SEOUL– A U.S.-based group of companies that has voiced opposition to commissions major app stores collect from developers expressed support Tuesday for legislative movement in South Korea to pass a bill that seeks to curb the so-called app store taxes…
SEOUL– Justice Minister Park Beom-kye said Tuesday the ministry was working to help defuse tension between the bar association and its members who provide legal aid through a mobile counseling application.While meeting with reporters outside his offic…
SEOUL– Over 1,000 labor and activist groups issued a joint statement Tuesday opposing the parole of Lee Jae-yong, the Samsung Group heir currently in prison, amid speculations that he may receive some type of special amnesty this month.Lee was sentenc…
Michelle Steel was born in South Korea and raised in Japan. Last year, she became one of the first Korean American women elected to the U.S. Congress, winning a seat in the House of Representatives. While running for office, she faced challenges that c…
TOKYO– South Korea did not win a medal on Tuesday at the Tokyo Olympics, the first time that’s happened since the competition began on July 24.But there was still a meaningful accomplishment in diving, where Woo Haram finished fourth in the men’s 3m s…
SEOUL– The recent restoration of long-severed communication hotlines between Seoul and Pyongyang was initiated at a request by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, South Korea’s spy agency said in a parliamentary briefing Tuesday.”(The restoration) was wh…
TOKYO– Weightlifter Jin Yun-seong ended up off the podium at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, as South Korea closed out the competition without any prize.Jin ended up in sixth place in the men’s 109kg class at Tokyo International Forum in the Japanese c…
CHIBA, Japan– South Korea has been shut out of Olympic wrestling medals for the first time in nearly half a century, with its last remaining hopeful getting knocked out early in his event on Tuesday.Ryu Han-su lost to Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed of Egypt…
SEOUL– South Korea’s former Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was named honorary chair professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, the university said Tuesday.Kang will begin her new job at the Graduate School of International Studies starting Sept. 1…
TOKYO– The history of diving in South Korea isn’t exactly long or celebrated, which is how Woo Haram still put his name in the record books without even winning a medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.Woo finished fourth in the men’s 3m springboard e…
SEOUL– South Korean carmakers’ sales fell slightly last month from a year earlier as a global chip shortage and the extended COVID-19 pandemic affected their vehicle production and sales, industry data showed Monday.The country’s five carmakers — Hyu…
SEOUL– North Korea has sent detailed information to South Korea on fishing boats operating illegally in the Yellow Sea via inter-Korean military hotlines restored last week, government sources said Monday.Last week, the two sides reopened all cross-bo…