Factbox-What South Korea has done and could do to defend won
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has issued warnings and made various efforts to prop up the won, one of the world’s worst performing major currencies this year. The won, near…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has issued warnings and made various efforts to prop up the won, one of the world’s worst performing major currencies this year. The won, near…
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris had one job this week, to visit the tense Korean Penninsula and reaffirm America’s alliance with South Korea. Instead, she announced a new alliance with…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Naval forces of Japan, the United States and South Korea will conduct joint military drills on Friday, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) announced on Thursday. MSDF said…
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday she visited South Korea to reinforce the strength of the two countries’ alliance, as she held a meeting with…
By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has completed preparations for a nuclear test and a possible window for carrying it out could be between Oct.…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday agreed to deepen cooperation on critical minerals used in electric vehicles…
By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea plans to announce financial reforms later this year, including its policy on shareholder returns, that could help reduce the “Korea discount” in…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and the United States are working on arranging a summit between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Joe Biden in New York around Sept. 20 to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has made clear it has no hostile intent toward North Korea and continues to seek diplomacy with the country, White House press secretary Karine…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia demanded at the United Nations on Thursday that the United States and Britain provide evidence to support their allegations that Moscow was…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – American and South Korean officials will meet next week to discuss “comprehensive measures” to deter North Korea, Seoul said on Thursday, as the two…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – Russia could be about to buy millions of artillery shells and rockets from old Cold-War ally North Korea, the White House said, an allegation…
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds said it was disappointed in the amount an international tribunal ordered South Korea to pay as damages over its sale…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Korean Deputy Trade Minister Ahn Sung-il raised concerns on Tuesday with the Biden administration over the revamped $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit that makes vehicles assembled outside…
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – South Korea’s central bank will raise its key interest rate again on Thursday to fight inflation, according to a Reuters poll of economists, but…
BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring victory over COVID-19, Chinese trade…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the United States’ “ironclad commitment” to the defense of South Korea and Japan in a call with South Korean Foreign Minister…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea and the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region of Ukraine will develop “equally beneficial bilateral cooperation”, Donetsk leader Denis Pushilin said in a letter…
SEOUL – In Seoul for meetings with South Korean leaders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said he fully supports efforts to completely denuclearize North Korea. “I would like…
SEOUL – North Korea denounced U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday for supporting deterrence against North Korea during her visit to South Korea this week. Pelosi and…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS – North Korea made preparations for a nuclear test during the first six months of this year, according to an excerpt of a confidential United…
SEOUL – South Korea’s factory activity shrank in July for the first time in nearly two years, as output and new orders weakened amid continued inflation and supply chain woes,…
SEOUL – A South Korean central-bank board member affirmed on Wednesday that interest rates should rise further but added that increases should be gradual, since downside risks to both exports…
SEOUL – South Korea’s top financial regulator unveiled on Tuesday a draft plan for supporting distressed financial companies to prevent failures, rather than waiting to bail them out after they…
SEOUL – General Motors Co’s South Korea unit has resumed production at its two factories in the country this week following a production halt that lasted about two weeks over…