Meritz Financial Group Inc. on Thursday reported its 2023 net profit of 2.13 trillion won (US$1.6 billion), down 0 percent from a year earlier.

Operating income for the year was 2.94 trillion won, up 1.8 percent from the previous year, the company sa…

Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance Co. on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 175.5 billion won (US$131.5 million), down 46.8 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for the October-D…

Meritz Financial Group Inc. on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 372.9 billion won (US$280.6 million), down 4.8 percent from a year earlier.

Operating profit for the October-December period was 568.6 billion won, up 0.1 percent from …

The state arms procurement agency has requested a police investigation into an Indonesian engineer’s alleged attempt to steal technologies related to a joint fighter jet development project, defense officials said Thursday.

The Defense Acquisition Pr…

The foreign ministry called in a Japanese diplomat Thursday to lodge a protest over an annual regional event in Japan held to highlight Tokyo’s territorial claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo.

The ministry expressed strong regret and …

The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold talks later this week on the margins of the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Brazil, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday.

It will mark the first three-…