SEOUL, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s new film, “A Traveler’s Needs,” will compete in the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival next month, the event’s website showed Monday.
The film by Hong was among the 19 full-length titles announce…
SEOUL, The number of employees at South Korean conglomerates exceeded 3 million for the first time last year, reaching 11 percent of the overall employment at local companies, according to government data Monday.
The number of workers at large compa…
SEOUL, The ruling and the main opposition parties on Monday announced the recruitment of a former Samsung Electronics executive and a former Hyundai Motor executive, respectively, as talents for April’s general elections.
Koh Dong-jin, a former pres…
Three weeks have passed since the start of the year. But the presidential office is still dillydallying over whether to hold President Yoon Suk Yeol’s New Year’s press conference – and how. In August 2022, Yoon had his first – and last – press confer…
SEOUL, South Korean shipyard HD Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering Co. said Monday it has bagged a 491.1 billion-won (US$366 million) order to build three very large ammonia carriers for a shipper based in Central and South America.
HD Hyun…
SEOUL, A Seoul court sentenced the suspect in last year’s attempted rape and killing of a woman on a hiking trail in Seoul to life in prison Monday, saying he should be separated from society forever.
Choi Yun-jong, 30, was indicted on charges of fa…
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Six years after sharing one of the most poignant moments in recent Olympic memory, two speed skating gold medalists from South Korea and Japan, Lee Sang-hwa and Nao Kodaira, were reunited at the very site on Monday.
Lee and N…
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, South Korea collected two medals in speed skating at the ongoing Winter Youth Olympics on home ice Monday.
Jung Hui-dan won silver in the women’s 500 meters at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, some 160 kilometers east of Seoul, o…
