SEOUL– Unification Minister Kwon Young-se met with the new U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg on Friday for discussions on North Korea and pending bilateral issues, officials said.Goldberg visited the ministry’s headquarters in central Seo…
Ulsan Hyundai FC and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, the two best teams in South Korean football so far this year, will square off for the third time this season on Sunday. The kickoff is 7 p.m. at Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonbuk’s home located some 200 kilo…
SEOUL– Girls’ Generation, one of the longest-running K-pop girl groups, made a highly anticipated comeback Friday, the anniversary of the day of its debut in 2007, with “Forever 1.””Forever 1,” the group’s seventh full-length album, marks its first gr…
SEOUL– The government will resume preemptive COVID-19 tests for new military conscripts to prevent mass infections at boot camps amid a new wave of virus resurgence, Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said Friday.”The government will have new conscripts g…
SEOUL– South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases exceeded 100,000 for the fourth straight day Friday amid a wave of infections driven by a highly infectious omicron variant.The country added 112,901 new COVID-19 infections, including 497 from overseas, bringin…
SEOUL– DRAM prices went south for the second straight month in August amid flagging demand, data showed Friday, boding ill for the chip industry down the road.The average contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAMs came to US$2.91 on the spot market Thursd…
SEOUL– South Korea’s military reported 1,835 additional COVID-19 cases Friday, raising the total caseload among its service members to 220,895, the defense ministry said.The new cases included 1,298 from the Army, 209 from the Air Force, 116 from the …
ICHEON, South Korea– Five people were killed and 44 others were injured Friday in a fire at a four-story building that contains a hospital in Icheon, some 50 kilometers southeast of Seoul, fire officials said.The fire broke out at 10:17 a.m. in the bu…