The vice foreign ministers of South Korea and Canada held talks Wednesday to discuss ways to expand bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy and key minerals, the foreign ministry said.
During the talks in Seoul, Second Vice Foreign Minister Kan…
South Korean stocks soared 2 percent Wednesday as tech, secondary battery and other market heavyweights rallied following overnight gains on Wall Street. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index cl…
LG Innotek Co. on Wednesday reported its first-quarter net profit of 138.5 billion won (US$101.1 million), up 66.3 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the January-March period rose 21.1 perc…
Samsung C andT Corp. on Wednesday reported its first-quarter net income of 822.1 billion won (US$600.5 million), up 9.3 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the January-March period rose 11.2…
Samsung Biologics Co. on Wednesday reported its first-quarter net profit of 179.4 billion won (US$131 million), up 26.5 percent from a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 221.3 billion won in operating profit for the…
More medical professors affiliated with major hospitals in South Korea are considering taking weekly breaks amid the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Wednesday, sparking fears of exacerbating the country’s health care crisis and f…
Some fans of girl group NewJeans staged a protest outside the building of K-pop giant Hybe in Seoul on Wednesday, deploying a “protest truck” to voice their grievances against the chief of its sub-label in an escalating conflict with the parent compa…
The number of South Koreans who moved to different residences in the country fell for the first time in six months, data showed Wednesday.
Around 563,000 people changed residences last month, down 4.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the da…
