The 22nd National Assembly was set to formally kick off with an opening ceremony Monday, more than three months after it came into operation, with President Yoon Suk Yeol expected to skip the ceremony amid tensions with the opposition. Yoon’s decision to sit out the ceremony to open the new Assembly and its first regular session came amid the opposition

Urgent push for climate action Asia’s first constitutional court ruling on carbon neutrality The Constitutional Court delivered a notable ruling, Thursday, which could reinvigorate efforts to combat climate change. The court found that part of South Korea’s carbon neutrality law is inconsistent with the Constitution, specifically for failing to adequately protect people’s basic rights by not detailing emission reduction goals

South Korean shares rose Monday, as investors bet on a U.S. rate cut. The local currency slightly lost ground against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 6.69 points, or 0.25 percent, to close at 2,681.00. Trade volume was moderate at 262.5 million shares worth 8.5 trillion won (US$6.35 billion), with losers outnumbering gainers 534 to

Deepfake porn images have sent many South Korean women scurrying to take down selfies from Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms as concerns have been mounting that no one is an exception to the crime in the world’s most-wired nation. “It feels like what should have been the safest place for us, our routine lives, has been violated,” said

RM, leader of K-pop supergroup BTS, collaborated with American rapper Megan Thee Stallion on her new single. The 29-year-old Houston rapper announced on her Instagram account Sunday (U.S. time) that she is teaming up with the BTS star on “Neva Play” due out Friday. A promotional poster for the song unveiled by Megan shows herself sporting blue hair and flashing

Discrepancy in views Yoon administration fails to grasp worsening economic conditions President Yoon Suk Yeol said in a televised briefing Thursday on state affairs that the South Korean economy is on a clear path for recovery and is set to take off in a big way in the future, painting a rosy picture. The next day, however, Statistics Korea data

Renault Korea Motors Co., the South Korean unit of Renault S.A., said Monday its August sales inched up 0.4 percent from a year earlier thanks to overseas shipments. Renault Korea sold 8,451 vehicles last month, up from 8,414 units a year earlier, the company said in a statement. Exports rose 2.7 percent to 7,101 units from 6,912 units a year

1948 — The U.S. military in South Korea hands over police authority to the South Korean government. 1988 — The government announces its plan to open up information on communist countries, including North Korea, to the public. 1997 — A Vietnamese passenger jet crashes near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, killing 65 people, including 21 South Korean passengers. 2001 — The National