The health ministry on Thursday ruled out negotiations with the medical community over a plan to boost the number of medical students, reaffirming its hard-line stance despite a prolonged walkout by junior doctors that has caused surgery cancellations…
South Korean stocks traded higher late Thursday morning, led by auto and financial companies.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 4.37 points, or 0.16 percent, to 2,710.54 as of 11:20 a.m.
Automakers enjoyed brisk trading, with indu…
South Korea is keeping close eyes on China’s push to list Mount Paekdu as one of UNESCO’s new global geoparks in the name of “Mount Changbai,” the foreign ministry said Thursday.
The issue of evaluating and approving the “Mount Paekdu area” nominated…
South Korea and the United States on Thursday wrapped up a major combined military exercise designed to reinforce deterrence against North Korean threats, the South’s military said, as Pyongyang remained relatively mum over the exercise it has accused…
Prosecutors on Thursday indicted a group of former senior officials of the previous Moon Jae-in administration on charges of manipulating housing price data to make it look like their policies were working.
The Daejeon District Prosecutors Office ind…
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has achieved another milestone, with its 2020 hit single “How You Like That” surpassing 1 billion Spotify streams, the group’s agency said Thursday.
With this achievement, the quartet has become the only K-pop girl group to…
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