SEOUL, South Korea’s consumer prices slowed to an 11-month low in June, though prices of fresh food items and petroleum products remained high, data showed Tuesday.

Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.4 percent on-year last month, comp…

SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol called Tuesday for scientific safety measures to address rising concerns over hard-to-extinguish fires after a lithium battery plant went up in flames last week and killed nearly two dozen workers.

Yoon made the remark…

Ratchaburi, Water hyacinth, from worthless weeds, is woven into various pieces of work, generating income for the family.

Water hyacinth is a weed that can reproduce quickly. If not eliminated, it will affect the environment and block waterways. How…

Bangkok, The authorities raided an online gambling den that used snooker tables as a front in a parking lot of a famous shopping mall in the Pinklao area.

Administrative officers raided an online gambling den located in a parking lot of a shopping m…

SEOUL, The unification ministry on Tuesday unveiled newly declassified documents shedding light on inter-Korean talks on sports and humanitarian cooperation from 1981-87, following North Korea’s deadly bombing attack in then Burma in 1983.

The dossi…

SEOUL, South Korean stocks fell sharply Tuesday ahead of key economic events in the United States later this week. The local currency traded weaker against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 23.45 points, o…

South Korea’s exports extended on-year gains to the ninth straight month in June on the back of record performance of semiconductors, data showed Monday.

Outbound shipments rose 5.1 percent on-year to US$57 billion last month, according to the data …

Renault Korea Motors Co., the South Korean unit of French auto group Renault S.A., has apologized following an online backlash over purported misandry imagery contained in the company’s YouTube videos.

On Saturday, Renault Korea blocked public acces…