South Korea

[Domestic] : New COVID-19 cases registered about ten-thousand as the outbreak continues to stabilize.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Saturday that ten-thousand-55 infections were reported throughout Friday, similar to the day before.T...

[Politics] : The OECD has placed South Korea and Japan in the group of countries with the lowest fatalities from COVID-19 based on deaths per one million people.In a report released Thursday titled "Ready for the Next Crisis? Investing in Health Syste...

[Politics] : South Korea has pledged an additional 130 million dollar aid to support Ukraine as the country marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine.In a spokesperson statement on Friday, the foreign ministry said Seoul will continue to support Ukraine...

[Politics] : South Korea is reportedly reviewing a request by the U.S. to export artillery shells likely in support of the war against Russia.A government source said Friday that talks are under way after Washington made the request in hopes of importing ...

[Economy] : The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) lost 15-point-48 points, or zero-point-63 percent, on Friday to close the week at two-thousand-423-point-61.The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also fell, shedding four-point-40 points, or zero-point-56...

[Economy] : The state-run Korea Electric Power Corporation(KEPCO) recorded an operating loss of more than 30 trillion won last year.The company said in a regulatory filing on Friday that its operating loss came to 32-point-63 trillion won, or over 25 bill...

[Politics] : The floor leader of the minor opposition Justice Party has called on main opposition Democratic Party chairman Lee Jae-myung to give up his immunity from arrest and receive a court deliberation on his arrest warrant.In a speech in parliament ...

[Politics] : A motion seeking parliamentary consent to arrest main opposition Democratic Party(DP) chair Lee Jae-myung has been submitted to the National Assembly.This comes after prosecutors requested an arrest warrant for Lee last Thursday over his alle...

[Politics] : The main opposition Democratic Party(DP) has again slammed the prosecution's investigation into its chair Lee Jae-myung.In a Supreme Council meeting Friday, DP floor leader Park Hong-keun said that as party members earlier agreed that the...

[Sports] : The final 32 teams competing in this year's FIFA Women's World Cup have been determined.In a post on its website on Friday, the football governing body said the list of countries, up to 32 from the previous 24, has been finalized with t...

[Politics] : South Korea and Poland have agreed to conduct joint military exercises.According to the defense ministry in Seoul, minister Lee Jong-sup and his Polish counterpart, Mariusz Blaszczak, reached the agreement during talks in Warsaw on Thursday.T...

[Politics] : Former prosecutor Chung Sun-sin has been named as the new chief of the National Office of Investigation(NOI) overseeing investigative police officers nationwide.President Yoon Suk Yeol appointed Chung on Friday following the National Police A...

[Inter-Korea] : Anchor: Pyongyang has made fresh claims that it test-fired four strategic cruise missiles early Thursday, in an apparent retaliation against Seoul and Washington's table-top exercise on the regime's nuclear and missile threats the ...

[Culture] : A workshop on the Korean traditional painting known as "minhwa" recently took place at the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila.According to the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines(KCC), which co-hosted the event with the...

[International] : North Korea has warned the U.S. to remember that its continued hostilities and provocative practices against the regime despite repeated protests and warnings would be considered a declaration of war.The warning was carried in a statemen...

[Politics] : Anchor: There's good news and bad news for South Korean semiconductor manufacturers this year. Amid ongoing Sino-U.S. tensions, Washington is poised to enforce export controls on chip production in China. On the other hand, they may also ...

[Politics] : South Korea and the United States are considering the deployment of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula for the allies' combined drills next month.According to government sources in Seoul on Friday, talks are u...

[Politics] : The United States has strongly warned North Korea that the use of nuclear force would lead to the regime's demise, pledging to continue deploying its customized nuclear capabilities.The Defense Department issued the warning on Friday with...

[Domestic] : New COVID-19 cases registered in the ten-thousands on Friday amid a continued slowdown in the latest wave of infections.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Friday that ten-thousand-51 infections were reported throughout Th...

[Culture] : South Korean actor Yoo Ah-in, who previously tested positive for marijuana, has also tested positive for the intravenous anesthetic Propofol.According to the police on Thursday, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency was recently notified of the...

[International] : The United States will begin accepting applications for state subsidies worth 39 billion dollars from next week to encourage companies to build new or expand U.S. facilities.U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced the plan on Thu...

[Inter-Korea] : The unification ministry said that strained inter-Korean relations and COVID-19 led to an absence of exchanges between the North and South Korea over the past two years.According to the ministry on Friday, there were zero personnel exchang...

[Politics] : The European Union has strongly condemned recent missile launches by North Korea as acts that escalate military tensions in the region.EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a statement on behalf of EU member countries "strongly"...

[Politics] : Defense minister Lee Jong-sup said on Thursday that South Korea and Poland have formed a consensus on assistance for Ukraine.The minister made the remarks in a press briefing after talks with his Polish counterpart Mariusz Baszczak in Warsaw,...

[Politics] : South Korea and the United States conducted a tabletop exercise at the Pentagon on Wednesday to counter growing threats from North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said in a press briefing...

