In the case of a taxi driver who was watching a pornographic movie in the car and had his photo taken and shared on social media, the Department of Land Transport has recently ordered punishment.

Social media has published a complaint about the beha…

Starbucks Korea said Wednesday it will adjust most of its beverage prices to reflect surging costs of coffee beans.

Starting Friday, the prices of grande-size (473 milliliters) and venti-size (591 ml) beverages will be raised by 300 won (US$0.22) an…

Since making his senior international debut in 2022, South Korean judoka Lee Joon-hwan has picked up two bronze medals at world championships and a silver medal at the Asian Games.

Falling short of a gold medal, however, is not something Lee wants t…

South Korea’s tax revenue shrank 10 trillion won (US$7.22 billion) from a year earlier in the first half due mainly to weak corporate earnings, data showed Wednesday.

The government collected 168.6 trillion won of taxes over the January-June period,…

SK IE Technology Co. on Wednesday reported its second-quarter net loss of 48 billion won (US$34.8 million), swinging from a profit of 37.1 billion won a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted an operating loss of 58.7 b…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has replaced the public security minister and chiefs of the ruling party’s provincial committees over severe damage from the recent downpours in the northern border areas along the Amnok River.

The decision was made a…

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday named the chief of a state diplomatic academy as the new ambassador to Japan and a former Navy chief as the ambassador to Australia, his office said.

Park Cheol-hee, an expert on Japan and the current head of the…

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the biggest umbrella labor union, on Wednesday denounced the nomination of a former labor rights fighter-turned-conservative politician for the new labor minister as an “anti-labor disaster.”

Kim Moon…