Corporate direct financing in South Korea shrank more than 22 percent from a month earlier in March due to a sharp decline in corporate bond issuances, data showed Sunday.
Local firms raised a combined 20.5 trillion won (US$14.86 billion) by selling…
South Korea has signed a framework agreement with Ukraine to provide the war-torn country with economic cooperation funds, the finance ministry said Sunday, paving the way for Seoul to carry out its pledge to supply US$2.1 billion in low-interest loa…
The South Korean currency has dropped more than 7 percent against the U.S. dollar so far this year, marking the sharpest fall since the 2008 global financial crisis amid geopolitical uncertainties and the resurgent dollar, data showed Sunday.
The Ko…
Prosecutors on Sunday indicted the chairman of a local bakery giant with physical detention on charges of coercing bakers to quit their membership with a militant umbrella labor organization.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office indicted 18…
Military hospitals nationwide have treated more than 700 civilians since opening their doors to the public at a full scale in mid-February, the defense ministry said Sunday, amid the protracted walkout by trainee doctors.
Military hospital emergency…
North Korea’s top agriculture official has embarked on a trip to Russia, Pyongyang’s state media said Sunday, amid chronic food shortages in the North.
A state agriculture commission delegation led by chairman Ri Chol-man, who doubles as a cabinet v…
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