[Inter-Korea] : North Korea says that it conducted a strategic cruise missile launching drill on Thursday.According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Friday, the North's strategic cruise missile unit fired four Hwasal-2 s...

[Politics] : A meeting of South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers will not likely take place next week in India.South Korea's foreign minister Park Jin plans to attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting set for March 1 and 2 in New Delhi, but ...

[Culture] : South Korean K-pop sensation BTS ranked second on the 2022 Global Artist Chart by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry(IFPI).According to the IFPI on Thursday, BTS came in second on the chart for top global artists last ye...

[Politics] : Kim Byong-joon, the newly appointed acting chairman of the country's largest business lobby group, has vowed to break the link of collusion between politics and business.Kim made the pledge on Thursday in a press briefing right after he w...

[Politics] : Foreign minister Park Jin met with Ukraine's Ambassador to South Korea on Thursday and expressed his respect for the Ukrainian people overcoming the hardships of the ongoing war against Russia.According to Seoul's foreign ministry, Mi...

[Politics] : Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has again avoided acknowledging the 1923 massacre of ethnic Koreans in Japan that happened in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto EarthquakeAt a metropolitan assembly on February 21, cited by The Asahi Shimbun, w...

[Economy] : The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) rose 21-point-41 points, or zero-point-89 percent, on Thursday, to close the day at two-thousand-439-point-09.The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also rose, gaining four-point-77 points, or zero-point-6...

[Economy] : The average household income in South Korea rose four-point-one percent on-year in the fourth quarter but was outpaced by inflation.According to data from Statistics Korea, the average monthly household income nationwide came to four-point-83 ...

[Domestic] : Students in South Korea will be utilizing digital textbooks that incorporate artificial intelligence from 2025 in line with a growing need for customized classes amid a shrinking student population.According to the education ministry on Thurs...

[Economy] : The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy plans to strengthen incentives to attract foreign direct investment(FDI) in high-tech industries.The ministry unveiled its plans on Thursday during a meeting in Seoul on facilitating such investment t...

[Economy] : The government has set this year's export target at 685 billion U.S. dollars.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy revealed the goal during an export strategy meeting chaired by President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday, raising the target ...

[Economy] : Anchor: The central bank took a breather from its 17-month rate-hike trend amid signs of a prolonged economic downturn, deciding to freeze the key interest rate at three-point-five percent. The bank also revised down the forecasts for both gro...

[Economy] : The government plans to introduce superships and create new routes as part of efforts to increase the nation's maritime transport capacity by 2027.The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries unveiled the plan on Thursday during a meeting on the e...

[Domestic] : A trial for the former head of Ssangbangwool Group accused of remitting eight million dollars to North Korea began on Thursday without the defendant present.The Suwon District Court held the preparatory hearing for Kim Seong-tae on charges of...

[Politics] : Main opposition Democratic Party(DP) leader Lee Jae-myung on Thursday slammed the prosecution for redirecting investigations into allegations of corruption against him after the Yoon Suk Yeol administration took office last May.At a press con...

[Economy] : Bank of Korea(BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong said Thursday's benchmark interest rate freeze that came after a near 18-month hike trend should not be taken as an end to the hike policy.Speaking to reporters following the BOK's rate-setti...

[Economy] : After bringing an end to an 18-month rate-hike trend on Thursday, the Bank of Korea's(BOK) rate-setting monetary policy board left the door open to a possible hike in the future.According to a resolution document from the latest meeting, t...

[Economy] : The Bank of Korea(BOK) revised down this year's real growth forecast by a tenth of a percentage point to one-point-six percent on Thursday.The central bank, which had projected growth of one-point-seven-percent and inflation at three-point...

[International] : The ethnology of Koreans residing in the United States has been established as a subject in the U.S. secondary education system.According to the South Korean consulate general in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the Anaheim Union High School Di...

[Politics] : The Bank of Korea(BOK) has maintained its benchmark interest rate at three-point-five percent to deal with the economic slowdown.In the central bank's rate-setting monetary policy meeting on Thursday, the BOK decided to freeze the key rat...

[Domestic] : New COVID-19 cases registered in the ten-thousands on Thursday amid a continued slowdown in the latest wave of infections.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Thursday that ten-thousand-845 infections were reported througho...

[Economy] : Gasoline prices surpassed diesel prices for the first time in eight months.According to oil price portal Opinet run by the Korea National Oil Corporation, the average price of gas at pumps nationwide marked one-thousand-579-point-28 won per li...

[Inter-Korea] : Foreign minister Park Jin reportedly said that the U.S. extended deterrence is the only way South Korea can effectively protect itself from the threats of North Korea.Minister Park made the remarks on Wednesday in an interview with CNN, ca...

[Domestic] : The nation confirmed three additional cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza(AI) on Wednesday.Authorities said that one of the cases was confirmed at an egg farm in Yeoncheon in Gyeonggi Province and the other at a chic...

[Politics] : The United States has said that North Korea's continued missile provocations and its nuclear and missile programs are destabilizing to peace in the region, including for China, repeating calls for the North to engage in dialogue.In a pres...