Convenience stores have become the largest market for selling alcohol drinks, a market report showed Wednesday, apparently due to more people choosing to drink alone or with their families.The retail index provided by information analysis firm Nielsen Korea said convenience stores ousted discount chains to become the biggest seller of alcohol for the first time in the first half of this year.Sales increased across the board at convenience stores compared with previous years. For low alcohol cont

President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday said that she would let the National Assembly decide the fate of her presidency.  “I shall lay my course of action, including a curtailment of my presidential term, to the decision of the National Assembly,” Park said in an address to the nation.“Should the political circles suggest a way in which I may hand over power so as to minimize chaos and the vacuum in state affairs, I shall step down from the presidency according to the given time line and legal proced

A former presidential secretary was questioned by prosecutors Tuesday over his alleged involvement in a corruption case surrounding the ongoing construction of a skyscraper in the southern port city of Busan.Hyun Ki-hwan appeared before the Busan District Prosecutors' Office as a suspect to undergo questioning over the case surrounding LCT, a 101-story building under construction in South Korea's second-largest city.The 57-year-old, who served as senior presidential secretary for political affai

South Korea's opposition parties said Tuesday they tentatively agreed to put the impeachment motion against President Park Geun-hye up for a vote later this week."We will quickly move to complete the impeachment this week," Woo Sang-ho, the floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, said during a party meeting Tuesday. Park Jie-won, floor leader of the splinter People's Party, also said the opposition parties agreed to hand in the motion to parliament by Thursday to proceed with the v