South Korea and the Netherlands held working-level diplomatic talks Friday on disarmament and nonproliferation issues, including North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.
Youn Jong-kwon, director general…
North Korea said Friday it has conducted a firing drill involving super-large multiple rocket launchers in a bid to demonstrate its resolve to stage a preemptive strike against South Korea, if provoked.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the…
The top diplomats of South Korea and Vietnam held talks Friday on ways to boost substantive cooperation in such areas as security, trade, investment and supply chains, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.
The talks between Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and…
The science ministry said Friday it has ordered Kakao Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, to rectify its operation system to improve the stability of its service following recent disruptions.
The ministry called on K…
The health ministry said Friday it will provide more financial support for trainee doctors and begin a trial operation to reduce their working hours amid protracted walkouts prompted by a plan that boosted the number of medical students.
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Applications for the 4th Hinzpeter Awards, which commemorates late German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter, the first western reporter to send out footage of the bloody crackdown on the Gwangju people’s pro-democracy uprising of May 1980, will be accepted…
President Yoon Suk Yeol held talks with Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio on Friday to discuss ways to boost trade and investment between the two countries, the presidential office said.
Bio was in Seoul to attend the South
Bhc chicken, South Korea’s largest chicken franchise by sales, said Friday it will open eight bhc chicken stores in the United States this year as part of its expansion strategy.
Bhc chicken has recently opened one of the eight
Banks’ loan rate slightly fell in April, as the central bank has frozen its key rate for more than a year amid still-high inflation, data showed Friday.
The average lending rate of banks applied to new loans last month
The United States has no plans to forward-deploy nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula, a State Department spokesperson said Thursday, amid a resurgent debate over the idea of Washington redeploying tactical nuclear arms to Korea for deterrence aga…