SEOUL, The number of teenagers caught for drug-related charges in Seoul spiked to 235 last year from 48 a year earlier, police data showed Thursday.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency released the data during a seminar held jointly with the Korean …
SEOUL, A group of activist funds have called for Samsung CandT Corp., the de facto holding company of South Korea’s Samsung Group, to enhance shareholder value at a general meeting next month, the company said Thursday.
Five activist funds, including…
SEOUL, South Korea’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba will likely deal a “blow” to North Korea, given the close brotherly ties Pyongyang and Havana have maintained for decades, a senior presidential official said Thursday.
Years of sec…
SEOUL, The average lending rate of major banks in South Korea for home-backed loans dropped for a second consecutive month in January, data showed Thursday.
COFIX, or the Cost of Funds Index, a benchmark lending rate for mortgage loans, came to 3.66 …
SEOUL, The government approved the establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba during a Cabinet meeting earlier this week, but did not disclose it to maintain secrecy around highly sensitive diplomatic negotiations, a source said Thursday.
The so…
SEOUL, South Korea’s exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products jumped 25.1 percent in January from a year earlier mainly thanks to a recovery in global chip demand, government data showed Thursday.
Outbound shipments of ICT p…
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