Four South Korean ministers traveled to two western border islands on Saturday to solicit residents' opinions over a recent cross-border summit agreement to establish a maritime peace zone, Seoul officials said. Defense Minister Song Young-moo speaks during his visit to a military unit on Saturday. (Yonhap) Song Young-moo, Kang Kyung-wha, Cho Myoung-gyon and Kim Young-choon, the ministers of de...

South Korea's major biopharmaceutical firm, Samsung BioLogics Co., saw its market capitalization plunge this week over alleged accounting violations, market data showed Saturday. The share price of the firm nosedived 26.3 percent over the previous three trade sessions, losing a whopping 8.5 trillion won ($7.8 billion) in terms of market cap. The drop came after South Korea's financial watchdog ...

South Korea's top national security adviser on Friday rejected talk of a possible downsizing of US troops on the Korean Peninsula. Chung Eui-yong, chief of the presidential National Security Office, told reporters after meeting with his US counterpart John Bolton, that such talk was also unhelpful. "I think it's unacceptable that the issue of the US Forces Korea keeps being raised," he said bef...

North Korea on Saturday moved its clock forward 30 minutes, aligning its time zone with South Korea, the North's state media said. The change came a week after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he wanted to unify the time zones to promote inter-Korean reconciliation and unity. The decision took effect at 11:30 p.m. Friday, former Pyongyang time. "Pyon...

The joint Korean women's table tennis team won the bronze medal at the world championships in Sweden on Friday. (Yonhap) The combined squad of South Korea and North Korea lost to Japan 3-0 in the semifinals of the World Team Table Tennis Championships at Halmstad Arena in Halmstad, Sweden. There is no third-place match, and Korea will share the bronze with the loser of the other semifinal match...

(Yonhap) Nearly 500 former and current employees of Korean Air Lines Co. staged a candlelight vigil on Friday to protest abusive treatment by the controlling Cho family, amid rising public outcry over an alleged assault by one of the chief's daughters. The former and current employees at the country's flagship carrier, as well as their families and acquaintances, joined the rally in central Seo...

Prosecutors on Friday rejected a police request for an arrest warrant for a daughter of Korean Air Lines Co.'s chairman over an alleged assault. Earlier, the Seoul Gangseo Police Station said they requested the writ against Cho Hyun-min, who was a senior executive of the company, on charges of assault and obstruction of business. In South Korea, only the prosecution can ask the court to issue a ...

US President Donald Trump has not asked the Pentagon to consider reducing troops stationed in South Korea, his top national security aide said Friday, dismissing a news report on the alleged order. US National Security Adviser John Bolton slammed as "utter nonsense" the New York Times report that came just weeks ahead of a high-stakes meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. J...

Four South Korean Buddhist temples were recommended for addition to the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Friday. Tongdo temple (Yonhap) South Korea submitted an application last year for seven mountain temples to be listed. The list includes Beopju on Mount Songni, Tongdo on Mount Yeongchuk, Buseok on Mount Bonghwang, Bongjeong on Mount Cheondeung, Mag...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for joint efforts to boost economic cooperation between his country and Saudi Arabia Friday, stressing the need to expand their bilateral cooperation to other areas, including the health and cultural sectors. While meeting with the visiting energy minister of Saudi Arabia, Khalid A. Al-Falih, Moon also sought to promote his country's nuclear energy techn...

The head of South Korea's top sports body said Friday he will soon meet with the Asian Olympic chief over joint Korean teams at an upcoming continental multi-sport competition. Lee Kee-heung, president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee , said he will sit down with Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, president of the Olympic Council of Asia, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on May 13. The topics for ...

한 유튜브 영상이 ‘세상에서 가장 괴상한 생물 15종’을 소개하며 20만 회 이상 조회수를 기록했다. 개복치는 비슷한 크기의 해상 생물체 중 몸에 뼈가 가장 많은 물고기다. 자기 방어력이 무(無)에 가까운 개복치는 상어 등 포식자의 쉬운 타겟이다. 무릇 생존을 위해 진화하는 것이 생물체의 기본소양. 개복치는 방어력을 진화시키기보단 3만 개의 무수히 많은 알을 낳아 명맥을 이어가고 있다. 영상엔 독특한 이름의 벨렐라 벨렐라, 멕시코 도롱뇽 아흘로틀 등이 소개된다. 또, 마치 기린처럼 신체기관 중 목이 특히나 발달한 곤충, 타이어 바퀴에 깔린 것처럼 납작한 거북이 등도 볼 수 있다. ( khnews@hreraldcorp.com )

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada promised Friday to actively support Seoul's ongoing efforts to establish peace and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, while offering condolences over the deaths of two South Koreans in a recent van attack in his country. In a telephone conversation with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Trudeau said the attacker will be tried on charges of murder, accord...

A man who engineered the formation of a unified Korean team at the ongoing table tennis worlds still has to pinch himself. Ryu Seung-min, the 2004 Olympic men's singles table tennis champion, said at a press conference in Halmstad, Sweden, on Thursday (local time) that he never expected the two Koreas to come together during the World Team Table Tennis Championships. Now an International Olympi...

South Korea and Saudi Arabia discussed ways to step up cooperation in the energy sector as Seoul seeks to tender a bid for the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear power project, the industry ministry here said Friday. Paik Un-gyu, South Korean minister of trade, industry and energy, met with Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih in Seoul to explore ways to expand collaboration for "Saudi Vi...