The number of South Koreans taking their own lives jumped 10.1 percent on-year in the January-May period, government data showed Tuesday.
A total of 6,375 people committed suicide in the first five months of this year, compared with an estimated 13,…
South Korea had proposed Japan use the expression “forced” in the museum exhibits on an old Japanese mine complex linked to its wartime forced labor of Koreans prior to its UNESCO inscription, but Tokyo refused, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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Kakao Pay Corp. on Tuesday reported its second-quarter net profit of 626 million won (US$455,372), swinging from a loss of 6.2 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating loss of 7.3 bil…
South Korean stocks rose more than 3 percent Tuesday, rebounding from the previous day’s worst market sell-off, sparked by fears over a U.S. recession and the sluggish performance of big tech firms. The local currency slightly fell against the U.S. g…
