ormer U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday South Korea needs to continuously “persuade” China to understand that the two Koreas’ unification will not only contribute to global peace but also serve its own interests. Ban made the remarks during the Global Korea Forum (GKF), a global forum hosted by the unification ministry and designed to garner international support for South

Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun met his Bulgarian counterpart on Tuesday to sign a memorandum of understanding on forging deeper ties in the energy sector, including the nuclear power industry. Ahn inked the agreement with his Bulgarian counterpart, Vladimir Malinov, in Seoul to seek bilateral energy cooperation in the face of geopolitical uncertainties, including the Middle East crisis, according to the

K hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is developing next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) products to meet booming global demand for artificial intelligence and higher performance computing, a senior executive said Tuesday. “Demand for improvement in memory bandwidth is increasing following a spike in data traffic in the era of AI and high-performance computing,” Lee Kang-wook, head of package

Prosecutor General nominee Shim Woo-jung pledged Tuesday to take “necessary action” if needed in response to an alleged conflict of interest involving his brother’s stint at Kakao Corp., which is currently under prosecution investigation for suspected stock manipulation. Shim’s nomination last month has sparked speculation that his younger brother Woo-chan’s current role on Kakao’s control tower board could create a

Tuesday’s closing prices (KRW) of KOSPI 200 stocks traded on the main Korea Stock Exchange. Kumyang 47,050 DN 300 ORION Holdings 15,320 UP 20 Daesang 21,200 UP 200 SKNetworks 5,070 UP 80 CJ 116,800 UP 4,900 LX INT 30,900 DN 200 SBHC 20,000 UP 210 TaihanElecWire 11,910 DN 180 Hyundai M and F INS 35,750 UP 550 TCC STEEL 37,100

DWS 43,550 UP 600 KEPCO 21,800 UP 400 SamsungSecu 47,800 UP 700 KG DONGBU STL 5,850 UP 120 SKTelecom 56,500 UP 1,300 HyundaiElev 42,650 UP 700 SAMSUNG SDS 155,600 UP 3,000 KOREA AEROSPACE 54,500 UP 700 KUMHOTIRE 4,485 DN 125 Hanon Systems 4,125 UP 85 SK 147,400 UP 4,400 COWAY 66,400 DN 300 POSCO DX 30,650 UP 250 LOTTE SHOPPING

Hanwha Ocean 34,000 DN 550 HD Hyundai Infracore 7,050 UP 60 HANMISemi 108,600 DN 2,800 DWEC 4,000 DN 45 KEPCO KPS 41,200 UP 150 LG H and H 355,000 DN 5,500 LGCHEM 333,000 DN 7,000 KEPCO E and C 67,200 0 ShinhanGroup 57,200 UP 900 HYUNDAI ROTEM 52,600 UP 400 LGELECTRONICS 102,000 UP 400 LIG Nex1 195,800 UP 3,600 L

COSMOCHEM 21,350 DN 100 POSCO Holdings 359,000 DN 1,000 DB INSURANCE 121,100 UP 3,200 SLCORP 31,900 DN 900 Yuhan 144,900 UP 4,900 SamsungElec 72,500 DN 1,900 NHIS 13,960 UP 170 SamaAlum 50,300 UP 700 LS 111,700 UP 4,600 HD HYUNDAI HEAVY IND USTRIES188 50 0 UP3000 GC Corp 159,200 DN 7,300 GS E and C 20,250 DN 150 SAMSUNG SDI