The main opposition party will make a high-stakes decision this week over whether to sever ties with corruption-tainted former President Park Geun-hye, a source said Tuesday, as it pushes to unite the fractured conservative bloc. The Liberty Korea Party's ethics panel will convene Wednesday to discuss whether to accept its reform panel's recommendation to ask Park and two of her allies to leave ...

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Tuesday he hopes the United States and China will work together with South Korea to bring a peaceful resolution to the North Korean nuclear standoff. "Though North Korea continues nuclear and missile provocations, the government of the Republic of Korea believes that we have to ultimately resolve this issue peacefully while continuing to pressure and persuade the ...

South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo will hold a series of bilateral meetings with chief foreign delegates at the Seoul air show this week, his ministry said Tuesday. The biennial Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition opened at Seoul Air Base earlier in the day, drawing 405 companies from 33 countries. Dozens of government delegates are here to attend the weeklong event. ...

A former Seoul police chief appeared before the prosecution Tuesday to undergo questioning over alleged bribery involving a local businessman. Goo Eun-soo, an ex-commissioner of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, is suspected of receiving tens of millions of won in kickbacks from the chairman of multi-level marketing company IDS Holdings in return for the promotion of a police official. Goo s...

President Moon Jae-in called Tuesday for a transformation of South Korea's defense industry to boost its exports, as well as for efforts to develop advanced systems to enhance the country's independent defense capabilities. "We must widen our view to the world and form joint communities for defense cooperation with friendly nations," the president said in congratulatory remarks marking the start...

South Korea's airlines will impose higher fuel surcharges on international passengers next month due to an increase in jet fuel prices, industry sources said Tuesday. Local airlines didn't impose fuel surcharges on long-haul routes from May to September as the average price of jet fuel remained below the benchmark $1.50 per gallon. But they imposed fuel surcharges on international routes this m...

The chief of the Financial Supervisory Service apologized Tuesday over the financial regulator's alleged irregularities in hiring employees with ties to influential figures, including politicians and bankers. The FSS has been under fire after state auditors found last month that a senior FSS official gave a special favor to some job candidates who are relatives of a then lawmaker and a top finan...

Light drinking can raise the risk of cancers for Koreans who have less ability to perform enzymatic alcoholysis compared with Westerners, a local report said Tuesday. The report by Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, contradicts the established theory that light drinking can lower cardiovascular disease risk and does not affect the risk of cancer. "We need to consi...

The Supreme Court upheld Tuesday the life imprisonment handed down on a Vietnamese fisherman convicted of killing two South Koreans aboard a vessel in the Indian Ocean in June 2016, after he appealed a lower court decision. Prosecutors have indicted the man and his Vietnamese accomplice, both aged 32, on suspicion of assaulting and stabbing to death the 43-year-old captain and the 42-year-old en...

All passengers bound for the United States will be required to undergo a security interview at airports in their countries amid growing concerns about terrorist attacks, the transport ministry said Tuesday. On June 28, the US Transportation Security Administration asked airlines across the world to carry out a thorough security check of passengers bound for the US through interviews and screenin...

South Korea's major home appliances maker LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it donated washers equipped with voice-recognition systems to the visually impaired. Under the agreement with the Korea Blind Union, LG said its high-tech washers were installed at 15 welfare centers for the blind across the country. The donation comes in line with the international White Cane Safety Day, which falls on ...

South Koreans used an average 3.83 gigabytes of data with their smartphones per month last year to rank eighth among member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a report showed Tuesday According to the OECD report, Finland was No. 1 with the monthly data usage by smartphones standing at 10.95 GB in 2016, followed by Latvia with 8.21 GB, Austria with 6.28 GB, Swede...

The Doosan Bears and the NC Dinos are colliding in their third straight Korea Baseball Organization postseason this week, but it isn't just the two ball clubs that will be renewing their rivalry. Managers for the respective clubs, Kim Tae-hyung for the Bears and Kim Kyung-moon for the Dinos, will also be going toe-to-toe for the third straight fall. Game 1 of their second round series, a best-of...

South Korean stocks opened higher Tuesday, taking a cue from overnight gains on Wall Street, with market leader Samsung Electronics Co. continuing to increase. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index climbed 4.64 points, or 0.19 percent, to 2,484.69 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Market kingpin Samsung Electronics was 0.93 percent up after it released upbeat earnings guidance for t...

The Cabinet approved a proposal Tuesday to extend the period of state security services for former presidents and their spouses to up to 20 years after they leave office from the current 15 years. The current law provides that the Presidential Security Service provide security for former presidents and their spouses for 10 years after they leave office and up to an additional five years if they ...