The justice ministry on Thursday was scheduled to review beneficiaries of special presidential pardons to be granted on the occasion of Liberation Day next week, including a former South Gyeongsang governor and a former presidential secretary.
Presi…
South Korean stocks ended a two-day rebound after the global crash as investor sentiment was dampened by lingering U.S. recession woes and the sluggish performance of big tech firms. The local currency slightly fell against the U.S. dollar.
The benc…
One hundred Filipina child care workers entered the country Tuesday to participate in the pilot foreign caregiver program pushed jointly by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
They are scheduled to provide chi…
South Korea’s leading online gaming firm Nexon Co. said Thursday its net profit soared 63 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier on robust sales of its franchise games.
Its net profit came to 350.4 billion won (US$254.6 million) for the A…
A State Department spokesperson on Wednesday highlighted “near consensus” among many countries against North Korea’s provocative actions and for its return to dialogue, after the United States and Australia called for the “complete” denuclearization …
Park Tae-joon captured gold in the lightest division in men’s taekwondo on Wednesday for South Korea’s first title in its traditional martial at the Paris Olympics.
Park defeated Gashim Magomedov of Azerbaijan 2-0 (9-0, 13-1) in the men’s -58-kilogr…
