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(LEAD) Krafton Q2 net income soars over 165 pct on record sales

Krafton Inc., a South Korean game publisher, said Monday its second-quarter net income surged more than 165 percent from a year earlier thanks to record quarterly sales driven by the popularity of its smash-hit title PUBG: Battlegrounds.

Its net pro…

(Olympics) Park Hye-jeong wins silver in women’s weightlifting

Park Hye-jeong captured silver in the heaviest weight class in women’s weightlifting Sunday for South Korea’s final medal of the Paris Olympics.

Park finished with the total of 299 kilograms, with 131kg in the snatch and 168kg in the clean and jerk …

(LEAD) Yoon names vice justice minister as new prosecutor general

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday named Shim Woo-jung, the vice justice minister, to be the new prosecutor general, his office said.

Shim, 53, has been tapped to be the new prosecution chief who will replace Prosecutor General Lee One-seok, accordin…

Police receive 2 reports over N. Korea’s trash-filled balloons

Police said Sunday they have received two reports related to North Korea’s latest launch of trash-filled balloons, but there has been no reported damage or abnormality.

North Korea sent balloons presumed to be carrying trash toward South Korea again…

(LEAD) (Olympics) Lee Da-bin wins bronze in women’s taekwondo

Lee Da-bin grabbed a bronze medal in the women’s heaviest weight class in taekwondo Saturday, giving South Korea its third medal in its traditional martial art at the Paris Olympics.

Lee defeated Lorena Brandl of Germany 2-1 (4-2, 5-9, 13-2) in one …