Fair Trade Commission Chairman Han Ki-jeong on Monday vowed that the antitrust regulator will seek ways to protect Korean consumers from the possible negative influence of the EU’s new law targeting global big tech companies. The EU’s Digital Market Act, which will come into force this year, aims to prevent global tech giants from abusing their market power and ensure a higher degree of competit...

...ons with witnesses. At the end of each episode, the participants cast votes for whom they think are the suspects in the case. Premiered in 2014, “Crime Scene” is widely considered one of South Korea’s biggest mystery shows, featuring the cast’s psychological warfare, unique role-playing games and story lines, adapted from true incidents that occurred in Korea and around the world. An SLL official told The Korea Herald that the cast has ye...

...oring copyright infringement cases in all language services offered by Kakao Entertainment in 2021, it has found almost 9.2 million pieces of illegal webtoon content,” the head of Kakao Entertainment's legal department, Lee Ho-jun, said in a press release Monday. “In addition to P.Cok’s current tasks, the team seeks to offer programs aimed at raising webtoon readers' awareness of copyright issues and establish a database that could be used to file criminal complaints against pirate...

Posco International said Monday its Vice Chairman Jeong Tak has been named as the company’s new CEO during a shareholders’ meeting held at its headquarters in Incheon, west of Seoul -- the first meet..., head of the trading division, and Lee Jeon-hyuk, head of the energy division, showing the company’s balanced commitment to core businesses. Han Jong-soo, an accounting and financial expert, and Jeo...

...that connects home appliances and consumer electronics with smart technology for higher efficiency, at the Connectivity Standards Alliance member meeting in Seoul. Jung Ki-hyun, vice president of LG's platform business center, attended the four-day event as a keynote speaker and shared the company's vision for providing more consumer-friendly smart home services. He outlined three core values of ThinQ: advancement, connectivity and openness. “LG ThinQ will soon serve as a partner that enhance...

...k Yeol administration could make better use of its recent deal on Korean victims who suffered Japan’s forced labor during its rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45, if it addresses a split public ...two-day summit between Yoon and his Japanese counterpart that ended Friday in Tokyo reaffirmed Yoon’s March 6 proposal. It breaks down to delaying the pursuit of a specific apology and direct compensa...

Daewoo Engineering & Construction is ramping up efforts for South Korean construction companies' foray into Iraq, according to the company Monday. Daewoo E&C's CEO Baek Jung-wan and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Cho Seung-hwan recently visited Iraq’s Al Faw port construction site, in a bid to facilitate domestic companies' entry into Iraq's Al Faw Port Development Project -- a project which aims...

...ce Center in Brazil at 2:52 p.m. on Sunday local time. “We will announce the results of the engine’s flight performance and whether the payload’s mission ends up in a success after a comprehensive an...e and connection errors between systems. Innospace’s launch was the first rocket blastoff by Korea’s private sector. According to the company, the Hanbit-TLV was also the world’s first launch of a hy...

Blackpink's Jisoo is set to launch her solo career with her new song "Flower." YG Entertainment on Monday unveiled the title of Jisoo's first solo song and released the track's title poster. The poster shows Jisoo lying over what appear to be red flower petals as they wrap around the singer. Dressed in jet-black, Jisoo gazes flirtatiously into the camera. "Flower" is the main track of Jisoo's u...

...ritage at its mines around the world, according to an independent audit of its practices, the world's biggest iron ore miner said on Monday. Rio Tinto commissioned the audit as part of a pledge to ov...rn Australia for an iron ore mine in 2020. The report noted improved practices particularly at Rio's iron ore operations but found it needed to more consistently meet best practice standards, which i...

Rhee Keun, a Korean YouTuber and former Korean Navy special forces officer who went to Ukraine a year ago to help the country's defense against Russia, on Monday admitted to charges of violating passport law. Rhee was indicted in January on charges of traveling to the war-stricken country in defiance of a travel ban. In March last year, Rhee entered the European country to help the Ukrainian for...

...t military exercises that South Korea and the US have staged in years in light of escalating North Korean threats. North Korea labeled the missile launches as live-fire drills to enhance the country’s war deterrence and tit-for-tat military actions against the alliance’s 11-day Freedom Shield exercise that began on March 13. South Korea’s Vice Defense Minister Shin Beom-chul dismissed North Korea’s series of missile launches as a “calculated overreaction” to combin...

For the first time since their debut, Le Sserafim hosted a fan meet during the weekend at the Olympic Hall in Seoul. The fan meet, called “Fearnada 2023 S/S,” featured special performances by the five-member K-pop girl group for their fandom Fearnot. Le Sserafim kicked off the event with a performance of “No Celestial,” a side track of their second mini album, and “Antifragile,” the titular tra...

Relief goods are shipped to Korean Air’s special charter flight before it departs for Turkey on Monday. The Boeing 777 freighter carried 45 tons of relief goods, including tents, sleeping bags and blankets, to be delivered to the area hit by the Turkey-Syria tearthquake in February.

With the South Korean government’s goal to develop Gwangju into a global artificial intelligence-centered city, Samsung has chosen five local startups centering on related business for the first year...bined 60.1 trillion won over the next decade for the country’s manufacturing business in rural areas to pursue balanced regional development and boost each region’s competitive edge to a global level.