Seoul shares erased earlier losses late Thursday morning on gains in automobile stocks after opening lower on a mixed close on Wall Street.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 0.49 percent, or 12.17 points, to 2,457.52 as of…

South Korean snowboarder Lee Chae-un grabbed the gold medal in the men’s slopestyle at the Winter Youth Olympics at home Thursday, the third gold for the host country of the two-week competition.

In the final held at Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in H…

North Korea said Thursday it test-fired a new strategic cruise missile, named “Pulhwasal-3-31,” for the first time the previous day in what was seen as an effort to strengthen capabilities to deliver nuclear weapons.

The North’s Missile General Bure…

South Korea plans to sell 14 trillion won (US$10.48 billion) in state bonds next month, the finance ministry said Thursday.

The country will issue 1.6 trillion won in Treasurys with a maturity of two years and 2.6 billion won in three-year governmen…

Lim Hye-dong, a former professional baseball player, attended a court hearing Thursday on an arrest warrant requested last week for him on charges of extorting large sums of money from South Korean major leaguers Kim Ha-seong and Ryu Hyun-jin.

The 2…

President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday named a Seoul National University (SNU) professor as his inaugural senior secretary for science and technology, his office said.

Park Sang-ook, a professor of the Department of Science Studies at SNU, will assume …