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Korea reports 63 more cases of new coronavirus

Social affairsJul 4, 2020

Korea reported 63 more cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, the number now totaling at 13,030. Local infections accounted for 36 of the confirmed cases. Overseas influx accounted for 27 cases. According ...
Lawmaker tests negative for virus, parliament to review extra budget

PoliticsJul 3, 2020

A ruling party lawmaker who had contact with a COVID-19 patient earlier this week tested negative for the coronavirus Friday, prompting the National Assembly to move forward with a plenary session to...
Court blocks decision to reveal suspect's identity in Telegram sex crime case

Social affairsJul 3, 2020

A court on Friday overruled a police decision to disclose the personal information of a suspect involved in a high-profile online sex crime case. The Chuncheon District Court accepted an injunction ...
Nat'l Assembly on alert after lawmaker's contact with COVID-19 patient

PoliticsJul 3, 2020

South Korea's National Assembly was placed on high alert Friday and even rescheduled a plenary session to pass an extra budget after learning that a ruling party lawmaker had contact with a coronavir...
Samsung to pay up to 100% bonuses for semiconductor division employees

TechnologyJul 3, 2020

Samsung Electronics will provide 100 percent performance-based bonuses to the employees of the semiconductor division next week, industry sources said Friday. The world’s biggest memory chip provide...
Transport Minister meets HDC, Aekyung Group, Eastar Jet execs to urge M&A deal

TransportJul 3, 2020

Transport Minister Kim Hyun-mi met with executives of HDC Group, Aekyung Group and Eastar Jet on Friday to urge their air carrier merger deals, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and T...
Disaster relief fund encourages eating out more in May: statistics

RetailJul 3, 2020

The state COVID-19 relief funds distributed in May appear to have led more people to eat out or spend money on food at physical stores, according to data released by the country’s statistics agency o...
Spy agency chief nominee Park, champion of inter-Korean reconciliation, cooperation

PoliticsJul 3, 2020

National Intelligence Service (NIS) director-nominee Park Jie-won is known for his role in arranging the historic first-ever inter-Korean summit in 2000 and fostering engagement with North Korea whil...
Moon names spy chief as top adviser, reshuffles security ranks

PoliticsJul 3, 2020

President Moon Jae-in on Friday replaced his top foreign policy and national security officials, naming Suh Hoon director of the National Security Office, top security adviser to the president. Suh,...
Yeowoorak Festival to open online

MusicJul 3, 2020

The 2020 Yeowoorak Festival, a gugak-themed festival organized by the National Theater of Korea, will kick off online a day later than its original schedule. As the government suspended operation of...
Show must go on -- even if it means waiting extra two weeks

TheaterJul 3, 2020

Overseas-based artists are continuing to perform onstage in Korea, even if it means going through the two-week self-quarantine periods. Though rules on overseas travel have lately been relaxed -- al...
S. Korean parliament likely to pass largest-ever extra budget in history

EconomyJul 3, 2020

S. Korean lawmakers on Friday are set to pass a bill for the third extra budget of up to 35.3 trillion won ($29.5 billion) in the afternoon, marking the passage of the largest-ever supplementary budg...
S. Korea's top nuke envoy holds talks with Chinese, Russian ambassadors

Foreign affairsJul 3, 2020

South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Lee Do-hoon met separately with the top Chinese and Russian envoys to Seoul on Friday and discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula. The meetings took pl...
Seoul stocks close higher on economic recovery hopes

MarketsJul 3, 2020

South Korean shares closed higher Friday on hopes of economic recovery buoyed by better-than-anticipated economic indicators from major economies, including the United States. The Korean won rose aga...
Four-term ruling party lawmaker named unification minister

PoliticsJul 3, 2020

Unification minister-designate Lee In-young is a four-term lawmaker known for leading the pro-democracy student movement in the 1980s as the inaugural leader of what was then the country's biggest co...