SEOUL– The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed rulings that did not acknowledge part of the state’s responsibility for compensation in a case involving a former student activist who served a prison term on trumped-up charges of abetting a friend’s suicide and forging his will. In 1992, Kang Ki-hoon, then a university student, was sentenced … Read more
SINGAPORE– Peter Sohn, a director at Pixar Animation Studios, said Wednesday the upcoming film “Elemental” is inspired by his own childhood in New York with parents who had emigrated from South Korea and made sacrifices for their family. Sohn introduced Pixar’s 27th computer-animated project and his second feature film during Disney Content Showcase held … Read more
SEOUL– Indong Advanced Materials Inc., a South Korean producer of secondary battery materials, said Wednesday it has acquired lithium mining rights in Bolivia in a deal potentially worth as much as 130 trillion won (US$98.4 billion). The mining rights are part of the business contract Indong Advanced Materials has signed with a U.S. energy … Read more
SEOUL– The presidential office on Wednesday reconfirmed its determination to deal sternly with strikes by unionized truckers and subway workers. Kim Eun-hye, senior presidential secretary for press affairs, said the government will try to guarantee the legitimate rights of striking workers but illegal acts are not permitted. “We’ll sternly respond to strikes that … Read more
SEOUL– The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) tabled a motion Wednesday calling for the dismissal of Interior Minister Lee Sang-min to hold him accountable for the bungled emergency response to the deadly crowd crush in Seoul last month. The DP submitted the motion to pass it through the National Assembly’s plenary session Friday. The … Read more
SEOUL– An appellate court on Wednesday halted a six-month business suspension penalty cable TV channel MBN had received on accounting fraud charges. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) handed the heavy punishment in November 2020 with a six-month grace period, concluding the channel illegally raised its capital in violation of the broadcasting act. The … Read more
WASHINGTON/SEOUL– U.S. President Joe Biden toured a plant of SK Siltron CSS, a local subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Group, in Michigan on Tuesday. Biden gave a speech at the semiconductor chip production line in Bay City, in which he thanked SK for creating jobs in his country and called its investment in the … Read more
SEOUL– South Korea on Wednesday named new heads of the Marine Corps and the Army’s Special Warfare Command in a regular reshuffle that affected scores of general-grade officers, the defense ministry said. Maj. Gen. Kim Gye-hwan, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, will be promoted to lieutenant general to lead the armed service. He … Read more