SEOUL, Seoul shares extended gains late Tuesday morning on the back of automobile and logistics shares.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) added 14.16 points, or 0.51 percent, to 2,778.89 as of 11:20 a.m.
Top carmaker Hyundai
SEOUL, Top economic policymakers of South Korea and Japan agreed Tuesday to take “appropriate actions” to curb excessive volatility of their currencies and enhance bilateral and multilateral cooperation on broader economic, financial and social issue…
SEOUL, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo called Tuesday for providing special care to the families of 18 foreign workers who were killed in a battery plant fire in Hwaseong the previous day.
Twenty-two people were killed in the fire at
Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP)
1-year TB 3.346 3.343 +0.3
2-year TB 3.260 3.258 +0.2
3-year TB 3.201 3.194 +0.7
10-year TB 3.271 3.264 +0.7
2-year MSB 3.259 3.258 +0.1
3-year CB (AA-) 3.662 3.656 +0.6
91-day CD
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday denounced North Korea’s sending of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea and its military cooperation with Russia as “anachronistic” acts that go against the progress in history.
Yoon made the remark in an
SEOUL, The military conducted live-fire drills of homegrown Chunmoo multiple rocket launch systems (MRLS) Tuesday, the Army said, to sharpen precision strike capabilities and bolster readiness against North Korean threats.
Some 190 troops participat…
SEOUL, Retail sales in South Korea rose by 8.8 percent on-year in May, driven by promotional events launched by online shopping platforms, data showed Tuesday.
The combined sales of 25 major offline and online retailers amounted to 16.3 trillion
SEOUL, After portraying a disturbing antagonist in Netflix’s Korean original series “A Killer Paradox,” actor Lee Hee-jun sought a change of pace. This led him to his next project, the black comedy horror “Handsome Guys.”
“Even though our experience…
SEOUL, Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has completed building infrastructure to produce faster and more efficient chips for artificial intelligence (AI) computing.
The infrastructure for so-called compute express link (CXL) technology was bu…
SEOUL, South Korea and the United States kicked off joint drills aimed at strengthening their combined logistics capabilities earlier this week, Seoul’s military said Tuesday.
The five-day combined distribution exercise got under way Monday in multi…