SEOUL– South Korea’s electricity consumption continued to rise in May amid an accelerating economic rebound, data showed Friday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy used 40,842 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of power in May, up…
SEOUL, June 9 (Yonhap) — Unionized workers at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea’s top shipbuilder, have decided to extend their ongoing walkout for another week to up the ante…
SEOUL– All schools in the greater Seoul area will switch to virtual instruction full-time, as the government decided to raise the virus alert level to the highest next week amid…
SEOUL– North Korea has rejected AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine that was to be delivered through the COVAX facility due to concerns about potential side effects, and appears instead to be reaching…
SEOUL– When director Banjong Pisanthanakun saw the South Korean action thriller “The Chaser” (2008) directed by Na Hong-jin at an art festival in Bangkok about five years ago, he became…
SEOUL– The last time Kim Hyun-soo batted below .300 in South Korea was way back in 2012, when he finished with a .291 batting average. The 33-year-old captain of the…