Biden Secret Service agents sent home after drunk assault report in S.Korea
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Joori Roh SEOUL -Two U.S. Secret Service agents who were working on Joe Biden’s trip to Asia are being sent home after one was accused of…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Joori Roh SEOUL -Two U.S. Secret Service agents who were working on Joe Biden’s trip to Asia are being sent home after one was accused of…
SEOUL – South Korea’s unemployment rate remained at a historical low for a third month in April, while the number of people employed increased for a 14th straight month, the…
SEOUL – South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves measured in U.S. dollars shrank by the most in more than two years in April on the dollar’s strength and dollar-selling intervention by…
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL – South Korea’s exports are expected to have posted their slowest growth in 14 months in April while consumer inflation is seen hitting a near 11-year…
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL -South Korea’s economic growth nearly halved in the first quarter from the preceding three months on coronavirus curbs and surging inflation, while a slowing Chinese economy…
By Jihoon Lee and Yena Park SEOUL -South Korea’s finance minister will lobby for the country to be included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) developed market index when…
SEOUL – South Korea’s factory activity slowed in March, as the economic fallout from the Ukraine war added strains to firms already struggling with supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures,…
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL – South Korea’s military has said North Korea’s largest missile test yet used an older, smaller intercontinental ballistic missile, and not the massive…
By Joori Roh SEOUL – Kim Jin-woo, a 27-year old resident of Seoul battling COVID-19 and recovering at home under a new government policy, needed to see a doctor when…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – South Korea’s military said on Wednesday it had sent back all seven North Korean sailors who were aboard a ship it seized after the vessel…
SEOUL – South Korea’s ruling party leader, Song Young-gil, was hospitalised on Monday after being attacked by a stranger with an unknown object while campaigning in Seoul for the party’s…
By Josh Smith SEOUL – South Korea will implement export controls against Belarus for “effectively supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine”, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. The ministry did…
By Joori Roh SEOUL – South Korea’s consumer inflation hovered near a decade high in February and stood above the central bank’s 2% target for an 11th month, adding pressure…
By Cynthia Kim and Joori Roh SEOUL – Lee Jae-hong would have had no trouble buying a home in the suburb of Ilsan on the outskirts of Seoul back in…
SEOUL – South Korea’s exports likely increased for a 16th month in February, and at a faster pace, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, though Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may…
SEOUL -South Korea on Sunday surpassed one million cumulative COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections driven by an Omicron…
SEOUL – South Korea posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases on Sunday, despite extended COVID-19 curbs and a high vaccination rate, raising concerns of further spread during the…