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Police crackdown 3,670 drug offenders in Korea within three months period

Thousands of drug offenders have been apprehended in Korea during a three-month-long special crackdown, police said on Friday. A total of 3,670 people involved in...

Korea to get tough on industrial espionage from China

Korea is set to toughen criminal punishments on technology theft following a series of highly publicized data leaks, often involving Chinese businesses and employees...

Korean investors making bets on the yen

Korean investors are buying up yen to take advantage of the Japanese currency's weakness. They are eyeing foreign exchange gains if the yen stages...

Jay Park to accompany Yoon to Vietnam as part of business delegation

Singer and rapper Jay Park will be joining President Yoon Suk Yeol's state visit to Vietnam next week as the CEO of a popular...

Korea ‘second-tier’ in addressing human trafficking, U.S. report says

Korea was again stamped as second-tier in the annual human trafficking report by the United States released Thursday, for its "inadequate" efforts to prevent...

High labor costs lead owners in Korea to choose unmanned shops

Unmanned ice cream shops, which proliferated during the pandemic, are easy targets for thieves. But high labor costs mean owners would rather have a...

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into East Sea: JCS

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday evening. The missiles were launched...

Tourism businesses welcome surge of Korean tourists to U.S. for first summer season after the pandemic

As the number of Koreans visiting the United States for the first summer vacation season since the end of the pandemic is expected to...

Samsung SDI, GM to build $3 billion battery plant in Indiana

Samsung SDI and General Motors (GM) will jointly invest at least $3 billion to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Indiana, the...

Korean, Chinese consumers show hostility as tensions rise

With the relations between China and South Korea hitting new lows almost on a daily basis, consumers in each country are avoiding one another's...