SEOUL– South Korea’s defense ministry said Friday that North Korea’s claim that it has successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile this week appears to be “exaggerated,” assessing Pyongyang has yet to secure technologies for such an advanced flight v…
SEOUL– Ruling party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung is leading his main opposition rival Yoon Suk-yeol by 10 percentage points with the election just two months away, a survey showed Friday.Lee of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) garnered 36 perc…
SEOUL– Main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol is likely to meet with a former rival in his party’s primary race, officials said Friday, as he tries to regain public support after defusing internal strife with the party’s chief.Yoon of th…
SUWON, South Korea– An appeals court upheld a 3 1/2-year prison term for a North Korean defector charged with spying for Pyongyang, court officials said Friday.The defector, whose identity was not made public, was indicted on charges of meeting with a…
SEOUL– POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said Friday that it has started the construction of a plant in China that will produce galvanized steel sheets to be used in making cars.The plant in Tangshan in northern China’s Hebei Prov…
SEOUL– Police on Friday pressed murder charges against the owner of a children’s sports center in Seoul on charges of sticking a 70-centimeter plastic stick into the anus of an employee and causing him to die with ruptured organs.The 41-year-old suspe…
SEOUL– South Korea on Friday sought cooperation with partner nations to overcome current global supply chain disruptions and to seek measures to ensure stable supply chains, the industry ministry said.Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo made the request during…
SEOUL– A number of cafes and restaurants in commercial districts in Seoul have defiantly stayed lit up past midnight in collective action protesting the government’s 9 p.m. anti-COVID-19 business curfew.Small bistros lining the Baekhack traditional ma…