South Korea’s new Industry Minister Bang Moon-kyu on Wednesday vowed all-out effort to prop up exports as a key economic growth engine and to restore the ecosystem of the country’s nuclear power generation industry, his office said.Bang made the pledg…
Pharmaceutical firm HLB Co. said Wednesday it plans to list its shares on the main bourse, defecting from the secondary KOSDAQ market.HLB has signed a contract with Korea Investment & Securities Co. to move to the Korea Exchange, the company said …
A municipal councilor in the city of Gimpo, west of Seoul, was found dead on a street in the city Wednesday, police said.The 47-year-old council member of Gimpo, affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Party, wasn’t breathing and had no pulse w…
South Korea’s public account deficit hit an all-time high in 2022 largely due to an increase in COVID-19 handouts to small merchants and a rise in commodity prices, central bank data showed Wednesday.The country’s public account shortfall came to 95.8…
Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho on Wednesday stressed that the consumption of seafood will be safe, despite lingering concerns about Japan’s release of treated radioactive water into the ocean.Choo made the remark as he visited a seafood market in Seou…
South Korea began observing military dealings between North Korea and Russia “several months” before the two countries’ leaders met in Russia’s Far East last week to discuss a suspected arms deal, a South Korean presidential official said Tuesday (U.S…
