President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday granted a special pardon to former South Gyeongsang Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo on the occasion of Liberation Day, reinstating his rights to run for public office despite objections from members of his ruling party.
The pa…
North Korea on Tuesday denounced top U.S. officials’ joint opinion piece that touted “unprecedented” trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the United States and Japan as feats of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific diplomacy.
In the piece pu…
Kim Jong-sik:ik, the first vice department director of the ruling Workers’ Party, was seen attending the opening ceremony of Army 2024, an international military-technical forum, on Monday (local time), Radio Free Asia, a U.S. media outlet, reported, …
An ongoing wave of COVID-19 is forecast to reach a peak around end-August after the summer vacation season, the health authorities said Tuesday, vowing to strengthen responses to curb its spread.
South Korea has seen a sharp increase in the number o…
A Supreme Court panel has revised sentencing guidelines to allow punishments as severe as life imprisonment for those convicted of organized fraud, such as home rental and voice phishing schemes, officials said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court’s sentenci…
South Korea’s electricity demand hit an all-time high Monday as the country was struck by scorching summer heat, data showed Tuesday.
The country’s maximum power demand reached 102.327 gigawatts between 2-3 p.m. Monday, surpassing the previous recor…
Doubleugames Co. on Tuesday reported its second-quarter net profit of 64.2 billion won (US$46.8 million), up 44.5 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the April-June period rose 33.4 percent …
South Korean stocks ended slightly higher Tuesday as investors remained cautious ahead of the releases of major U.S. data later this week to gauge the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy direction. The local currency gained ground against the U.S. doll…
Kakaopay Corp. has provided credit information of its users to China’s Alipay without the required customer consent, the financial regulator said Tuesday, an allegation quickly dismissed by the South Korean platform.
The Financial Supervisory Servic…
Doubleugames Co. on Tuesday reported its second-quarter net profit of 64.2 billion won (US$46.8 million), up 44.5 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the April-June period rose 33.4 percent …