SEOUL, The health ministry said Thursday that it will fully expand telemedicine services and mobilize assistant nurses if a major association of trainee doctors pushes ahead with a nationwide strike in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical …
SEOUL, Hundreds of doctors took to the street nationwide Thursday to protest the government’s recent decision to dramatically hike the annual medical school admission quota.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced its decision last week to incre…
SEOUL, Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant mobile messenger app, said Thursday its net loss widened in the fourth quarter from a year earlier due to an increase in non-operating costs.
The company said in a regulatory filing it posted…
SEOUL, North Korea appears to be idolizing leader Kim Jong-un, modeling him after his grandfather and national founder Kim Il-sung, in an effort to strengthen internal unity amid prolonged economic difficulties, South Korea’s unification ministry said…
SEOUL, Seoul shares opened higher Thursday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 14.7 points, or 0.56 percent, to 2,635.12 in the first 15 minutes of trading.
Overnight, the U.S. sto…