The potential uncollected loans by four major financial holding firms jumped 49 percent on year in 2023, as high interest rates took a toll on borrowers, data showed Tuesday.
The value of potential uncollected loans came to 1.96 trillion won (US$1.4…
Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Tuesday that trainee doctors would face legal punishment, including suspension of their licenses, unless they go back to work by the Thursday deadline, stepping up warnings against thousands of junior doctors who le…
South Korean stocks started lower Tuesday as investors took a cautious mode ahead of major U.S. economic data releases later this week, including the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (…
Kolon Industries Inc. on Tuesday reported its fourth-quarter net loss of 8 billion won (US$6 million), turning from a profit of 25.5 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the October-December p…
President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday the government’s plan to raise the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 is a “minimum necessary measure” aimed at addressing a shortage of doctors with no room for negotiation or compromise.
Trainee doctors p…
The government on Tuesday stepped up its hard-line approach to doctors protesting against its plan to boost medical students, taking the first legal action since the start of a mass walkout by junior doctors about a week ago.
The Ministry of Health …
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