Medical professors at three Korea University-affiliated hospitals vowed Monday to start an indefinite voluntary walkout later this month, amid a prolonged standoff between doctors and the government over its medical reform plan.
The emergency commit…
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said Monday it has won a 1.4 trillion-won (US$1 billion) order to build four liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers for a Middle Eastern shipper.
The vessels will be delivered to the undisclosed sh…
Villagers flocked to thank the Lawyers Council for helping to file a cadmium lawsuit, leading to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the villagers.
Today (July 1) at 9:00 a.m., the Bangkok South Civil Court has scheduled a hearing to hear the Supre…
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…
KG Mobility, formerly known as SsangYong Motor Co., said Monday its June sales slipped 8.6 percent from a year earlier due to sluggish domestic demand.
KG Mobility sold 9,358 vehicles last month, compared with 10,243 units sold a year earlier, the c…
Unionized workers of Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday they will stage a general strike as their negotiations with the management over wages and working conditions fell through.
The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), the biggest labor unio…
A young DJ is appealing for justice after a drunken owner of a pub in Nakhon Phanom slammed him with a gun until his nose was broken because he did not play music as ordered. He then called his friends to attack him. He revealed that the perpetrator …
South Korean stocks opened a tad higher Monday amid eased woes over U.S. inflation and rising political uncertainties.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) added 0.95 point, or 0.03 percent, to 2,798.77 in the first 15 minutes of …
SK On Co., the loss-making battery unit of South Korea’s chip-to-construction conglomerate SK Group, said Monday it will freeze the annual pay of all executive-level officials until it turns to profit, as part of its cost-cutting measures.
Under the…
The government plans to announce measures to strengthen industrial safety for foreign workers later this month following last week’s deadly fire at a battery plant that claimed 23 lives, including 18 foreigners, the labor minister said Monday.
Seven…