President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to hold his first press conference on Wednesday morning as he marks his 100th day in office.Yoon has been briefly answering questions from reporters via informal doorstepping sessions on a regular basis but it is the firs…
SEOUL– President Yoon Suk-yeol said Wednesday South Korea has no hostile intentions toward North Korea and is willing to carry out aid projects for the impoverished nation as long as Pyongyang shows firm commitment to denuclearization.The remarks, mad…
SEOUL– South Korea and Qatar signed an agreement Wednesday on reciprocal visa exemption to facilitate exchanges between the two nations, Seoul’s foreign ministry said.The agreement was signed during a meeting here between Foreign Minister Park Jin and…
SEOUL– Park Sam-koo, former chairperson of Kumho Asiana Group, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for embezzlement of company funds, breach of trust and fair trade law violations.The Seoul Central District Court made the ruling and ordered …
SEOUL/WASHINGTON– South Korea and the United States held their regular defense talks here this week on North Korea and a range of pending alliance issues, Seoul’s defense ministry said Wednesday.Agenda items in the two-day Korea-U.S. Integrated Defens…
A state-funded think tank says that prices of imported grain and locally processed food items will further rise in the second half of this year, stoking inflation concerns already gripping the nation.The Korea Rural Economic Institute(KREI) presented t…
The latest bout of downpours caused by a stationary front over the Korean Peninsula will continue pelting some southern regions on Wednesday while many other parts of the nation are expected to suffer sweltering heat.According to the Korea Meteorologic…
The government on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen cooperation in healthcare.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who was on a three-day visit to South Korea, signed the MOU, while f…