The government will provide 50 percent discounts for sports tickets through July in line with its plan to lift all social distancing measures from next week after more than two years.During a policy review meeting chaired by vice finance minister Lee E…
A U.S.-based website dedicated to taking apart satellite images taken above the reclusive North Korea assessed that Pyongyang continues to restore a shaft at a nuclear testing facility it claimed to have demolished in 2018.Citing satellite imagery on T…
Various commemorative events will take place throughout the country on Saturday, marking the eighth anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster that claimed the lives of 304 people.According to a group representing the families of the victims on Friday, a …
Prosecutor General Kim O-su visited the National Assembly for a second day to protest a bill that would strip his bureau’s investigative powers and asked the parliament to impeach him before its passage.During his visit on Friday morning to meet with t…
Japan’s foreign ministry has been found to be using the Korean language homepage address for the Dokdo islets as part of its territorial campaign.Typing in the URL “dokdo.com” with the islets’ name spelled in Korean alphabet connects to a Japanese fore…
A Japanese broadcaster reported that negotiations are in the final stages for a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to South Korea late next month for a leaders’ summit, purportedly occuring before his scheduled trip to Japan.Citing multiple diplomatic s…
The head of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) reportedly said on Thursday that the organization will downgrade its global growth forecasts for this year and the next in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.According to Reuters and other foreign …
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) fell 20-point-65 points, or zero-point-76 percent, on Friday, closing the week at two-thousand-696-point-06.The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also fell, losing three-point-57 points, or zero-point-38 percent, …