Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won't take any options off the table in dealing with North Korea, including a preemptive strike on the communist nation, top foreign policy advisers to the two sides said Tuesday."The secretary and her team have made clear that North Korea is an urgent matter that requires focused American attention working closely with allies and partners," former Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, a key adviser to Clinton, said during a discussion in Washington in

Sales of South Korea's top 10,000 companies exceeded the 1,900 trillion-won ($1.71 trillion) mark in 2015, with the top 4 percent accounting for more than 70 percent of the total, data showed Tuesday.According to the data by the Korea 20000 Corporate Research Institute, the combined revenue of the firms that close their books on Dec. 31 reached 1,910 trillion won last year.A total of 219 corporations posted sales of 1 trillion won or more, with the largest number of 4,802 firms registering sales

South Korean shares opened slightly lower Tuesday as market kingpin Samsung Electronics took a beating over its decision to halt global sales of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone that had already been under a global recall for battery-related problems.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index slipped 0.81 point, or 0.04 percent, to 2,056.01 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Most large caps were in positive terrain with leading automaker Hyundai Motor advancing 1.50 percent and top portal opera

A group of South Korean scientists has developed new battery material, the science ministry said Monday, in what could bring significant changes to mobile devices and electronic cars.The team led by Kang Jeong-ku of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology discovered a hybrid type of battery that can charge up to 100 times faster than lithium-ion batteries, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said. Lithium-ion batteries have so far governed the global rechargeable batt