SEOUL, South Korean teen figure skater Kim Hyun-gyeom captured the men’s singles gold medal at the Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics on home ice Monday, becoming the first male from the country to win a figure skating title at the quadrennial youth event…
SEOUL, Seoul shares climbed more than 1 percent late Monday morning as institutions and foreign investors scooped up tech, bio and other blue chips.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index had climbed 1.19 percent, or 29.44 points, to 2,508….
SEOUL, Former ruling party leader Lee Jun-seok on Monday proposed having women serve in the military first if they want to apply for jobs as police officers or firefighters.
Lee, now leader of the newly created Reformative Conservative Party, made t…
SEOUL, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. on Monday reported its 2023 net loss of 36.3 billion won (US$27.2 million), remaining in the red compared with the previous year.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating loss of…
SEOUL, Lotte Energy Materials Corp. on Monday reported its 2023 net loss of 49.3 billion won (US$36.9 million), shifting from a profit of 49 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 12 billion won in operati…
SEOUL, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. on Monday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 7.8 billion won (US$5.8 million), turning from a loss of 43.9 billion won a year earlier.
Operating income for the October-December period was 15.2 billion, compare…
SEOUL, South Korea’s point man on North Korea said Monday that designating a day for North Korean defectors would not only be meaningful for those who have settled in South Korea but also those living in the North.
Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho m…
SEOUL, K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s Lisa and boy group Stray Kids have performed at a famous French charity concert, sources in the music industry circle said Monday.
The sources said the artists were featured at the Le Gala des Pieces Jaunes concer…
SEOUL, South Korea on Monday restated its hope for a resolution after a Japanese local government began removing a memorial stone for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor at a public park.
Japanese media reported the removal of the memoria…
SEOUL, Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea’s biggest biannual fashion show, will kick off next week for a five-day run to showcase 21 Korean fashion houses, officials said Monday.
The fashion week for the 2024 fall-winter season will run from Thursday t…