SEOUL, Acclaimed novelist Han Kang’s latest novel “I Do Not Bid Farewell” has won a French literary award.
The novel took home the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, according to the award’s organizer Friday (French time), for her “restrained …
Cambodia’s trade with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries amounted to US$2.74 billion in January, a year-on-year increase of 21.2 percent, a report of the Ministry of Commerce showed on Friday.
The report said Cam…
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have no plans to hold a summit meeting in March, Yoon’s office said Friday.
Japanese broadcaster Fuji News Network had earlier reported that Kishida could visit South Korea in …
SEOUL, The government of President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to draw up a new vision for unification with North Korea to include the principle of liberal democracy, a presidential official said Friday.
It will mark the first revision to the National Commu…
SEOUL, North Korea was again assessed as one of the most repressive countries in the world in an annual report by the U.S.-based freedom watchdog, receiving only three out of 100 points on the freedom index.
In the report, titled “Freedom in the Wor…
SEOUL, The following is a translation of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s speech to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement. It was provided by his office.
My fellow citizens, 7 million overseas Koreans, decorated patriots wh…
South Korea’s fertility rate, or the average number of births a woman is expected to give in her lifetime, fell to the lowest ever of 0.72 last year. It has continued downhill from 1.24 in 2015. The number of babies born in the country dropped 7.7 pe…
Prompted by the recent increase in sales overseas, Korean nuclear plant builders are now witnessing a renaissance. Despite the booming sales of so-called K-reactors, however, concerns are growing over the delayed special bill for the treatment of hig…
