New steps needed as workplace safety law’s two-year grace period for small firms ends
Concerns are mounting as the two-year grace period for small firms on a workplace safety law is set to expire this week, after major parties failed to agree on gra…
SEOUL, Former ruling party leader Lee Jun-seok and independent lawmaker Yang Hyang-ja agreed Wednesday to merge their parties ahead of April’s general elections.
Lee quit the ruling People Power Party (PPP) last month and launched the Reformative Co…
SEOUL, South Korea’s consumer sentiment rose for a second consecutive month in January amid moderating inflation, a recovery in exports and hopes for an end in the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes, a central bank poll showed Wednesday.
The composite con…
SEOUL, Corporate direct financing in South Korea jumped more than 20 percent from a year earlier in 2023, led by a sharp increase in financial bond sales, data showed Wednesday.
Local companies raised a combined 245.66 trillion won (US$184.3 billion…
SEOUL, With one group match remaining at the Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup, South Korea face a rather interesting conundrum.
If they beat Malaysia convincingly to close out Group E play Thursday in Qatar, South Korea could win their group a…
SEOUL, For the first time since taking over the Malaysian men’s national football team two years ago, South Korean-born coach Kim Pan-gon will be going up against his native country.
It will be the teams’ final Group E match of the Asian Football Co…
Abuja: At a bustling food market in Nigeria’s capital, Mummy Christiana breaks down in tears as she describes how a conflict thousands of kilometers away leaves her family struggling to