Private equity firm MBK Partners will acquire Japan’s Alinamin Pharmaceutical for 2.9 trillion won (US$2.1 billion), industry sources said Wednesday.

MBK Partners will buy the Japanese supplement maker from U.S. investment fund Blackstone in a stock…

The Seoul city government said Wednesday it will significantly beef up the strength of pedestrian guardrails and take other safety measures after a deadly car crash that left nine people dead earlier this week.

On Monday night, a sedan driven by a 6…

Police investigating the deadly car crash that killed nine people in downtown Seoul earlier this week said Wednesday they will speed up the probe as soon as the injured perpetrator’s physical condition improves.

The Seoul Namdaemun Police Station sa…

Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, on Wednesday published its English-language yearbook to summarize major changes, events and issues that occurred in the country in 2023.

“Korea Annual 2024,” the only English-language yearbook publishe…

A taxi crashed into a hospital in central Seoul on Wednesday, injuring three pedestrians, police said.

The vehicle driven by a man in his 60s plowed into the emergency ward of the National Medical Center in the central district of Jung at 5:15 p.m.,…

Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer Maserati has launched a sales unit in South Korea, the company said Wednesday, while announcing a plan to release new models in the country each month until the end of the year.

Maserati Korea held a ceremony in S…

Mr. Manoch’, a fisherman, was shot dead by ‘Mr. Somkid’, a shrimper, on his long-tail boat. He said he had been angry for many years and was satisfied, so he intentionally rowed his boat to shoot him. The motive is believed to be that the shrimper wa…

A Burmese man was arrested for stabbing a secondhand goods seller 9 times, causing his death, after he was angry that the deceased had stolen a fighting cock to boil. Police are interrogating him further before sending him to Nonthaburi Provincial Co…