NCT 127 draws 700,000 spectators in 2nd world tour
SEOUL-- K-pop boy band NCT 127 has completed its second world tour, "Neo City:The Link," which has drawn some 700,000 spectators in 17 major cities, its management agency SM Entertainment…
January 30, 2023
S. Korea, Japan to hold working-level consultations on wartime forced labor
SEOUL-- South Korea and Japan will hold working-level diplomatic consultations Monday on ways to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor under 2018 rulings by Seoul's Supreme Court.Seo Min-jung,…
Disgraced Seoul education chief appeals abuse of power conviction
SEOUL-- Seoul's top education official on Monday appealed his recent conviction related to the 2018 reinstatement of dismissed teachers.Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, was sentenced…
BOK to sell 11 tln won worth of monetary stabilization bonds in Feb
SEOUL-- South Korea's central bank said Monday it will sell 11 trillion won (US$8.96 billion) worth of monetary stabilization bonds (MSBs) in February.The amount is 1 trillion won larger than…
Seoul stocks snap 5-day winning streak on tech, auto losses; Korean won at 9-month high
SEOUL-- Seoul stocks snapped their five-day winning streak Monday, weighed by losses in major tech shares ahead of the U.S. central bank's rate-decision meeting and exports data from Asia's fourth-largest…
Yoon approves 100 bln won in reserve funds for heating bills
SEOUL-- President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday approved 100 billion won (US$81.4 million) in reserve government funds for emergency use in supporting vulnerable groups with soaring heating bills, his office…