GWANGJU, A group of South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor won another damages suit against a Japanese company Thursday.
The Gwangju District Court in the southwestern city of Gwangju ruled in favor of 15 bereaved families of 11
SEOUL, Rival parties nominated dozens of candidates on Thursday to run in the April 10 general elections, including political heavyweights, like Won Hee-ryong, a former land minister, who is forecast to compete against opposition leader Lee Jae-myung….
SEOUL, South Korean football officials on Thursday recommended the dismissal of Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach of the men’s national team on Thursday after the country’s disappointing semifinal exit at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup….
SEOUL, The South Korean football federation held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the future of the beleaguered men’s national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
The National Team Committee of the Korea Football Association (KFA) met at the KFA headqu…
SEOUL, A nationwide strike by doctors is unlikely to be realized, the health ministry said Thursday, though trainee doctors and medical school students have moved to take collective action against medical school enrollment quota hikes.
Doctors have w…
SEOUL, Family DNA samples of more than half of the South Korean troops killed and unaccounted for in the 1950-53 Korean War have been collected as part of efforts to recover their remains, the defense ministry said Thursday.
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SEOUL, The number of teenagers caught for drug-related charges in Seoul spiked to 235 last year from 48 a year earlier, police data showed Thursday.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency released the data during a seminar held jointly with the
SEOUL, A group of activist funds have called for Samsung CandT Corp., the de facto holding company of South Korea’s Samsung Group, to enhance shareholder value at a general meeting next month, the company said Thursday.
Five activist funds, including…
SEOUL, South Korea’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba will likely deal a “blow” to North Korea, given the close brotherly ties Pyongyang and Havana have maintained for decades, a senior presidential official said Thursday.
Years of sec…
SEOUL, The average lending rate of major banks in South Korea for home-backed loans dropped for a second consecutive month in January, data showed Thursday.
COFIX, or the Cost of Funds Index, a benchmark lending rate for mortgage loans, came