A mother asked the police to help find her son who had been missing from home for a week and could not be contacted. He was found dead and tied up in a village pond. The killer claimed that they had a fight over liking the same woman.

A team of dive…

A dozen years after he last won an Olympic medal, Park Tae-hwan remains the only South Korean swimmer who has reached the podium at the quadrennial competition.

Park, in France to do television commentary work for the Paris Olympics, said Friday he …

A local court on Friday issued arrest warrants for two YouTubers accused of blackmailing and extorting “mukbang” YouTube star Tzuyang.

The Suwon District Court issued the warrants after questioning Lee Jun-hee and Jeon Kuk-jin, known by their YouTub…

A half-dozen South Korean swimmers preparing for the Paris Olympics will move out of the athletes’ village Saturday and will instead stay at a hotel near their competition venue, the sport’s top national official said.

Chong Chang-hoon, president of…

SK hynix Inc. announced Friday a plan to invest 9.4 trillion won (US$6.8 billion) in building its first fab and relevant facilities at an envisioned semiconductor cluster in Yongin, south of Seoul.

The world’s No. 2 memory chip maker said its board …

Hyosung Corp. on Friday reported its second-quarter net income of 15.1 billion won (US$10.9 million), up 349.5 percent from a year earlier.

Operating profit for the April-June period was 38.2 billion won, up 63.9 percent from a year ago, the company…

Hyosung Advanced Materials Corp. on Friday reported its second-quarter net profit of 26.2 billion won (US$18.9 million), up 88.7 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 65.8 billion won in operating profit…