Private equity firm MBK Partners raised its offer price by 13.6 percent to buy a controlling stake in Korea Zinc Inc. on Thursday, as a battle intensified for management control of the world’s largest refined zinc producer.
MBK, in cooperation with …
The dinner on Tuesday between President Yoon Suk Yeol and the leadership of the People Power Party (PPP), including its leader Han Dong-hoon, made us wonder if they are really eligible to govern the crisis-stricken country. Despite the rare meeting o…
A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck North Korea’s northwestern province bordering China on Thursday, the South Korean weather agency said.
The quake struck an area 26 kilometers southeast of Ryongrim, Jagang Province, at 11 a.m., with its epicenter at…
North Korea’s disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility earlier this month is not an isolated event that came out of the blue. It may be a prelude to a much more serious provocation – a nuclear test, which, if conducted as speculated, will be the N…
A lawmaker of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea proposed a criminal law revision bill with a clause introducing a new crime dubbed “legal distortion.”
The main point of the clause is that a prosecutor would face up to 10 years in prison …
Audiences should brace themselves for an intense and ethically murky journey in director Hur Jin-ho’s “A Normal Family.”
Throughout the film, viewers will be confronted with unsettling questions about what “normal” decisions, if any, can be made whe…
