South Korea opened their training camp Monday ahead of two World Cup qualifying matches coming up this month, as head coach Hong Myung-bo began his second tour of duty with the men’s national team. South Korea will host Palestine at 8 p.m. Thursday at Seoul World Cup Stadium to begin Group B play in the third round of the Asian

SK 143,000 DN 200 COWAY 66,700 DN 500 POSCO DX 30,400 UP 3,800 LOTTE SHOPPING 61,900 DN 500 IBK 14,040 UP 230 DONGSUH 18,360 DN 270 SamsungE and A 25,000 DN 350 SAMSUNG C and T 146,000 DN 1,700 PanOcean 3,575 DN 130 SAMSUNG CARD 44,100 UP 650 CheilWorldwide 18,360 UP 200 LOTTE WELLFOOD 139,900 DN 600 KT 39,100 UP

Stuck in a lost season, once-mighty Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors have assured themselves of a spot in the bottom half of the K League 1 for the first time in club history. Jeonbuk played FC Seoul to a goalless draw at home, Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, some 190 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sunday. Jeonbuk improved to 30 points

South Korean stocks opened lower Monday with most large caps in negative terrain. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index shed 7.73 points, or 0.29 percent, to 2,666.58 in the first 15 minutes of trading. The index had dipped more than 1 percent Thursday on reports of worse-than-anticipated performance by artificial intelligence giant Nvidia, before slightly rebounding on bargain hunting

GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., said Monday its August sales plummeted over 50 percent from a year earlier due to production delays caused by a partial strike over wages. GM Korea sold 15,634 vehicles last month, down 50.7 percent from 31,716 units a year ago, the company said in a statement. Domestic sales fell

Monday’s closing prices (KRW) of KOSPI 200 stocks traded on the main Korea Stock Exchange. Youngpoong 310,000 DN 5,500 HyundaiEng and Const 32,150 UP 150 SamsungF and MIns 360,000 UP 13,500 Kogas 51,100 DN 1,100 HANALL BIOPHARMA 37,850 DN 2,200 Hanwha 29,050 0 SBHC 19,790 DN 200 TaihanElecWire 12,090 DN 210 Hyundai M and F INS 35,200 UP 400 Daesang

South Korea’s average daily maximum power demand reached a new high in August as the country experienced scorching summer heat that persisted throughout the month, data showed Monday. The country’s peak power demand in August averaged 87.8 gigawatts, a 6.1 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Korea Power Exchange. The increase was driven by the higher electricity

Some foreign professors at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology have returned to North Korea after a four-year hiatus over COVID-19, Seoul officials said Monday, in the latest sign of the North’s further border opening. Late last month, an unspecified number of foreign professors at North Korea’s sole international private university entered North Korea, as the regime has issued visas