S.Korea’s Yoon tightens scrutiny of stock short-selling
By Choonsik Yoo SEOUL – South Korea’s financial supervisory and prosecution agencies said on Thursday they would strengthen monitoring and punishment of illegal stock short-selling following an order by the country’s president.…
S.Korea’s Yoon calls for all-out effort to ease cost of living
SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told the government on Monday to do all it can to stabilise the cost of living in the face of inflation now poised to increase…
Analysis-S.Korea’s Yoon uses Biden summit as springboard for global agenda as China looms
By Josh Smith SEOUL – South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, used a largely successful summit with U.S. President Joe Biden over the weekend to lay the foundation for his goal of…
Biden arrives in South Korea for talks with President Yoon
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea – U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday, the first leg of his first trip to Asia as president. Biden was greeted at the…
S.Korea’s Yoon faces early challenge amid hints of N.Korea nuclear test
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s plans to offer economic aid in return for denuclearisation could face an early challenge amid signs of an imminent North Korean nuclear test…
From would-be pastor to ‘fighting cock’, S.Korean president Yoon carves own route to the top
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – Yoon Suk-yeol seals his surge to the summit of South Korean politics on Tuesday when the man who once dreamt of becoming a pastor, but was nicknamed…
Telemedicine booms in S.Korea amid COVID, President-elect Yoon backs practice
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 his symptoms…
S.Korea’s Yoon says he will move presidential office to defence ministry
By Josh Smith and Minwoo Park SEOUL – South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, breaking with decades of tradition, said on Sunday he will move the presidential office from the Blue House to…
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