Rival parties once again failed to reach an agreement Thursday on a bill that would grant small businesses an additional two-year grace period from the workplace safety law penalizing employers for serious industrial accidents.
The main opposition D…
Boats will run in the Han River like buses starting in October on a seven-stop route between the northwestern district of Magok and the southeastern district of Jamsil, the Seoul city government said Thursday.
The Hangang River Bus service
An appellate court on Thursday ordered a lower court to review its dismissal of a damages suit filed by about 80 South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor against Japanese companies.
The Seoul High Court issued the retrial
The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) said Thursday it will seek to bury railways in Seoul and other major cities underground, and develop the newly created overland into an environmentally friendly residential complex.
Party Chairman Lee Jae-my…
Complaints filed against AliExpress, the e-commerce retail platform of China’s Alibaba Group, in South Korea quintupled in 2023 from a year earlier, a local consumers’ association said Thursday.
The number of complaints submitted to the Consumers Un…
South Korean stocks rose more than 1 percent late Thursday morning despite overnight Wall Street losses, as local blue chips gained momentum as the nation’s exports rose for the fourth month.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index climbed
SK Bioscience Co. on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter net income of 4.2 billion won (US$3.1 million), down 85 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted an operating loss of 8.4 billion
South Korea will join a large-scale U.S.-led multinational air exercise in Guam this month in an effort to strengthen operational capabilities with other nations, the Air Force said Thursday.
The annual Cope North exercise will take place at the
South Korea picked up two gold medals on the final day of the Winter Youth Olympics on home soil Thursday, producing a pair of double gold medalists in the process.
South Korea captured the gold medal in figure skating’s
Cuba’s new ambassador to North Korea has begun his duties, according to the North’s state media Thursday, as countries having friendly ties with North Korea have ramped up diplomatic activities in the secretive regime since the opening of its