South Korea launched its second indigenous spy satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida on Monday (Seoul time), according to the defense ministry.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:17 a.m. (7:17 p.m. lo…
BTS member J-Hope has broken his own record on the U.S. Billboard 200 main albums chart as his latest album debuted at No. 5.
“Hope on the Street Vol. 1,” which the rapper-dancer released March 29, claimed the fifth spot on the chart dated for April…
South Korean stocks opened lower Monday despite Wall Street gains backed by stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index dropped 6.29 points, or 0.23 percent, to 2,707.92 in the first 15 minutes of trading.
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The government is ready to discuss with doctors about an increased quota in medical school admissions in an open manner if they come up with a unified and more reasonable measure, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday.
About 12,000 trainee docto…
Babymonster, the latest girl group from YG Entertainment, has set a new record for first-week album sales for the first album of a K-pop girl group, the agency said Monday.
The group’s first EP, “Babymons7er,” sold 401,287 copies in its first week a…
South Korea and the United States will hold regular defense talks this week to discuss ways to bolster security cooperation and deter North Korean nuclear and missile threats, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday.
The Korea-U.S. Integrated Defense D…
South Korea will attend an annual summit of international competition enforcers to be held this week in the United States to discuss enforcement priorities and strategies for effective global policy coordination, Seoul’s antitrust regulator said Mond…
Children’s products sold on AliExpress, one of the biggest Chinese online retail platforms, have been found to contain cancer-causing substances as much as 56 times higher than permitted levels, the Seoul city government said Monday.
The city releas…
