South Korea

Typhoon Jangmi, the season's fifth typhoon, moved closer to the country's southern resort island of Jeju on Monday while the country's first monsoon season to extend into mid-August in decades showed no signs of letting up. Rain was forecast f...

In 1973, South Korean president Park Chung-hee introduced the Minor Offences Act which mandated limits on the length of men's hair and women's skirts. Women suspected of wearing a skirt or dress that finished 17 centimeters or more above their kne...

KB and Shinhan are speeding up their drive to clinch more partnerships with non-banking players to obtain massive datasets, in their bid to take the lead in the data-driven financial paradigm shift. The moves come ahead of the introduction of the governme...

South Korea has been leading the way in showing the world how to deal with the coronavirus when it comes to football. The K-League was the first major domestic football competition of any standing (apologies to Taiwan and Turkmenistan) to restart after th...

The United States has not yet proposed a "new method of calculation," as required by North Korea for the process of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Chairman Kim Jong-un seems to be assessing that the United States is not able to meet two...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) will hold an online press conference every month to share updates on COVID-19 with people across the continent, the African Union (AU) said last week....

Unemployment benefits paid out in July hit a new record high, as the local job market continues to suffer from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, data from the labor ministry showed Monday. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the amount p...

Lebanon's information minister resigned on Sunday as the country grapples with the aftermath of the devastating blast that ripped through the capital and raised public anger to new levels....

Insurers are rushing to sell their buildings ahead of the introduction of new accounting standards....

The story comes right out of a Dan Brown mystery thriller in which Vatican secrets are targeted by State sponsored computer hackers. Yet according to cyber security sources, the intrusion into sensitive Vatican diplomatic traffic is not fiction, but a col...

North Korea's ruling party has delivered special aid packages of food and medical equipment to residents of Kaesong, near the border with the South, after imposing a lockdown there due to COVID-19 concerns, state media said on Sunday....

COVID-19 infections traced to a church have spread to Namdaemun Market, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Seoul, according to health authorities, Monday. This is renewing concerns over mass infections while the nation's number of new case...

Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Korea before the end of this year, sources said Monday....

Actor Yeo Jin-goo is set to make a small-screen comeback with JTBC's new series "Monster" (direct translation) since the fantasy drama "Hotel del Luna" last year. The actor's agency JANUS Entertainment said he had confirmed the lea...

Heavy rainfall is wreaking havoc on the country in this persisting monsoon season, causing severe loss of life and property damage. The season which began June 24 will likely continue through the week, setting a new record over 2013's monsoon which la...

The Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service (COMWEL) has recognized the case of a 40-something Coupang employee surnamed Jeon - who was infected with COVID-19 at the online retailer's logistics center in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province - as an in...

TikTok is one of the most trending social media platforms among young generations in Korea as KPOP stars have also been taking part in TikTok challenges such as rapper Zico's #AnySongChallenge and EXO Baekhyun's #CandyChallenge, and more. The app ...

China on Monday announced unspecified sanctions against 11 U.S. politicians and heads of organizations promoting democratic causes, including Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have already been singled out by Beijing....

Korea's public human resources management led by the Ministry of Personnel Management has been garnering worldwide attention as the nation's response to the COVID-19 outbreak has been praised by a number of international health experts and media f...

Actors Jin Goo and Gong Seung-yeon will host the opening ceremony of the upcoming Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF), which will kick off Aug. 13 in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province....

YG Entertainment - one of the "Big 3" music powerhouses in Korea along with SM and JYP - has at last opened its treasure chest. It debuted boy band TREASURE on Aug. 7, about four years after the launch of K-pop heavyweight BLACKPINK in 2016....

South Korea's public health authorities said Monday they have found three new mutated genome sequences of the novel coronavirus among imported cases. Genetic mutations were detected to "spike protein," the major surface protein of the virus, f...

MIAMI (AFP) - Portland's Damian Lillard poured in 51 points against a Philadelphia team missing injured stars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, powering the Trail Blazers to a 124-121 NBA victory Sunday....

"Japan should change stance on compensation issue"...

