Greco-Roman wrestler Lee Seung-chan missed out on an opportunity to salvage a bronze medal in his Olympic debut, following a loss in his repechage match in Paris on Tuesday.

Lee lost to Amin Mirzazadeh of Iran 9-0 in one of two repechage contests in…

Iran and its allies are vowing bloody vengeance against Israel in response to the assassination of Hamas’ top leader Ismail Haniyeh. Concerns are growing over the possibility of an all-out war between Israel and Iran, the two archrivals in the Middle…

Soon after celebrating her first Olympic gold medal Monday afternoon in Paris, South Korean badminton star An Se-young took an unusual step of criticizing her national team.

In media interviews at Porte de La Chapelle Arena, An had pointed to the na…

A step closer to the privatization of the DP

The Democratic Party (DP) plans to insert the “basic society” so ardently championed by its former leader Lee Jae-myung into its party platform. A political party’s platform is an apparatus to proclaim th…

NHN Corp., a South Korean information technology and game company, said Tuesday its second-quarter operating profit increased 36.3 percent from a year earlier, driven by higher sales.

The operating profit for the April-June period reached 28.5 billi…

A memorial wall engraved with the names of Ethiopian veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War has been established in Addis Ababa to honor their service in supporting South Korea, Seoul’s veterans ministry said Tuesday.

An unveiling ceremony for the wall,…

The number of South Koreans taking their own lives jumped 10.1 percent on-year in the January-May period, government data showed Tuesday.

A total of 6,375 people committed suicide in the first five months of this year, compared with an estimated 13,…

KEPCO Plant Service and Engineering Co. on Tuesday reported its second-quarter net income of 59.5 billion won (US$43.3 million), up 46.3 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the April-June …