Rookie girl group ILLIT’s debut single “Magnetic” secured the highest overseas streams among K-pop songs on Spotify in the first half of this year, the global streaming giant said Thursday.

A solo piece, “FRI(END)S” by boy group BTS’ V, came in secon…

HD Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 357.8 billion won (US$258.1 million), up 808.1 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 376.4 billio…

Samsung SDS Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 190.5 billion won (US$137.5 million), up 11.8 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it posted 220.9 billion won in operating profit for the quar…

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday designated an additional 11 areas in the central and southern regions as special disaster zones to help them cope with damage from recent downpours, his office said.

The 11 — including Okcheon in North Chungcheong…

The South Korean taekwondo team departed for Paris for the Olympics on Thursday, driven to bring home a gold medal three years after the country was shut out in its national martial art.

South Korea will send four athletes to the taekwondo competitio…

LG Display Co. said Thursday its second-quarter operating loss narrowed due mainly to increased production of premium organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for iPhones and iPads.

Its operating loss reached 93.7 billion won (US$67.7 million) fo…

The health ministry said Thursday that it has been considering taking legal action against some medical professors who threaten to boycott training programs for junior doctors.

Some medical professors have vowed to boycott training programs for junio…

LG Chem Ltd. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 59.8 billion won (US$43.1 million), down 91.1 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the April-June period fell 34.3 percent on…