SEOUL– Samsung Electronics Co. has established a special team to spearhead efforts to prop up sales of its mobile phones and electronic devices in the Chinese market, industry sources said Sunday.The new team will focus on mobile devices, consumer ele…
SEOUL– Schools in the capital area will resume remote learning this week as part of a government campaign aimed at stemming the fast spread of the coronavirus, officials said Sunday.Under the latest rules, schools in the capital area and overly crowde…
SEOUL– K-pop superband BTS has been nominated for the 2022 BRIT Awards for International Group of the Year, the awards’ website showed Sunday.This is the second consecutive year the group has been nominated for the British annual music awards, both ti…
SEOUL– Hankook Tire & Technology Co., the world’s sixth-largest tiremaker by sales, said it resumed operations at its two plants in South Korea on Sunday, 26 days after a strike began over this year’s wage deal.The deal reached Friday includes…
SEOUL– Hyundai Motor Group said Sunday that environment-friendly vehicles topped 10 percent of its global car sales for the first time this year amid growing demand for electric cars.The country’s top automotive conglomerate said its two carmakers, Hy…
SEOUL– A South Korean consortium led by local electric carmaker Edison Motors Co. agreed to purchase the financially-troubled SsangYong Motor Co. at a lower price with an accounting firm overseeing the sales, sources said Sunday.The move came after th…
SEOUL– South Korea’s military on Sunday reported 27 additional COVID-19 cases, with all of them being breakthrough infections, raising the total caseload among its personnel to 2,933.Of the new cases, 22 are from the Army, two from units under the dir…
SEOUL– South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 7,000 for the first time in five days Sunday, but critical cases surged to a record high as the government reimposed restrictions to contain the fast spread of the virus.The country added 6,236 mor…