Suicide deaths in South Korea rose about 9 percent on-year in the first half of the year, as underprivileged people are suffering more in their efforts to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, a local suicide prevention agency said Sunday.

A total of 6,…

1899 — Korea’s last kingdom, the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), signs a trade treaty with China’s Qing Dynasty.

1945 — The operation of a railway line linking Seoul and Sinuiju, a border city in what is now North Korea, is stopped amid deepening e…

Police have busted a drug ring that operated networks in Cambodia, China and Nigeria to smuggle methamphetamine into South Korea and seized billions of won worth of the drug from its members here, officials said Sunday.

The drug ring, run by a Kore…

South Korean construction companies’ overseas orders increased 20 percent in the January-August period from a year earlier to exceed US$20 billion, industry data showed Sunday.

Local builders obtained $21.9 billion worth of overseas orders between …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called patriotic people the “best assets” of the state as he marked the country’s founding anniversary with a paramilitary parade, the North’s state media reported Sunday.

Kim made the remarks at a photo session …

The French defense company Thales Group hopes to deepen cooperation with South Korean partners in the fields of cybersecurity and space technologies, taking the decadeslong partnership to another level beyond the defense and other conventional sector…