Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul will visit the United States next week for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss bilateral ties and North Korea’s threats, Cho’s office said Thursday.
The talks — scheduled for Wednesday — will ma…
Ryu Hyun-jin is coming home.
The Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Thursday that they have signed Ryu, a former major league All-Star, to an eight-year contract worth 17 billion won (US$12.8 million). The deal makes him…
Civil servants who deliberately commit drug-related crimes will be removed from office even if they are first-time offenders, the personnel management ministry said Thursday.
The no-tolerance principle was included in the ministry’s major policy plan…
Major general hospitals in Seoul and elsewhere struggled to cope with patients Thursday, as thousands of trainee doctors left their worksites for the third day in a row in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students.
A confrontation bet…
The government decided Thursday to execute 398 trillion won (US$299.47 billion) of budget in the first half of 2024 to prop up weak domestic demand, the finance ministry said.
It marks the largest amount set aside for the early budget execution schem…
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Government should explain in greater detail how W10tr will be spent on medical reform
Nearly 9,000 trainee doctors at hospitals across South Korea have offered to resign or have stopped working in protest of the government’s pla…
