Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok called for close market monitoring over delays in payment by e-commerce platforms TMON and WeMakePrice, and all-out efforts to prevent damage to sellers and customers, the finance ministry said Thursday.

Choi made the r…

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its second-quarter net profit rose 25 percent from a year earlier helped by an improved product mix and a weak won.

Net profit for the three months ended on June 30 climbed to 4.17 trillion won (US$3.01 b…

South Korean archer Lim Si-hyeon set a world record in the women’s ranking round of the Paris Olympics on Thursday, as her Summer Games debut got off to a rousing start.

Lim scored 694 out of a possible 720 points at Les Invalides in Paris, finishing…

Hyundai Motor Co on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 4.17 trillion won (US$3 billion), up 24.7 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the April-June period rose 0.7 percent on-…

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo attended the state funeral of Vietnam’s highest-ranking official, Nguyen Phu Trong, in Hanoi on Thursday, his office said.

Han left for Vietnam the previous day to attend the funeral of the general secretary of the Communi…

SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it shifted to a profit in the second quarter on solid sales of its premium artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips.

The world’s second-largest memory chipmaker posted an operating profit of 5.46 trillion won (US$3.95 bil…

Doosan Robotics Inc. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net loss of 3.7 billion won (US$2.7 million), remaining in the red compared with a year ago.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating loss of 7.9 billi…