U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he will visit South Korea next month to attend the third session of the Summit for Democracy, a U.S.-led multilateral platform meant to promote solidarity among democracies.

Blinken confirmed the …

Police vowed Thursday to deal sternly with any illegal acts during large-scale rallies set to take place in Seoul over the weekend, including one by a doctors’ association to protest the government’s decision to increase the medical school enrollment …

Nearly 300 trainee doctors who walked off their jobs to protest the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions returned to work during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, an official said Thursday.

The 294 were tallied as of 11 a.m….

Ruling party leader Han Dong-hoon criticized MBC TV on Thursday after the broadcaster recently aired a weather forecast program that critics claim implicitly calls for support for the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) in April’s general elections….

Inflation could rise over 3 percent in South Korea in February on high prices of global oil and fresh food items, the finance ministry said Thursday, vowing all-out efforts to curb inflation.

In January, consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, ros…

Celltrion Inc. on Thursday reported its 2023 net income of 539.7 billion won (US$405.3 million), down 0.5 percent from a year earlier.

The company said in a regulatory filing that operating income for the year rose 0.7 percent on-year to 651.5 billio…