Day: June 17, 2024

SEOUL, Former first lady Kim Jung-sook, the wife of ex-President Moon Jae-in, on Monday filed a defamation suit against a ruling party lawmaker over alleging Kim misappropriated taxpayer money to fund her solo trip to India in 2018.

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SEOUL, Naver Corp., South Korea’s biggest internet portal operator, on Monday unveiled a proactive scheme designed to assess and manage risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its efforts to safely develop and use the fast-evolv…

SEOUL, Patients were denied appointments and sent home without treatment as a majority of doctors at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) and its three affiliates went on an indefinite walkout, demanding reconsideration of the medical school quo…

SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Monday to make every effort to prepare emergency measures against an escalating doctors’ walkout, his office said.

Yoon gave the instruction during a weekly meeting with the pr…

SEOUL, The average lending rate of major banks in South Korea rose slightly from a month earlier in May, ending five consecutive months of decline, data showed Monday.

COFIX, or the Cost of Funds Index, a benchmark lending rate

SEOUL, The health ministry referred a major lobby group for doctors to the antitrust regulator Monday for a probe into allegedly forcing community doctors and other medical staff to join this week’s planned walkout against the government’s medical re…

SEOUL, The number of exchanges between high-level officials from North Korea and Russia has reached a record high this year, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, marking another indication of the deepening ties between the two nations.

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SEOUL, Hanjin Logistics Corp., the logistics unit of airline conglomerate Hanjin Group, said Monday it will add seven new branches in Europe by 2027 to gain a bigger share in the local logistics markets.

Hanjin Logistics currently operates 37

SEOUL, Prosecutors on Monday requested an arrest warrant for two suspects behind a fake interview published in 2022 allegedly to discredit then presidential candidate Yoon Suk Yeol.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office charged Kim Man-bae, …