SEOUL, Hiring of wage worker jobs in South Korea grew at a slower pace in the third quarter of 2023 amid an economic slowdown, and newly added paid employee jobs for people in their 40s fell for the first time in four years, data showed Wednesday.
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SEOUL, South Korea and the European Union have begun the second round of talks on a bilateral digital trade agreement in an effort to seek broader partnership in the digital domain, Seoul’s industry ministry said Wednesday.
The negotiation kicked off…
SEOUL, Hanwha Ocean Co. on Wednesday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 286 billion won (US$214.1 million), turning from a loss of 430.3 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating…
SEOUL, Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung urged trainee doctors Wednesday to return to work as they stayed away from the job for the second day as part of a collective resignation campaign protesting the government’s plan to increase medical school admis…
The financial risks prompted by the slowdown of the commercial real estate market in the US and elsewhere are now spilling over to South Korean banks at a worrying pace, suggesting that they are likely to incur great losses, partly due to their poor i…