The head of the country’s financial regulator vowed continued efforts Wednesday to quickly address risks related to real estate project financing (PF) loans.
Lee Bok-hyun, governor of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), stressed that such effor…
Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday sales of its latest Galaxy S series smartphones have exceeded 1 million units in South Korea within just 28 days of their launch.
The Galaxy S24 series, which was unveiled on Jan. 16, reached
South Korean stocks started nearly flat Wednesday as investors took a wait-and-see approach ahead of key economic indicators set to be released in the United States this week.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) edged up 0.78
It all starts with a head-to-head meeting
Thursday is the deadline the government set for doctors to return to their hospitals. But trainee doctors still refuse to return. If this stalemate continues, catastrophe cannot be avoided. In an emergency
Preventing unnecessary collapse
Gov’t, doctors should both step back, compromise
After more than a week of a mass walkout by junior doctors protesting against a rise in medical school admissions quotas, the government has issued a call for their
Young doctors at crossroads
Medical professors expected to mediate between their students, government
Some 80.6 percent of the nation’s trainee doctors have tendered their resignation, and 72.7 percent, or about 9,000, have left the hospitals in pr…
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s leading e-commerce company, said Wednesday its fourth-quarter net profit more than doubled from a year earlier and shifted to an annual profit for the first time since its foundation on increased subscribers and growth in
A mass walkout by trainee doctors is approaching a deadline set by the government to return to work, as medical services have been crippled with both the government and junior doctors showing little signs of backing down.
About 9,000
The U.S. Defense Department has started a process to solicit industry feedback on its pursuit of a defense procurement agreement with South Korea to allow easier access to each other’s market amid growing security uncertainties from North Korean thre…
The foreign ministry on Wednesday urged caution against increasing cases of employment fraud in the “Golden Triangle” region straddling Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.
The ministry urged South Koreans to take extra caution in the area as cases involving…