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Samsung to hold first-ever online ‘Unpacked’ on Wednesday

Expectations are running high ahead of Samsung Electronics’ first-ever online unpacking event Wednesday, as the South Korean tech giant is expected to introduce the Galaxy Z Fold 2 with a fuller disp...

Aug 4, 2020
Industry
Nine denied entry for submitting substandard coronavirus-free certificates

Nine people have been denied entry into South Korea after they handed in “substandard” certificates as proof of a negative COVID-19 test result, health authorities said Tuesday. Since the country ti...

Aug 4, 2020
Social affairs
K bank ups ante with non-face-to-face mortgage service

In its first step since resuming operations, internet-only lender K bank unveiled a mobile mortgage loan service on Tuesday, allowing customers to borrow money without visiting brick-and-mortar banki...

Aug 4, 2020
Markets
Kospi notches record high for 2020 amid economic rebound hopes

Buttressed by retail investors’ massive buying, Kosdaq closes at 52-week high

Aug 4, 2020
Money
S. Koreans’ demand for personal credit loans surge 2.3% in July

Korean lenders’ personal credit loans extended to borrowers gained 2.3 percent on-month in July, following the largest-ever increase in June, data showed Tuesday, fueling concerns on the nation’s hea...

Aug 4, 2020
Economy
S. Korea to add 132,000 more houses in Seoul-Gyeonggi to solve supply-demand gap

Government mobilizes all available housing sites, eases floor rules, but refuses to open up greenbelts

Aug 4, 2020
Markets
Seoul stocks almost hit 2-year high on economic rebound hopes

South Korean shares rallied Tuesday, nearly hitting a two-year high, as signs of economic recovery improved investor sentiment. The Korean won fell against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composi...

Aug 4, 2020
Markets
KT CEO urges transformation into platform company

KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo has told executives and employees in a company-wide email that the mobile carrier needs to move beyond network service provision to become a platform operator. The KT CEO’s announ...

Aug 4, 2020
Technology
Treasures of Sinan shipwreck unveiled online

An online exhibition of artifacts from the Sinan shipwreck opened Tuesday, showing the vessels and coins, among other items, that were dug up from the ocean floor during an eight-year underwater salv...

Aug 4, 2020
Culture
Death toll from heavy downpour rises to 14

Damage and casualties continued to rise Tuesay, as a heavy downpour that started over the weekend extended to a fourth day. By 4 p.m. Tuesday, the torrential rains in capital Seoul and provinces G...

Aug 4, 2020
Social affairs
[Herald Interview] ‘We are on an almost different planet here’

Head of international tour production ‘Phantom’ looks forward to Daegu shows

Aug 4, 2020
Theater
[Herald Interview] ‘Race for core assets overseas still competitive amid pandemic’

Korean investors may seek pandemic discount, but widespread demand for safe haven assets makes bargains scarce, CBRE says

Aug 4, 2020
Markets
4% of remdesivir-administered patients in S. Korea show abnormal response

Four out of 106 novel coronavirus patients in South Korea have shown abnormal responses after being administered with remdesivir, an experimental drug conventionally used for Ebola, health authoritie...

Aug 4, 2020
Social affairs
NK has ‘probably’ developed miniaturized nuclear devices: UN report

North Korea appears to have been pushing ahead in advancing its nuclear weapons program, a UN report has said, assuming the North has “probably developed miniaturized nuclear devices to fit into the ...

Aug 4, 2020
North Korea
NK releases dam water without notifying South, in defiance of agreement

North Korea has recently released water from a border dam three times without notifying Seoul, in defiance of an inter-Korean agreement, authorities here confirmed on Tuesday. Pyongyang partially op...

Aug 4, 2020
North Korea

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