President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol will visit former President Park Geun-hye in Daegu this week.Yoon’s spokesperson said on Sunday that Yoon will visit the southeastern city and North Gyeongsang Province on Monday and Tuesday.The spokesperson said Yoon is m…
Firefighters on Monday resumed efforts to contain a wildfire that broke out the previous day in Yanggu in Gangwon Province.Authorities mobilized 13-hundred firefighters and 27 helicopters at 6 a.m. on Monday to extinguish the fire that started in Songc…
SEOUL– President Moon Jae-in said Monday that he expects to communicate with people on his post-presidential life via Twitter, as the number of followers of his account surpassed 2 million.”After retirement, I look forward to having a conversation abo…
SEOUL– The major aviation agency of the United Nations will hold a major legal forum in Seoul this week, where some 800 officials from a dozen nations will discuss ways of ensuring the safe recovery of the global aviation sector in the post-pandemic e…
SEOUL– South Korea’s personal pension savings grew 5 percent in 2021 as younger people have keen interest in making preparations for post-retirement life, data showed Monday.The country’s personal pension savings reserves came to 160.1 trillion won (U…
SEOUL– South Korea’s military resumed work Monday to find the remains of Korean War soldiers killed in a former battle site after five months of suspension caused by cold weather, the defense ministry said.The military has been carrying out the work a…
SEOUL– Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Busan Mayor Park Hyeong-joon and North Gyeongsang Gov. Lee Cheol-woo were nominated for reelection in June’s local elections, the People Power Party (PPP) said Monday.Park and Lee were the only candidates for nomination …
SEOUL– South Korea’s Defense Minister Suh Wook has reiterated Seoul’s stance against the provision of any lethal arms to Ukraine during last week’s phone talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, his office said Monday.Suh repeated the position in respons…