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ArticleSeoul ready for OPCON transfer despite USFK concerns: minister
Defense Minister Kang Shinchul said Thursday that mutual trust between South Korea and the United States is key to the wartime operational control transfer, saying Seoul could assume OPCON “even now without problems.” Kang made the remarks...
ArticleK-DRAMA
TvN’s office drama “The Ordinary Jackpot” has a provocative hook: A corporate worker wins the lottery jackpot, but decides to stay at his desk job. The choice is largely rooted in financial reality. A first-prize lottery winner in South...
ArticleKospi slides over 7% as chip stocks sink
South Korean stocks plunged Thursday as a technology-led sell-off sent Samsung Electronics and SK hynix down roughly 10 percent, triggering circuit breakers on both the Kospi and Kosdaq. The benchmark Kospi tumbled 7.57 percent to close...
ArticleBRIEFING Seoul city audit
Seoul’s Hangang Bus water transportation service and the housing affordability crisis took center stage in Thursday’s parliamentary audit of Seoul’s municipal government. A missile is launched from a submarine in a photograph...
ArticleTargeting LNG cargo tank market
Posco said Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Hanwha Ocean to develop and test liquefied natural gas carrier cargo tanks made from its proprietary high-manganese steel, aiming to expand the material’s commercial use in...