The National Assembly on Thursday rejected a bill mandating a special counsel investigation into the military’s response to a Marine’s death that was up for a revote after President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed it for the second time.

The bill was voted down…

The following is the weather forecast for South Korea’s 12 major cities at 9:01 a.m. Thursday.

Temperature (C) Condition Possibility

High/Low of Rain (%)

Seoul 33/26 Sunny 60

Incheon 31/25 Sunny 60

Suwon 33/25 Sunny 60

Cheongju 35/26 Sunny 60

D…

The government will push to reduce inheritance tax to reflect decades of changes in asset values and inflation, and to provide a tax credit for marriage and childbirth in an effort to boost the ultra-low birth rate, the finance ministry said Thursday….

The industry ministry on Thursday pledged governmentwide support for a multibillion-dollar deal with the Czech Republic to build two nuclear reactors in the European nation.

Second Vice Industry Minister Choe Nam-ho made the remark at a meeting with …

POSCO DX Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 20.4 billion won (US$14.8 million), down 28 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the April-June period fell 29.1 percent on-y…

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday named an economics professor at Hanyang University as the inaugural senior presidential secretary for low birth rate issues.

You Hye-mi, a 46-year-old “working mom” with twins in elementary school, was chosen to fi…

North Korea’s top diplomat has met with her visiting counterpart from Belarus, and discussed regional and international situations, North Korea’s state media reported Thursday, amid speculation that the nations would strengthen trilateral cooperation …

North Korea’s latest round of its balloon campaign involved around 500 balloons carrying scrap paper and plastic sheets, including those that fell on the presidential office compound in the capital, South Korea’s military said Thursday.

In what marke…