SEOUL: An international cybersecurity exercise will be held in September with the aim of improving joint readiness against cyberattacks, spy agency officials said Wednesday.

The Allied Power Exercise 2024 will take place in Seoul from Sept. 10-12, wi…

SEOUL: The unification ministry on Wednesday struck a cautious note about opposition lawmakers’ legislative attempt to ban Seoul activists’ sending of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border, citing the right of freedom of expression.

In September,…

SEOUL: The financial regulator said Wednesday that toughened rules and the punishment of illegal transactions involving virtual assets will be implemented this week.

The new law, the Virtual Asset Users Protection Act, requires virtual asset exchange…

SEOUL: A heavy rain watch was issued across parts of northern Gyeonggi Province on Wednesday, with 100 millimeters of rain per hour pouring in the border city of Paju, the state weather agency said.

As of 7 a.m., heavy downpours of 100.9 mm per hour …

SEOUL: South Korea’s land ministry said Wednesday it has signed a tentative agreement with Vietnam’s construction ministry to cooperate in city and town development projects in the Southeast Asian nation.

South Korean Land Minister Park Sang-woo sign…

BKK, Police have found the seventh Vietnamese man on suspicion of the deaths of six foreigners. Initial findings indicate that he is not involved. It is believed that one of the six committed the mass murder to escape debt before killing himself.

Th…

President Yoon Suk Yeol has appointed his spokesperson Kim Soo-kyung as Vice Minister of Unification and named Jeong Hye-jeon, a senior administrator at the Public Relations Planning Secretary’s Office, as his new spokesperson. Lee Do-woon, the senio…

SEOUL: Seoul shares opened lower Wednesday as investors locked in profits following a two-session winning streak despite overnight Wall Street gains.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 2.17 points, or 0.08 percent, to 2,863.92 in th…