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1.President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged Monday that South Korea will provide 10 million U.S. dollars worth of humanitarian aid to address the hunger crisis in Africa as a member of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, which was launched at the start of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2.The Suwon District Prosecutors Office on Tuesday indicted opposition leader Lee Jae-myung on charg...

1.The leaders of South Korea, the United States, and Japan on Friday held a trilateral meeting in Lima on the sidelines of the APEC summit. In a joint statement, they announced the establishment of a secretariat for trilateral cooperation, and condemned North Korea and Russia’s decision to “dangerously expand” the war in Ukraine. 2.The Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday condemned North Korea for “cro...

1.The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung to a suspended one-year prison term for violating the Public Official Election Act during his previous presidential campaign. 2.According to a U.S. Treasury Department report on Thursday, the U.S. has put South Korea back on its list of countries to monitor for their foreign exchange policies, a...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday departed for South America to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Group of 20 summits. President Yoon is scheduled to first land in Lima, Peru, to participate in the APEC summit, then travel to Rio de Janeiro for the G-20 meeting. 2.Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said Thursday the government will take active steps, if necessary, to address excessi...

1.The benchmark KOSPI on Wednesday plunged 2-point-64 percent to close at 2-thousand-417-point-08, with the market cap falling below 2,000 trillion won. 2.The United States confirmed Tuesday that North Korean troops, who have been deployed to Russia's western front-line Kursk region, have begun engaging in combat operations against Ukrainian forces. 3.South Korea's government said Tuesday all airc...

1.North Korea's state media reported Tuesday that the treaty on "comprehensive strategic partnership" between North Korea and Russia was ratified the previous day as a decree by North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. 2.National Security Adviser Shin Won-sik said Tuesday South Korea is no longer a "one-sided beneficiary" of the bilateral alliance with the United States, vowing to work with the incoming...

1.A consultative body involving the ruling People Power Party, the government and doctors' groups, was launched on Monday to seek to resolve a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, with the aim of producing "meaningful" results by late December. 2.According to Russia's state-run TASS news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday has signed into law a treaty on the country's strategic p...

1.Two people died and 12 others remain missing after a fishing boat sank off the southern island of Jeju on Friday. The Coast Guard said a search is underway, and that the 12 missing are 10 South Koreans and two Indonesians. 2.The U.S. Federal Reserve on Thursday lowered its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to the 4.50 to 4.75 percent range, marking the second consecutive redu...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday held a public address and press conference to mark nearly two-and-a-half years in office. After apologizing for “causing concerns” regarding allegations that first lady Kim Keon-hee interfered in party politics, Yoon laid out his plans for the remainder of term in office. 2.Principal deputy national security adviser Kim Tae-hyo told reporters on Thursday that...

1.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday confirmed the Ukrainian military's first combat engagement with North Korean troops, after a U.S. State Department spokesperson said Monday that as many as 10-thousand North Korean troops are in Russia's western front-line Kursk region. 2.The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Andy Kim, a third-term congressman, won a Senate seat for New Jer...

1.The presidential office said Monday that President Yoon Suk Yeol will address the South Korean people and hold a press conference on Thursday at 10 a.m. to discuss the future direction of state affairs and address a series of controversies. 2.South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, just hours ahead of the...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called for thorough countermeasures against the “illegal” military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, saying the deepening alliance poses a significant security threat to South Korea. 2.South Korea’s Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and his Canadian counterpart, Bill Blair, held talks in Ottawa on Friday and condemned North Korea’s troop deployment to Rus...

1.According to Seoul’s foreign ministry on Friday, South Korea's foreign minister Cho Tae-yul met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington the previous day on the sidelines of the “two-plus-two” meeting, and agreed to closely work together to respond to the North Korean troops' possible participation in Russia's war in Ukraine. 2.The Czech antitrust watchdog, the Office for the Pr...

1.South Korea's military said that North Korea fired what appeared to be a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday, in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Pyongyang's leverage ahead of the U.S. presidential election next week. 2.The Czech Republic's antitrust authority,, on Wednesday imposed a temporary hold on a deal to build two nuclear reactor...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday that North Korean troops in Russia could be deployed to battlefield zones in Ukraine sooner than expected, describing it as a "grave" situation. Yoon shared the assessment during a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 2.The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Tuesday urged the Japanese government to continue...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting that North Korea's troop deployment in Russia constituted security threats to both South Korea and the world, denouncing what he calls "illegal" military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. 2.North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday reported that North Korea’s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, left Pyongyang t...

1.South Korea’s National Security Advisor Shin Won-sik, and his U.S. and Japan counterparts, held a trilateral meeting in Washington last Friday to address concern over North Korea’s recent troop deployment to Russia. 2.South Korea’s finance minister Choi Sang-mok on Monday vowed to enhance market monitoring and swiftly respond to excessive volatility under contingency plans amid weaker growth dat...

1.According to the Presidential office on Friday, President Yoon Suk Yeol said weapons manufactured in South Korea will safeguard Poland's national security, as Yoon hosted a state dinner for Polish President Andrzej Duda Thursday. 2.Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday his country's military cooperation with North Korea is "our business," as he addressed a question about Pyongyang's tro...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged support for South Korea's efforts to sign an additional deal with Poland to supply K2 tanks by the end of the year, during a summit with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday. 2.The White House on Wednesday confirmed that North Korea deployed at least three-thousand soldiers to Russia earlier this month. NATO also said its allies have "confirmed evidence" of t...

1.The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it kept the 2024 growth outlook for South Korea unchanged at 2.5 percent amid a stable global economic expansion. The IMF also maintained its growth forecast for South Korea next year at 2.2 percent. 2.Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Wednesday vowed to make efforts to resolve a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors throughout talks with a consultative...

1.During their meeting on Monday evening, People Power Party chief Han Dong-hoon pressed President Yoon Suk Yeol to remove a group of presidential aides allegedly under first lady Kim Keon-hee’s command. 2.South Korea on Monday strongly urged Russia to take "immediate" action to withdraw North Korean troops from the war in Ukraine, after Seoul's spy agency confirmed the North's deployment of its s...

1.During a ceremony marking 79th Police Day on Monday, President Yoon Suk Yeol urged police to step up efforts to crack down on crimes affecting ordinary citizens, new types of crime enabled by artificial intelligence, such as deepfake, and fake news. 2.The Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute announced Sunday that only 266 people passed this year’s exam, which is less than one-t...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday held an emergency security meeting at the Yongsan Presidential Office, focusing on North Korea’s deployment of combat troops to Russia's war in Ukraine. 2.The Ministry of Economy and Finance said Friday that South Korea's economy continues to recover with solid exports and manufacturing gains, as it presented its monthly economic report, known as the “Green Book...

1. Rival parties won crucial regional by-elections in their respective strongholds. The ruling People Power Party won the mayoral races in Busan's Geumjeong District and Incheon's Ganghwa County, while the main opposition Democratic Party won in the South Jeolla Province counties of Yeonggwang and Gokseong. 2. Senior diplomats from South Korea, the United States and Japan strongly denounced North...

1.Voting for the by-elections kicked off at about 24-hundred polling stations in five electoral districts on Wednesday. The by-elections will fill the post of the education chief of Seoul and four local government heads. Final results are expected to come in around midnight. 2.Senior diplomats from South Korea, the United States and Japan met in Seoul on Wednesday amid rising tensions following No...