The personal information watchdog fined AliExpress, a Chinese e-commerce retail platform, 1.9 billion won (US$1.37 million) on Thursday for leaking the personal information of South Korean customers to about 180,000 overseas sellers without informing …

North Korea’s latest round of its balloon campaign involved around 500 balloons carrying scrap paper and plastic sheets, including those that fell on the presidential office compound in the capital, South Korea’s military said Thursday.

In what marke…

A former tutor of the English-language test TOEIC was sentenced to three years in prison for secretly giving exam answers to 18 test-takers in exchange for some 80 million won (US$57,776), court records showed Thursday.

The 27-year-old, identified on…

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 74 billion won (US$53.4 million), up 219 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 130.7 billion won in operating profit for …

South Korea made a last-minute switch to its mixed rifle shooting teams on Thursday, two days before their competition in France.

The Korea Shooting Federation (KSF) announced that Park Ha-jun, a three-time Asian Games medalist, will team up with Keu…

S-1 Corp. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 43.3 billion won (US$31.3 million), up 5.5 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 52.3 billion won in operating profit for the quarter, compa…

LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), South Korea’s leading battery maker, said Thursday it shifted to a net loss in the second quarter due to slowing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

In the three months ended in June, LGES swung to a net loss of 23.7 bil…

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul will hold talks with his Australian counterpart, Penny Wong, in Seoul next week to discuss ways to bolster cooperation in defense and other sectors, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday.

The meeting, to be held Tuesday,…