Foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges to South Korea fell 10.4 percent on-year in the first six months of this year amid economic uncertainties, data showed Friday.
The country received US$15.34 billion in FDI commitments in the January-June perio…
The unification ministry said Friday it has approved a plan to spend 815 million won (US$592,000) this year to conduct a survey on the fate of South Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
The government plans to carry out the survey on…
Prosecutor General Lee One-seok on Friday denounced the main opposition party’s push to impeach four prosecutors, mostly involved in corruption investigations into former party leader Lee Jae-myung, as an illegal act.
The Democratic Party (DP) submi…
Police have booked a man in his 20s for leaving a deriding note at the site of this week’s deadly car crash in central Seoul that killed nine people and injured seven others, officials said Friday.
The Seoul Namdaemun Police Station said the man tur…
LG Electronics Inc. on Friday estimated its second-quarter operating profit soared more than 60 percent from a year earlier on robust sales of its key products, beating market expectations.
Its operating profit came to 1.19 trillion won (US$868.1 mi…
Cho Hyun-moon, former vice president of Hyosung Corp. and estranged son of the company’s founding family, on Friday pledged to end his yearslong conflict with his brothers and donate an inheritance from his late father to society.
At a press confere…
