Record torrential rainfall battered South Korea’s southern regions Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead and thousands evacuated and disrupting train and flight services, authorities said.
Parts of North Jeolla Province experienced record dow…
Chachoengsao, ‘Jao Klaw-Nong Thongkwaw’, the smart albino buffaloes at Wat Samanrattanaram in Mueang District, Chachoengsao Province, nodded in thanks and smiled broadly showing their teeth after the abbot fed them bananas. The abbot revealed that th…
A strike hit Samsung Electronics for the first time since its foundation in 1969. The National Samsung Electronics Union, the largest labor union in Korea, started a three-day general strike from Monday. The union demands a “rational wage increase” a…
South Korea and the United States began a new round of negotiations Wednesday on the sharing of the cost for the upkeep of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), officials said.
The three-day talks in Seoul mark their fifth round since the two countries launched…
Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics, staging the biggest labor action in the technology giant’s 55-year history, declared an “indefinite general strike” Wednesday, stepping up pressure over their demand for a pay raise.
After a three-day strike…
Police referred 29 people, including nine incumbent Doosan Bears players, to the prosecution for their alleged involvement in supplying or getting drug prescriptions for former professional baseball player Oh Jae-won, officials said Wednesday.
The s…
Kamphaeng Phet, Grandparents were drugged by a gang of 4 pig buyers until they were dazed and unconscious before the pigs they were raising disappeared. They realized it in the middle of the night and rushed to file a police report.
Mr Somwang, aged…
South Korea’s household loans surged at an embarrassing pace last week, ringing alarm bells for financial authorities over local home buyers rushing to take out mortgage loans from banks, often beyond their repayment capacity, in a bid to ride a reco…
South Korea and Japan held joint talks between their senior defense officials in Tokyo on Wednesday, the defense ministry said, amid efforts to improve bilateral ties and deter threats from North Korea.
It marked the first time the director general-…
South Korea began production of the homegrown KF-21 fighter jet Wednesday, the defense procurement agency said, in the latest milestone in the country’s efforts to build an advanced fighter aircraft.
A ceremony marking the assembly of the first KF-2…