South Korean stocks finished a tad higher Monday as investors took a breather ahead of the release of the Fed minutes and the second-quarter earnings guidance of Samsung Electronics.

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, said Monday its June sales dropped 6.3 percent from a year earlier due to a slowdown in domestic sales.

Hyundai Motor sold

South Korea will launch a new ministry of population strategy to address low birth rates and a rapidly aging population, which have emerged as some of the starkest challenges

The Education Minister expressed his condolences over the loss of a teacher from the car bomb incident in front of the Bannang Sata police flats. At the time of

Interrogation of suspects involved in the bombing of the Bannang Sata police flats, urgently expanding the investigation into the gang members, expected to still be hiding in the border

Rival parties clashed Monday over a bill mandating a special counsel investigation into the military’s response to a Marine’s death last year.

The parliamentary House Steering Committee held a

Major South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co. said Monday it has won orders totaling 2.15 trillion won (US$1.55 billion) for eight carriers from two Middle Eastern shippers.

Hanwha Ocean

A national trauma treatment center began operations Monday for victims of state violence in the southwestern city of Gwangju, the site of the bloody crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy

The Meteorological Department reported that Thailand will see less rain, but some areas of the upper North and Northeast will still experience heavy rain. People in these areas should