...y 2025, we look to boost our global sales to 1 trillion won ($768.3 million), compared to last year’s 160 billion won. Our goal is to secure a 30 percent market share in the global EV market in the ci...s from partners and client companies joined the ceremony to celebrate the completion of the company’s first US plant on the day. The company touted the V2 as the fastest-charging EV charger ever made...

... federation announced Wednesday it will organize an outdoor cheering event in Seoul for South Korea's upcoming semifinal match at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina. The Korea Football Association ... a.m. Monday in Seoul time, and the final will kick off at 6 a.m. the same day here. South Korea have never won a men's FIFA tournament. The country won the 2010 FIFA Women's U-17 World Cup. (Yonhap)

...released its first top security guidelines, the National Security Strategy, identifying North Korea's advancing nuclear development as the most pressing threat. The newly revised guidelines, under th...es envisioning a peaceful and prosperous Korean Peninsula in 2018. The new guidelines include Yoon’s new security strategy within a context of intensifying strategic competition between the US and Ch...

Fifty Fifty and Tomorrow X Together have extended their stay on Billboard’s main charts for a record run, according to the latest list published Tuesday in the US. The rookie girl group’s “Cupid” slid down three rungs to No. 23 on its Hot 100 chart dated June 10, staying strong on the main singles chart for an 11th week in a row, extending the record for longest streak for a K-pop girl group. T...

The first meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group, aimed at enhancing Korea's influence in the US' strategy of extended deterrence, is expected to take place sometimes "in the summer," according to...t Joe Biden agreed to establish the group during their summit in Washington D.C. to guarantee Korea’s participation in the process of providing extended deterrence by the US in case of the threat of N...

...ather than west. According to data from IQAir, a global air quality company, cities in the country’s central western South Chungcheong Province near the Yellow Sea recorded the highest levels of PM2....micrograms per cubic meter, despite a slight increase of 1.6 micrograms from a year earlier. Seoul’s reading of 18.3 micrograms in 2022, slightly improved from the previous year, placed it 42nd in th...

...al group, staged a protest in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul on Wednesday, condemning Japan's plan to discharge approximately 1.32 million tonnes of wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima Dai...ich a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdowns of three of the nuclear power plant's reactors in March 2011 -- around the world through the seawater. "Japan’s irresponsible actions w...

...niq 5 featuring designs of batik, a traditional Indonesian dyeing technique, according to Indonesia’s top envoy in Seoul on Wednesday. Gandi Sulistiyanto, Indonesian ambassador to South Korea, said I...oniq 5 to happen in August or September without mentioning specific dates. Erick Thohir, Indonesia’s minister of state-owned enterprises, previously posted in an Instagram post in March that he had m...

... lighting. The costume is the work of Russian fashion designer Igor Chapurin, who drew inspiration from origami to create white layered tutus for the swans. The music mostly consists of Tchaikovsky’s original compositions, accompanied by a selection of modern pieces that incorporate fast-paced beats. The standout moments will be the group dance scenes featuring 25 ensemble members who evoke the...

South Korea is envisioning a plan to scrap the limit of 20 English characters on driver's licenses, the government said Wednesday. The character limit -- imposed on driver's licenses and disability certificates -- has often discouraged holders from having their full name displayed. The eased rule will accommodate names with up to 37 characters on the identification cards and certificates, accord...

...e Israeli embassy in Seoul and Israel economic and trade office in Korea where joint investment deals worth around $18 million for robot and artificial intelligence projects were signed. South Korea's leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and Israel's Intuition Robotics signed a contract worth $9.4 million to develop a robot to provide care for the elderly citizens. South Korea's Everybot Inc. and Israel's Inuitive also signed a $8.2 million joi...

Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan (second from left) on Wednesday visited Hanwha Ocean's exhibition booth at the International Maritime Defense Industry Exhibition, or MADEX 2023, held at the ...a Ocean. According to Hanwha, Kim underscored the importance of quickly normalizing the shipbuilder's business management and vowed to expand the Korean defense industry's role on the global stage. Fo...

...ime, Yoon, the KB chief, was named as a member of the committee. Other members who attended Monday’s meeting included Mary L. Schapiro, former chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission wh..., managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; and Um Woo-chong, Asia Development Bank’s managing director general. During the meeting, the members reviewed activities and achievements m...

...d by North Korea at the plenum are not merely cliche, but their repetition demonstrates North Korea’s struggle to resolve the problems,” Choi said. “Unless North Korea addresses these issues, it will ... food imports but also block the unofficial import of significant quantities of food. “North Korea’s self-produced food by itself is vastly insufficient to meet the country’s demand without an adequa...

.... On Saturday, the middle school student was also arrested on suspicion of attempted extortion for threatening a convenience store employee that he would break things if the clerk did not give him money. He was sent home after being questioned by the police. A police official said that since the damage caused by the firecrackers was minor, the student’s actions will not be subject to punishment.