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September 24, 2020 Travel

South Korea to resume flights with Vietnam, Russia

South Korea said Thursday it has agreed with Vietnam and Russia to resume flights following months of suspension over the new coronavirus outbreak. Flights linking Incheon, west of Seoul, with Vietn...

Top diplomats of S. Korea, Ecuador hold phone talks on COVID-19 response

The top diplomats of South Korea and Ecuador held telephone talks Thursday to discuss joint responses to the new coronavirus and the ongoing campaign of Seoul's trade minister for the director-genera...

September 24, 2020
Politics
Founder of Eastar quits ruling party amid probe into airline's mass layoffs

Rep. Lee Sang-jik of the ruling Democratic Party, the founder of the embattled low-cost airline Eastar Jet, said he will leave the party Thursday amid a probe into unpaid wages and mass layoffs at th...

September 24, 2020
Politics
S. Korea blocks access to 'Digital Prison' website

South Korea's internet censorship body on Thursday decided to block public access to a controversial doxing website that discloses personal information of alleged sex offenders and pedophiles over co...

September 24, 2020
Social affairs
Rival parties denounce North's fatal shooting of S. Korean official

Rival political parties on Thursday expressed strong regrets over the North Korean military's fatal shooting of a South Korean official, denouncing it as "unpardonable brutality." "The North Korean ...

September 24, 2020
North Korea
Seoul stocks tumble to over 1-month low on withering global

South Korean shares plunged to a more than one-month low on Thursday, as investors turned risk-averse following overnight Wall Street decline over withering hopes of a quick economic recovery. The Ko...

September 24, 2020
Markets
Renault Samsung to suspend plant operations amid pandemic

Renault Samsung Motors Corp. said Thursday it will suspend its sole plant in South Korea until mid-October to control inventories amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Renault Samsung will halt the operation ...

September 24, 2020
Economy
Ill-fated fisheries official said to have financial problems

The low-ranking South Korean fisheries official who was shot and burned by North Korea earlier this week after going missing in the Yellow Sea had financial problems, his colleagues said Thursday. T...

September 24, 2020
Politics
Biz community anxious about 'anti-corporate' regulations

South Korean business lobby groups said Thursday a series of bills that they claim would hurt corporate activities should be further discussed as they will have a far-reaching impact on their busines...

September 24, 2020
Economy
4th-year medical students willing to take licensing exam

Fourth-year medical students are willing to take the state medical licensing exam after boycotting it in protest of the government's medical workforce reform plan, their representatives said Thursday...

September 24, 2020
Social affairs
Dolby Labs signs cinema solutions supply deal with S. Korean multiplex operator

Dolby Laboratories Inc., a US-based audio and imaging technology giant, said Thursday it has signed a deal to supply its advanced cinema solutions to local multiplex operator Megabox for the next fiv...

September 24, 2020
Industry
In call with Suga, Moon urges Japan to resolve forced labor issue

South Korean President Moon Jae-in had phone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday, during which he proposed that the two countries seek an "optimum" resolution to the wartime...

September 24, 2020
Politics
S. Korean economy to worsen in H2 on virus impact: KERI

South Korea's economy is expected to deteriorate further in the second half of the year due to the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, a leading private think tank said Thursday. Asia's fourth-largest e...

September 24, 2020
Economy
COVID-19 dries up charity funds, donations ahead of Chuseok

COVID-19 is weighing heavily on charities this Chuseok season, with funds drying up and volunteers slow to offer their services due to fear of the virus. Chuseok, the Korean equivalent of Thanksgivi...

September 24, 2020
Social affairs
Over 2 in 10 S. Korean firms unlikely to service their debts

More than two in every 10 South Korean listed companies are unlikely to service their debts with earnings this year due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, South Korea's central bank said T...

September 24, 2020
Economy

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