SEOUL– Police on Sunday launched an investigation to determine how a worker got caught in a mixing machine and died at a bread making factory in Pyeongtaek. The 23-year-old employee of the factory affiliated with food and beverage giant SPC Group died Saturday after getting caught in the mixer, according to police in Pyeongtaek, 65 … Read more
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which convened in Beijing on Oct. 16 for a week, is expected to grant an unprecedented third five-year term to Xi Jinping, the CCP general secretary and state president. In the run up to the congress, RFA has examined the 69-year-old Xi’s decade at the … Read more
In collaboration with the Governments of Mauritius, China, Korea, Australia, Germany, Russia, with the European Investment Bank, and with additional financial support from beneficiary countries Seychelles, Angola, Togo, Guinea, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Mali and South Africa, ICD and other IMF departments have been offering courses at ATI in Mauritius, since … Read more
SEOUL– South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 30,000 for the fourth consecutive day Sunday as infections have been on a decline in recent weeks. The country reported 21,469 new COVID-19 infections, including 87 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,120,465, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The country reported 32 … Read more
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 (Yonhap) — A massive K-pop concert slated for this weekend in the United States has been disrupted as multiple artists were unable to perform at the event due to visa issues. According to KAMP Global, the organizers of KAMP LA 2022, on Saturday (U.S. time), six out of the 15 scheduled … Read more
WASHINGTON/SEOUL– South Korea plans to begin exempting taxes on interest income and capital gains from foreigners’ investment in government bonds this week, in line with efforts to cope with the volatility in the foreign exchange market, the finance ministry said Sunday. “The measures were needed amid the lingering volatility in the financial and foreign exchange … Read more
WASHINGTON/SEOUL– South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho highlighted the importance of keeping “consistency” between financial and monetary policies as countries tackle global inflation, the finance ministry said Sunday. “While it is inevitable to take a tight monetary policy to stabilize prices, we also need to fully consider that the move intensifies the volatility in the … Read more
SEOUL– Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, has restored 40 percent of its data center’s servers, an executive said Sunday, as it is working to fully repair its services disrupted by a fire. The tech giant has restored 12,000 servers out of 32,000 at its data center in the SK … Read more