SEOUL– South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. said Thursday it has began its test run of a cathode-producing factory, jointly set up with a local cathode manufacturer.The EcoPro EM factory, located in Pohang, 374 kilometers southeast of Seoul, wil…
SEOUL– For the first time in three months, Ko Jin-young failed to break a 70 in an LPGA round.The South Korean star put up a one-under 71 in the opening round of the BMW Ladies Championship on Thursday in Busan, some 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul….
SEOUL– South Korea launched its first homegrown space launch vehicle Thursday in the latest attempt to foster its space program and join the elite global space club.The KSLV-II — also known as Nuri — blasted off from the Naro Space Center in the cou…
YONGIN, South Korea– The owner of a bear farm has been arrested on charges of falsely claiming that two black bears escaped from the farm in an attempt to cover up an illegal slaughter, police said Thursday.The incident happened on July 6 when the far…
SEOUL– The following is a chronology of major events leading to the development of South Korea’s homegrown space rocket Nuri, or Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II (KSLV-II), which was launched from the Naro Space Center in the country’s southern coastal v…
SEOUL– South Korea has yet to finalize its position on co-sponsoring this year’s U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning North Korea’s human rights abuses, according to Seoul’s top diplomat Thursday.Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong told lawmakers d…
SEOUL– The following are quick facts about South Korea’s homegrown space rocket Nuri, or Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II (KSLV-II), which was launched from the Naro Space Center in the country’s southern coastal town of Goheung.– Nuri means ‘world’ in …
Many small-business owners in South Korea recognize themselves in the cash-strapped characters of the wildly popular Netflix drama Squid Game, who vie desperately for a chance to win 45.6 billion won, about $38 million in U.S. dollars, exposing a debt …