A pin featuring the solitary portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is perceived as an effort to reinforce his position as the sole leader, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday.
A photograph from the state-run Korean Central News Agency, pu…
Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP)
1-year TB 3.309 3.328 -1.9
2-year TB 3.263 3.243 +2.0
3-year TB 3.210 3.182 +2.8
10-year TB 3.312 3.266 +4.6
2-year MSB 3.266 3.252 +1.4
3-year CB (AA-) 3.681 3.658 +2.3
91-day CD 3.600 3.600 0.0
Sou…
Online shopping sales in South Korea rose 7.7 percent on-year in May to reach an all-time high for any May on the back of various shopping events and celebrations for family days, the statistics agency said Monday.
The value of online shopping trans…
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 plenary meeting and questioned Chung Jin-suk, the presid…
Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP)
1-year TB 3.328 3.328 0.0
2-year TB 3.272 3.243 +2.9
3-year TB 3.216 3.182 +3.4
10-year TB 3.322 3.266 +5.6
2-year MSB 3.270 3.252 +1.8
3-year CB (AA-) 3.687 3.658 +2.9
Source: Yonhap News Agency
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 uprising.
The establishment of the state violence trauma treatment…
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 facing the country, officials said Monday.
The government unveiled the pla…
The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) urged President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday to clarify his remarks regarding the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush after a former National Assembly speaker quoted him as suggesting the tragedy may have been manipul…
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles in a northeastern direction Monday, South Korea’s military said, with one of the launches possibly failing and the missile landing inside the country.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said one short-range ball…
Renault Korea Motors Co., the South Korean unit of Renault S.A., said Monday its June sales jumped 23.4 percent last month from a year earlier thanks to a sharp rise in exports.
Renault Korea sold 9,002 vehicles in June, up from 7,297 units a year e…