SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Ocean Co., a South Korean shipbuilder, said Friday its fourth-quarter net profit more than doubled from a year earlier on high-end ships.

The K-pop star opened the Yellow Coin Collection Charity Gala at the La Defense Arena in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, at the personal invitation of Macron. The event, organized by a hospital ...

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Dai Bing met with Second Vice Foreign Minister Kang In-sun on Friday and discussed the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...

1930 -- Cadres of the Korean provisional government in Shanghai launch a political party, the Korea Independence Party, on the nationalist and democratic platform. 1965 -- The second bridge over the ...

Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview broadcast Thursday, portraying Kim as a "smart guy" and "not a religious zealot" -- a description that appears to indicate his view that the North ...

A Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is unveiled at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage in Daejeon, central South Korea, on Jan. 24, 2025, during a ceremony to send it ...

A family of three on a homebound trip arrives to board a train at Seoul Station on Jan. 24, 2025, the eve of a six-day break for Seol, Lunar New Year's Day. The holiday, which runs from Jan. 25-30 thi ...

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- Nearly 76 percent of South Koreans who registered with the government having separated families in North Korea remain in the dark about whether their relatives in the North ...

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- The Bank of Korea (BOK) said Friday it has issued a greater value of fresh banknotes for this year's Lunar New Year holiday than a year earlier.

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Koreans relocating to different residences within the country rebounded in 2024 for the first time in four years amid a recovery in the property market, ...

Banks' lending rate for corporate loans shed 0.14 percentage point to 4.62 percent in December. Their lending rate on household loans also inched down 0.07 percentage point to 4.72 percent on average ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un again, a remark that raised the prospects for the resumption of his summit ...