Day: October 16, 2024

South Koreans voted Wednesday to elect the education chief of Seoul and four local government heads, with the result expected to serve as a litmus test of public sentiment since the April general elections.

Up for grabs in Wednesday’s by-elections

Expectations are rising that the South Korean government will take follow-up measures in the wake of Friday’s much-anticipated cut in interest rates by the Bank of Korea.

The BOK’s move, marking the first pivot in 38 months, came as the

Today’s by-elections may be small in scale, focusing on local government positions and the Seoul educational office chief, but they carry significant weight. With President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration nearing the halfway mark of its single, five-ye…

Senior diplomats from South Korea, the United States and Japan were set to meet in Seoul on Wednesday amid rising tensions following North Korea’s destruction of roads to the South and accusations of drone flights by the South over its

North Korea on Tuesday destroyed two sections of the roads linked to the Gyeongui Line and the Donghae Line, which connect South and North Korea. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the North used explosives to demolish the two

South Korea added more than 100,000 jobs for the third consecutive month in September, data showed Wednesday.

The number of employed people came to 28.84 million last month, up 144,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by