SEOUL– Main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol is leading his ruling party rival Lee Jae-myung with 41 percent public support against Lee’s 34 percent, a survey showed Friday.Yoon of the conservative People Power Party gained 4 percentage…
SEOUL– South Korea’s economy is on a recovery path on the back of robust exports, but the fast spread of the omicron variant is feared to hurt the recovery of private spending, the finance ministry said Friday.External economic uncertainties also heig…
SEOUL– South Korean stocks pared most of their earlier losses from the military tensions in Ukraine in late Friday morning, backed by expectations of a U.S.-Russia meeting next week about the standoff.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (K…
SEOUL– South Korea’s military on Friday reported 639 additional COVID-19 cases, raising the total caseload among its domestic personnel to 10,921.The new cases included 463 from the Army, 85 from the Air Force, 41 from units under the direct control o…
SEOUL– South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases exceeded 100,000 on Friday for the first time since the pandemic began about two years ago as the highly transmissible omicron variant spreads rapidly.The cases could continue to rise going forward as the gove…