime patro…
SEOUL, The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold talks in Seoul this week on North Korea’s latest military provocations amid its growing ties with Russia, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Kim Gunn, special repr…
SEOUL, Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said Tuesday the government will administer more than 65 percent of this year’s fiscal spending in the first half in a move to boost domestic demand and support vulnerable people.
“It would be far from easy for …