The size of North Korea’s rice paddies decreased 1.1 percent in 2023 from a year earlier, data showed Monday, amid lingering concerns over the North’s chronic food shortages.

The North’s rice paddies totaled 533,591 hectares last year, contracting f…

More than 9,000 trainee doctors have left worksites and the number of trainee doctors who submitted resignations topped 10,000, ratcheting up their protest against the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Monday.
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HD Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said Monday it has received a 1.43 trillion-won (US$1.08 billion) liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship order from the Oceania region.

Four LNG ships will be built at the shipyard of Hyundai Sa…

South Korean stocks traded 0.49 percent lower late Monday morning after the announcement of the government’s “value-up” program.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) had lost 13.18 points to 2,654.52 as of 11:20 a.m.

Earlier in t…

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Korea needs to hasten deregulation, innovation to survive in chips race

With the US and Japan pulling out all the stops to reclaim global leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, South Korea risks losing its competitive edge in …

The Seoul city government will provide shared houses at discounted rates for singles to cater to the city’s growing number of one-person households, city officials said Monday.

The project was announced to meet the need for a new type of residence f…