After a stifling hot July that saw 25 days of 90-degree-plus weather _ breaking a record that stood for nearly a century and a half _ August swept into Maryland with tornadoes and torrential rain from Tropical Storm Isaias. While severe weather is not a n...

My humble career in the tourism industry has given me the opportunity to experience some of the world's most dynamic tourism markets including Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and New Zealand, and exotic places such as Bangladesh and Mongolia....

LS Group founding family members have transferred 33 billion won worth of stocks to their relatives, taking advantage of low stock prices amid the pandemic, a move seen by many as efforts to drastically reduce the government's imposition of a gift tax...

The ruling bloc is reviewing the option of introducing a fourth extra budget, as many regions have been hit hard by weeks of heavy rain. It signals a change from its earlier stance which was not to seek any more supplementary budgets as the government has...

South Korea's new coronavirus infections fell below 30 on Monday as imported cases slowed, but church-traced infections continued to strain the country's anti-virus fight. The country identified an additional 28 virus cases, including 17 local inf...

China Taiping Insurance is facing a legal battle with Shinhan Bank and Arumdree Asset Management over its refusal to pay a 24 billion won ($20 million) insurance claim submitted by the latter, according to industry officials, Monday....

The second season of tvN's hit crime thriller series "Stranger," slated to air on Aug. 15, will premiere overseas through Netflix. The streaming platform announced that the series will be available right after the network broadcast each week i...

South Korea's environment ministry said Sunday that it will revamp a subsidy scheme for electric vehicles (EVs), with the current proposal centering on excluding high-priced EVs from the subsidy recipients....

Don't look now, but here come the champions....

A year has passed since SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus became the world's first to "commercialize" their fifth-generation (5G) networks; and since then SKT has managed to exceed the 3 million subscriber mark. Despite the continuous increase in th...

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Typhoon Jangmi, the season's first typhoon to land here, arrived at the southern coastal area on Monday afternoon, keeping the country on alert over possible damage following the deadly downpours that recently battered the central region. The typhoon ...

The world is getting warmer every day. The Korea Times also mentioned the boom of stick insects and gypsy moths as an effect of the warming climate in Korea. Climate change has become one of the critical issues nowadays....

It has been almost customary for politicians to visit regions damaged by natural disasters to receive briefings from local government heads and engage in some recovery work. Such practices - and subsequent media coverage - have sparked controversy over th...

The business sentiment of small and micro businesses in South Korea improved in the second quarter, although it remained lower than the pre-pandemic level. A survey conducted by the Korea Federation of Credit Guarantee Foundations showed Monday that...

Kim Kwang-hyun seems to have no choice but to wait a while longer until he can start for the St. Louis Cardinals. Kim was scheduled to face the Pittsburgh Pirates in one of a three-game series scheduled early this week, but the series has been postponed d...

[Politics] : South Korea's daily COVID-19 cases have bounced back to over 30 amid growing clusters linked to Russian vessels and church meetings. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(KCDC) said on Tuesday that 34 people were newly diag...

Korea is seeing the biggest emigration wave since the 2008 global financial crisis. According to the Foreign Ministry on Monday, 1,590 Koreans moved overseas last year, up from a low of 273 in 2015. Their numbers started to surge in 2017 when some 1,294 K...

BUSAN -- More seafarers on a Russia-flagged ship docked in the southern port city of Busan were confirmed to have been infected with the new coronavirus, health authorities said Tuesday. Four additional Indonesian sailors on the fishing vessel have...

SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- Indian carmaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. will give up its s......

India's Mahindra Group has decided to reduce its majority stake in Korean SUV-maker Ssangyong. Mahindra managing director Pawan Goenka said in a virtual press conference in Mumbai on Aug. 7 that the Indian automaker "is in dialogue with investors ...

South Korea's new coronavirus cases bounced back to above 30 on Tuesday, as an uptick in church-traced infections shows no signs of letup. The country identified an additional 34 virus cases, including 23 domestic infections, raising the total casel...

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South Korean shares opened sharply higher Tuesday, led by an advance by major tech firms and chemicals makers. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 20.80 points, or 0.87 percent, to 2,355.11 in the first 15 minutes of trading...