The leader of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) announced plans Thursday to provide an additional 15,000 won (US$11) in electricity support to 1.3 million vulnerable households to help them better cope with the hot weather.

Han Dong-hoon made the …

South Korea and the United States plan to send a jointly developed solar coronagraph to the International Space Station (ISS) in October to gather information on the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, and solar wind, Seoul’s space agency said Thursda…

Yonsei University has revoked the master’s degree of a minor party leader’s son following a court ruling related to the case, informed school officials said Thursday.

The university recently decided to cancel the admission of Cho Won, the son of Cho…

SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., a biopharmaceutical affiliate of SK Group, said Thursday it turned to net profit in the second quarter from a net loss a year ago, driven by higher sales.

Its net profit came to 24.6 billion won (US$17.8 million), turning …

A military intelligence official has been referred to the prosecution for allegedly leaking information of South Korean espionage agents operating overseas, the defense ministry said Thursday.

“The Defense Counterintelligence Command has referred th…

The unification ministry on Thursday approved a package of support measures aimed at helping North Korean defectors better adjust to life in South Korea.

The measures, approved in an interagency meeting, include giving priority child care assistance…

CS Wind Corp. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 106 billion won (US$76.9 million), up 404.8 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the April-June period rose 211.5 percent o…

Fu Bao, South Korea’s first native-born giant panda, is set to return to the country next month — on the big screen.

At a press event Thursday promoting the upcoming documentary “My Dearest Fu Bao,” director Shim Hyung-jun described it as a “fairyt…