President Yoon Suk Yeol has approved the appointment of seven new board members of public broadcaster KBS in line with the recommendations of the state broadcasting watchdog, an official said Thursday.
Yoon signed off on the appointments late Wednesd…
South Korea and its counterparts from Indo-Pacific partner nations, as well as the European Union, have held a vice foreign ministerial-level meeting to discuss potential areas of future cooperation, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday.
The meetin…
Nakhon Ratchasima, Making dreams come true from an employee to the owner of a rattan factory, using local wisdom to produce various types of woven products, generating hundreds of thousands of baht in income per month.
At Ban Rang Ka Yai, Village No….
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker by sales, said Thursday it saw a slight bump in sales last month thanks to an increase in exports.
Kia, the smaller affiliate of Hyundai Motor Co., sold 261,334 vehicles in July, up 0.9 percent from 2…
A man attended a court hearing on Thursday regarding an arrest warrant sought for him on charges of slashing a random neighbor to death with a Japanese longsword, saying he doesn’t feel sorry for the victim.
The 37-year-old assailant, surnamed Baek, …
South Korea has secured at least the silver medal in the mixed doubles event in badminton at the Paris Olympics, after an all-Korean semifinal duel as set up on Wednesday.
Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yu-jung first advanced to the semifinals by defeating T…
Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on Thursday vowed to beef up monitoring of the global financial market and devise contingency plans to better respond to uncertainties regarding interest rates in the United States and other nations.
Choi made the remar…
SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s leading refiner and parent firm of battery maker SK On Co., said Thursday its second-quarter net losses deepened due to lower refining margins and a slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) markets.
Net losses for the three …
Opposition parties on Thursday introduced a parliamentary motion to impeach Korea Communications Commission (KCC) Chairperson Lee Jin-sook, just a day after she took office, claiming she is unqualified as broadcasting watchdog chief.
The motion, intr…
BGF Retail Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 58.5 billion won (US$42.9 million), down 1.7 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 76.2 billion won in operating profit for the quarter…