SEOUL, South Korea’s consumer prices slowed to an 11-month low in June, though prices of fresh food items and petroleum products remained high, data showed Tuesday.
Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.4 percent on-year last month, comp…
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol called Tuesday for scientific safety measures to address rising concerns over hard-to-extinguish fires after a lithium battery plant went up in flames last week and killed nearly two dozen workers.
Yoon made the remark…
Ratchaburi, Water hyacinth, from worthless weeds, is woven into various pieces of work, generating income for the family.
Water hyacinth is a weed that can reproduce quickly. If not eliminated, it will affect the environment and block waterways. How…
Bangkok, The authorities raided an online gambling den that used snooker tables as a front in a parking lot of a famous shopping mall in the Pinklao area.
Administrative officers raided an online gambling den located in a parking lot of a shopping m…
SEOUL, The unification ministry on Tuesday unveiled newly declassified documents shedding light on inter-Korean talks on sports and humanitarian cooperation from 1981-87, following North Korea’s deadly bombing attack in then Burma in 1983.
The dossi…
SEOUL, South Korean stocks fell sharply Tuesday ahead of key economic events in the United States later this week. The local currency traded weaker against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 23.45 points, o…
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Yonhap) — The United States on Monday condemned North Korea’s ballistic missile launches this week, reaffirming its “ironclad” security commitment to South Korea.
On Monday Morning (Korea time), the North fired two ballistic mis…
SEOUL, The Korea International Trade Association (KITA), a major South Korean business lobby, said Tuesday it has opened an office in the U.S. city of Dallas.
KITA said it held an opening ceremony for the office in the major city in Texas on Monday …
SEOUL, South Korea reported its fifth case of African swine fever (ASF) of the year Tuesday.
The latest case was found at a farm in Andong, some 190 kilometers southeast of Seoul in North Gyeongsang Province.
This was the first ASF case since June …
SEOUL, Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that China might be willing to cooperate in denuclearizing North Korea amid growing ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to be …