Washington may have expected its multilayered semiconductor restrictions on Beijing, dating back to the Biden-era export curbs in 2022, to gradually reduce Samsung Electronics’ and SK hynix’s reliance on their Chinese production...
— A person cools off in a fountain at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on the afternoon of Aug. 23 as a heat wave advisory is in effect across Korea. Seoul’s high temperature reached 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 degrees Fahrenheit) that day,...
Samsung Electronics announced its largest shareholder return plan in Korean corporate history. However, investor enthusiasm did not last even a day. Samsung Electronics’ board approved Friday a plan to return about 90 trillion won to 110...
South Korea is moving to bolster its wartime interceptor stockpile with additional U.S.-made short-range air-toair missiles as North Korea expands its cruise missile and suicide drone capabilities. But questions remain over whether the...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unconventional brand of bluffing has now put both Koreas in the spotlight. Trump recently claimed that he communicated with both South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but...
JEJU — A Jeju police officer is under arrest for falsely closing a case involving a missing woman and allegedly using the same false claim to close the file on another disappearance, which police are now reviewing after the second missing...
— The statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul shines in the first image and stands dark in the second on Aug. 22, as the “Nationwide Simultaneous 10-Minute Lights-Out Event” commemorates the 23rd Energy Day. The...
Illegal lodging operators are exploiting a loophole to rent out office buildings and mixed-purpose properties to foreign tourists across Seoul, dodging regulators by hiding their listings from domestic users while advertising freely to...