SEOUL– LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal to acquire a stake in Israel-based automotive cybersecurity firm Cybellum in a move to strengthen its growing auto parts business.The South Korean tech giant said it will purchase a 63.9 pe…
SEOUL– A 2.6 magnitude earthquake struck South Korea’s southeastern region Thursday afternoon, the state weather agency said.The quake occurred about 14 kilometers south of Changnyeong, about 350 kilometers southeast of Seoul, at 12:02 p.m., according…
SEOUL– The Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), South Korea’s state-run utility firm, announced Thursday it plans to raise the electricity rate in the fourth quarter of 2021 to reflect the hike in the global price of resources.KEPCO said it plans to te…
SEOUL– A suspended prison sentence for B.I, the former leader of K-pop boy band iKON convicted of illegal drug use, has been finalized in absence of an appeal, judicial sources said Thursday.According to the sources, neither the prosecution nor the de…
SEOUL– Lee Ho-wang, a leading South Korean virologist who discovered the deadly Hantaan virus, has been included in this year’s list of researchers deemed to be of Nobel Prize class, London-based analytics company Clarivate said Thursday.Lee, along wi…
SEOUL– The United States and South Korea should actively consider offering conditional incentives to North Korea to bring the regime back to denuclearization talks, Seoul’s top diplomat has said.Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong made the remark during a…
PAJU, South Korea– Police said Thursday that they have launched a probe into a female North Korean defector for seeking to cross the inter-Korean border to return to North Korea.The woman, who is in her 60s, was taken into custody by the police near T…
SEOUL– The population movement during this year’s Chuseok holiday period increased 5 percent from a year earlier, Seoul’s transport ministry said Thursday, apparently due to eased virus curbs for family gatherings.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure …