SEOUL, A U.S.-led Indo-Pacific agreement on supply chains went into effect in South Korea, Seoul’s trade ministry said Wednesday.

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) was launched by U.S. President Joe Biden in 2022, involving 14 member nation…

SEOUL, Single-person households accounted for 33.6 percent of all households last year, up 3.2 percentage points from three years ago, with more people complaining of loneliness and difficulty dealing with emergencies or sickness alone, data showed W…

SEOUL, Hanwha Ocean Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder by order backlog, said Wednesday it has clinched a 176.4 billion-won (US$127 million) order to build a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier for a shipper based in the Americas.

Hanwha O…

SEOUL, Some 13,000 medical students plan to collectively seek court injunctions to halt their schools’ expansion of admission quotas, a lawyer said Wednesday, as the walkout by protesting trainee doctors continued for nearly two months.

The injuncti…

SEOUL, South Korean shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Wednesday that it has signed a deal with two Scottish economic development agencies on cooperation in the floating offshore wind sector.

The memorandum of understanding call…

SEOUL, Approximately 1,700 South Korean religious people were massacred by North Korean military and other hostile forces around the time of the 1950-53 Korean War, a state truth panel said Wednesday.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said it …