With about two weeks to go to the June 1 local elections, a new poll finds that Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon is still leading former Democratic Party(DP) Chairperson Song Young-gil by some 20 percentage points in the Seoul mayoral race.According to a joint p…
President Yoon Suk Yeol will attend a ceremony in Korea’s southern city of Gwangju on Wednesday to remember the May 18 pro-democracy movement, also referred to as the “Gwangju Uprising.”According to a senior presidential official on Tuesday, Yoon is ex…
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday appointed former vice foreign minister and ruling People Power Party(PPP) Rep. Cho Tae-yong as the administration’s first ambassador to the United States.The former diplomat spent most of his career handling U.S. and …
Ruling People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum on Tuesday introduced bills on revising civil and administrative laws to unify how age is counted in South Korea.The bills call for a “universal age” as the official standard for counting and indicating o…
The nuclear envoys of South Korea and Japan held their first phone talks on Tuesday and discussed issues pertaining to North Korea.Seoul’s foreign ministry said Kim Gunn, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs who took o…
SEOUL– South Korea plans to conduct tests for COVID-19 antibody positivity this month to secure scientific data for pandemic-related policies, health officials said Tuesday.The state-run National Institute of Infectious Diseases will test a selected p…
SEOUL– South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases hit a little over 35,000 on Tuesday, the lowest Tuesday tally in more than three months, reflecting the slowing virus trend amid efforts to restore pre-pandemic normalcy.The country reported 35,117 new COVID-19 …
Health authorities reported about 35-thousand new COVID-19 cases amid a clear downturn in infections.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that 35-thousand-117 infections were reported throughout the previous day, including 26 fr…