SEOUL: President Yoon Suk Yeol postponed his planned trip to the southern region Wednesday due to heavy rain, sources said.

Yoon was scheduled to attend a meeting on regional cooperation in South Chungcheong Province, but the presidential office, may…

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 state-run nuclear power agency has been selected as a preferred bidder to build nuclear power units in the Czech Republic, according to foreign media reports Wednesday.

The Czech Republic had received binding bids from a South Ko…

SEOUL: Banks in South Korea are expected to tighten their stances on extending loans in the third quarter of the year, a central bank survey showed Wednesday.

According to the poll of financial institutions, including 18 banks, conducted by the Bank …

SEOUL: South Korea and the European Union (EU) will kick off their joint research projects on semiconductor technologies this month, Seoul’s science ministry said Wednesday.

The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Chips Joint Undertaking under the Eu…

SEOUL: Defense Minister Shin Won-sik on Wednesday called for firm readiness against North Korea’s provocations, his office said, amid concerns over land mines placed by the North possibly flowing into South Korea amid heavy downpours.

Shin made the r…

Songkhla, A rare image of a flock of plain-billed hornbills numbering in the hundreds. The work of a fan of the show ‘Phlap Dusk’ ‘Santi Lee’, a bird and nature photographer in Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, shared for everyone to enjoy.

The w…

Bangkok, Police have announced the motive for the massacre of six Vietnamese people in a hotel room in the Ratchaprasong area. They found that one of the deceased was the person who poisoned his fellow countryman with cyanide. The motive was to kill …