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Number of Chinese visitors to Korea tops 400,000 in March following THAAD row

The number of Chinese visitors to South Korea topped the 400,000 threshold in March for the first time since February last year, rebounding from a sharp fall following a 2017 diplomatic row between t...

Apr 17, 2018
Industry
Pay TV losing subscribers, especially among young generation

The number of subscribers to pay TV keeps falling, especially among the younger generation and one-person households, a report said Tuesday. According to the research by the Korea Information Societ...

Apr 17, 2018
Industry
Fine dust changing retail pattern, triggering demand for indoor products

People staying indoors to stay away from chronic fine dust have changed recent sales trends, increasing the popularity of toys and exercise machines while hurting demand for drones, data from a major...

Apr 17, 2018
Industry
Korea, China to resume consultations on fisheries cooperation amid recovering ties

South Korea and China will hold a meeting on fisheries cooperation next week, resuming the regular consultations that have been suspended for nearly two years over the neighbors' diplomatic feud, sou...

Apr 17, 2018
Economy
[Breaking] FSS chief Kim offers to resign

FSS chief Kim offers to resign. (To be updated)

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Feud-ridden FSS chief offers to resign

The Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Kim Ki-sik on Monday offered to resign, shortly after the election watchdog concluded that his past behavior as a lawmaker violated laws. "I have offered my re...

Apr 16, 2018
Finance
Korean Air temporarily suspends errant heiress

Korean Air Lines Co., said Monday that it has temporarily suspended one of its executives -- the daughter of the company's chairman -- for her alleged misbehavior toward an advertising agency employe...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Experts divided on protection of Samsung’s chipmaking technologies

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Monday its committee on the protection of industrial technologies failed to reach an agreement on whether to give Samsung Electronics’ chipmaking techn...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Questions raised about 3 percent growth target

Policymakers and private economists remain different in their forecasts on how fast the Korean economy will grow this year, following last year’s expansion of 3.1 percent. Most private research inst...

Apr 16, 2018
Economy
Innocean Worldwide makes braille socks for visually impaired

Innocean Worldwide, the advertising arm of Hyundai Motor Group, posted to YouTube a video to promote braille socks that it made with a local fashion brand to help the visually impaired, the company s...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Jaguar rolls out E-Pace, heating up competition for compact SUVs

Sparking competition in the imported compact sport utility vehicle market, Jaguar Land Rover Korea, the local importer and distributor of the UK-based carmaker, released its first compact SUV E-Pace ...

Apr 16, 2018
Automode
Korean Air heiress lawyers up

A legal battle lies ahead for Korean Air Senior Vice President Cho Hyun-min, who appointed an attorney Monday and said that she had actually “pushed” -- not thrown -- a cup of water toward an adverti...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Google Play under FTC investigation in Korea for alleged abuse of market position

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has reportedly begun investigating Google Play over allegations that the US tech giant’s mobile app marketplace abused its market position by pressuring local game...

Apr 16, 2018
Technology
Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug Champix to face generic competitors in Korea

South Korean drugmakers are rushing to roll out generic copies of Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug Champix, as the treatment’s substance patent here was recently broken by a local patent court. The de...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry
Lee Min-ho promotes aronia berry tonic pouches by KGC

Since April 2016, Lee Min-ho has been an ambassador for state-run Korea Ginseng Corp.’s tonic product Good Base: Red Ginseng & Aronia. Now serving his compulsory military term, Lee has maintained hi...

Apr 16, 2018
Industry

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