Looking to shake off a setback from his main event on the weekend, Hwang Sun-woo squeezed into the semifinals of the men’s 100-meter freestyle swimming at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.

Hwang finished his race in 48.41 seconds to rank 16th overall i…

Samsung SDI Co. on Tuesday reported its second-quarter net income of 301.2 billion won (US$217.6 million), down 38 percent from a year earlier.

Operating profit for the April-June period was 280.2 billion won, down 37.8 percent from a year ago, the …

The amount of container cargo processed at South Korean seaports increased 6.4 percent in the second quarter, data showed Tuesday, driven by stronger shipments to the United States and China.

The container cargo handled at the country’s ports nation…

Delivery services for food and light daily necessities using unmanned drones will begin next month across 32 select islands and 17 parks throughout the country, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Tuesday.

The island regions wher…

They may be seven years apart in age but South Korean table tennis players Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin couldn’t have been much closer in their partnership in Paris.

Lim, 27, and Shin, 20, joined forces for the bronze medal in the mixed doubles eve…

Khon Kaen, Police are preparing to press three serious charges against a driver of a popular ride-hailing app who sexually harassed a 20-year-old woman who requested a ride-hailing service to her residence in Khon Kaen Province.

Progress in the case…

The troubled e-commerce platforms TMON and WeMakePrice have liquidity issues involving over 1 trillion won (US$722.02 million) and there was suspected illegality regarding their payment delay incident, the financial regulator said Tuesday.

Lee Bok-h…

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s leading automobile manufacturers, have significantly increased their data security-related investments in recent years in line with the strengthening of software capabilities in their vehicles, industry …