SEOUL, Only 3 out of 10 teenagers view marriage as essential, less than half the rate from a decade ago, a report showed Wednesday.
The National Youth Policy Institute surveyed 7,718 elementary, middle and high school students nationwide from
WASHINGTON, The U.S. mission to the United Nations called Tuesday for “all” U.N. member states to prevent any offer of financial services that could help North Korea’s prohibited weapons programs, following a report that Russia has allowed the partia…
SEOUL, South Korea will launch cloud services using indigenous quantum computers and begin test flights of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles in Seoul metropolitan areas this year, the finance ministry said Wednesday.
They are part of the major proje…
SEOUL, Japan cannot unilaterally develop the continental shelf in the East China Sea without South Korea’s consent even if the bilateral agreement on the joint development expires, a foreign ministry official in Seoul said Wednesday.
The official’s …
SEOUL, Seoul shares opened lower Wednesday following hotter-than-estimated U.S. inflation data.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 39.58 points, or 1.49 percent, to 2,610.06 in the first 15 minutes of trading.
Overnight, t…
Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP)
1-year TB 3.454 3.417 +3.7
2-year TB 3.493 3.430 +6.3
3-year TB 3.425 3.353 +7.2
10-year TB 3.502 3.453 +4.9
2-year MSB 3.465 3.397 +6.8
3-year CB (AA-) 4.141 4.074 +6.7
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MOSCOW, North Korea’s ruling party chief delegate has held talks with Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Russian media said, amid deepening bilateral ties in the military and other sectors.
Kim Su-gil, an alternate member of the politi…
SEOUL, A Seoul court sentenced the scandal-ridden former fiance of Olympic fencing medalist Nam Hyun-hee to 12 years in prison on Wednesday on fraud and forgery charges.
The 28-year-old former fiance, Jeon Cheong-jo, was charged with swindling a tot…
SEOUL, Grand Korea Leisure Co. on Wednesday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 1.7 billion won (US$1.3 million), swinging from a loss of 8.9 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted
WASHINGTON, North Korea could undertake localized provocations this year, such as suddenly occupying a South Korean border island, a former senior Seoul official said Tuesday, amid concerns over the possibility of the North’s saber-rattling ahead of …