Ask players or even the manager for the LG Twins to pick their team’s MVP for the first half of this Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season, and, to a man, they will point to sophomore reliever You Young-chan.
It’s not just that the right-hander h…
In South Korea, the two main pillars of power are the National Assembly and the prosecution, with President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration often referred to as “republic of prosecutors.” On Tuesday, the Assembly-dominating opposition Democratic Party…
Political retaliation for retaliation’s sake
The motion submitted by the Democratic Party (DP) to impeach four prosecutors dumbfounds us. The majority party pressures them to quit their jobs for totally unreasonable grounds. The motion is aimed at r…
North Korea on Friday stressed the need for swift and accurate weather forecasts, as heavy rain likely to fall during the summer monsoon season could seriously affect the country’s agriculture.
The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, reported…
Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday estimated its second-quarter operating profit shot up more than 15-fold, as a prolonged boom in artificial intelligence computing lifted prices of memory chips.
The world’s biggest maker of memory chips expected a s…
Hanwha Energy Corp., fully owned by the three sons of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn, said Friday it will pay some 180 billion won (US$131 million) to buy an 8 percent stake in the group’s holding company, Hanwha Corp.
Hanwha Energy will make …
