Conservative parties on Tuesday expressed unease over President Moon Jae-in's nomination of a liberal, reformist judge to lead the Supreme Court, warning it could compromise the judiciary's political neutrality. On Monday, the liberal president tapped Kim Meong-su, the 57-year-old head of the Chuncheon District Court in Gangwon Province, to replace Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae whose six-year term...

South Korean football club Gangwon FC said Tuesday they will move into a new home stadium next season. Gangwon currently uses the Olympic Ski Jumping Centre in PyeongChang, the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Gangwon Province, as their home. But for next season, Gangwon said they will play at Songam Stadium in Chuncheon, also a city in Gangwon Province, located some 85 kilometers e...

Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic aid group, has built 10 greenhouses in North Korea this year to grow vegetables for tuberculosis and hepatitis patients, a report said Tuesday. This undated file photo shows North Korean residents working at a greenhouse. (Yonhap) The confederation of over 160 Catholic charities said on its website the greenhouses were built in Kangwon and South Pyongan provi...

The organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and the United States Olympic Committee on Tuesday announced their launch of a Korean youth mentorship program. In a statement, the organizations said the goodwill campaign is part of the USOC's "Thank You, PyeongChang" initiative, designed to "contribute to the positive legacy" of the first Winter Olympics to take place in South ...

About 100 South Korean-owned cars and trucks left at the now suspended inter-Korean industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong have been confirmed missing, Voice of America reported Tuesday. The report came after the US broadcaster analyzed a satellite photo of the parking lot of an apparels factory at the Kaesong complex taken June 16 by Digital Globe Inc., a US imagery and i...

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will promote "The Frame" TVs during the showcase event for its presumed Galaxy Note 8 slated for later this week. The South Korean tech giant, which plans to unveil its new phablet in New York on Wednesday (US time), said The Frame TVs installed at the venue will display artwork drawn by the Galaxy Note series' exclusive S-Pen. (Yonhap) Samsung said The ...

Online sales of heating items soared last week as the summer season is coming to an end and people prepare for cooler weather, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by Gmarket, a major online shopping mall here, sales of electric blankets from Aug. 13-16 soared 205 percent on-year. The company declined to provided details on the actual number. This undated photo provided ...

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea's top power equipment maker, traded at a yearly low on Tuesday on concerns that it would suffer from the new government's policy against nuclear power and thermal power generation. Doosan Heavy stocks were trading at 17,900 won ($15.80) on the Seoul bourse as of 10:05 a.m., down 0.56 percent from the previous session's close and nearing the...

LG Electronics Inc. introduced two 15-second ads for its flagship V30 smartphone slated to be showcased later this month, which apparently targeted Samsung Electronics Co.'s upcoming Note smartphone, industry watchers said Tuesday. One of the clips showed a page being torn apart from a blue-colored notebook with a phrase, "There's a reason to break up with you." The other video showed a pen bein...

South Korea's consumer confidence has hit a 22-year high for the second half of the year on expectations for the country's newly inaugurated government, a survey showed Tuesday. South Korea's overall consumer confidence for the July-December period stands at an average 78 on a full scale of 100, up 46.7 points from the first half, according to the Mastercard Index of Consumer Confidence. The la...

South Korea's Army conducted a massive counterterrorism training in a southern city Tuesday as part of the country's annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint military drills with the United States. The Army said more than 350 elite troops and 15 choppers, including KUH-1, CH-47 and UH-60, were mobilized in the practice hosted by the 2nd Operational Command based in Daegu. A rapid response team enter...

North Korea's propaganda website has unveiled a video of the country's threat to stage missile strikes near the US territory of Guam, saying that time is not on Washington's side. Uriminzokkiri uploaded a video suggestive of its launch of intermediate-range Hwasong-12 ballistic missiles toward Guam on its YouTube account Saturday in an apparent bid to show that it can take actions against the Un...

President Moon Jae-in was set to begin discussing key policy objectives with government offices Tuesday in a series of sessions which will focus on active debate rather than simple briefings, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said. The meetings will start later Tuesday, involving officials from the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Communications Commission, and will continue until n...

Kakao Taxi is the most popular cab-hailing app in South Korea, dominating 98 percent of the market, while the food delivery app sector is fiercely contested by two rivals, according to a survey on Tuesday. Market analysis company Open Survey polled 1,500 smartphone users between 20 through 40 to find out which online-to-offline apps they use the most for specific needs. Kakao Taxi, run by Kakao...

South Korean stocks opened higher Tuesday tracking overnight gains on Wall Street. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 12.22 points, or 0.52 percent, to 2,367.22 in the first 15 minutes of trading. On Monday (local time), the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.13 percent to 21,703.75. Institutions bought 15.19 billion won ($14 million) worth of stocks, after dumping a combined...