Prosecutors indicted the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) on Friday over the bungled response to the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon.
The indictment of SMPA chief Kim Kwang-ho came a year and three months after …
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui returned home Friday after a visit to Moscow that involved a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid deepening military cooperation between the two countries.
The delegation led by Choe arrived v…
South Korean stocks traded more than 1 percent higher late Friday morning, led by strong tech shares.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index had jumped 26.29 points, or 1.08 percent, to 2,466.33 as of 11:20 a.m.
Overnight, all three major …
The minor progressive Jinbo Party demanded Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol apologize and dismiss the head of the Presidential Security Service, a day after its lawmaker was carried out of an event by presidential security agents.
Presidential se…
South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. said Friday it has developed a multimodal large language model (MLLM) named Honeybee in a bid to expand its presence in the artificial intelligence market.
During an AI strategy meeting hosted by the Ministry of S…
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South Korea, the US and Japan staged their largest-ever joint naval exercise in international waters south of Jeju Island for three days through Wednesday, following Nort…
South Korea ranked fifth in the world in terms of military strength, while North Korea’s standing was at 36th, an annual military power index showed Friday.
South Korea had a firepower score of 0.1416 to stand at fifth out of 145 countries, accordin…
Air traffic in South Korea’s territorial airspace jumped 45 percent in 2023 from a year earlier on unleashed pent-up demand for travel following years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the transport ministry said Friday.
The number of airplanes that flew ov…
Main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to stop its missile provocations, saying it will only lead to further isolation of the regime and intensify the suffering of its people.
Lee, chairman of the Democratic Party…
Winter sports stars of the past, the present and the future for South Korea played significant roles in the opening ceremony of the country’s first Winter Youth Olympics here Friday.
The fourth edition of the youth competition kicked off in the east…