President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol’s team has denied a media report that he has sought to attend the Quad summit, set for next month in Japan, as an observer.Yoon’s spokesperson Bae Hyun-jin said on Thursday that the report is not true and that the matter w…
The United Nations Security Council(UNSC) has granted a sanctions exemption to a South Korean non-governmental organization(NGO) that provides charcoal briquette-making machines to North Korea.In a post on its website, the UNSC’s North Korea sanctions …
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and groups of farmers and fishermen held large-scale demonstrations in two major business areas in Seoul on Wednesday.According to the rallies’ organizers, some six-thousand union members gathered at the demonst…
The North Korean regime has handed out major promotions for a number of military officials on the eve of the “Day of the Sun,” the anniversary of the state founder Kim Il-sung’s birth.According to the North’s Rodong Newspaper on Thursday, some 95 milit…
Social distancing rules that have held sway over norms and daily routines for more than two years during the COVID-19 pandemic will likely be scrapped altogether from next week.The South Korean government is set to announce new regulations on Friday th…
President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol has nominated former presidential secretary for agriculture Chung Hwang-keun as his new agriculture minister, and former secretary general of the Korea Labor and Employment Service Lee Jung-sik as the new labor minister.Wi…
SEOUL– Top South Korean and U.S. military officers on Thursday boarded a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the East Sea, sources said, in a rare move to highlight the allies’ unity amid concerns about possible North Korean provocations….
SEOUL– Jeju Air Co. and T’way will become South Korea’s first budget carriers to operate direct flights to the Mongolian city of Ulaanbaatar, the transportation ministry said Thursday.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport decided to give …