Lee Jin-sook, the nominee to head South Korea’s broadcasting watchdog, was appointed by President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday despite protest from opposition parties over her alleged misuse of corporate funds in the past.

Lee, a former journalist at …

Seoul shares ended sharply higher Wednesday on tech gains amid expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve may begin a rate cutting cycle within months. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOS…

Buriram, More than 50 officials and villagers helped surround and chase a large sun bear that appeared to be foraging near a pond at Buriram Rajabhat University. It didn’t take long to capture it and then move it to a cage at the Office of Natural Re…

A total of 201 people have been formally arrested in connection with voice phishing crimes over the past two years since an interagency investigation team was launched to tackle the crime, officials said Wednesday.

The unit, which consists of some 5…

South Korea finished sixth in its first-ever final of an Olympic swimming relay race on Tuesday, unable to overcome an early gap.

The team of Yang Jae-hoon, Lee Ho-joon, Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo posted a time of 7:07.26 in the men’s 4×200-meter…

SK Bioscience Co. on Wednesday reported its second-quarter net loss of 11.4 billion won (US$8.3 million), remaining in the red compared with a year ago.

The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating loss of 19.9 bill…

DSI joins with the Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior, in an operation to hunt down a network of horse accounts from online gambling/Premier League copyright infringement, arresting 2 individuals, causing damages of more th…

Kim Moon-soo, the labor minister nominee, is a former labor rights fighter- turned-conservative politician.

Kim, currently the head of the presidential Economic, Social and Labor Council, became a labor and democratization icon in the 1970s and 1980…