INCHEON -- Now that she has enjoyed the sweet taste of an LPGA major victory, South Korean rookie sensation Park Sung-hyun wants more of the same.Park returned home for the first time on Tuesday since winning the U.S. Women's Open on July 16 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. At 11-under 277, Park edged out South Korean amateur Choi Hye-jin by two strokes for her first LPGA title and also her first major championship.Park, who'd starred on the Korea LPGA Tour before moving to

North Korea threatened Tuesday to take "physical" actions in response to the United Nations Security Council's adoption of a new sanctions resolution, calling it a US-led terrorist act against Pyongyang.The warning by the North's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee came one day after North Korea's government rejected the UN sanctions over its long-range missile tests and vowed retaliation against Washington "thousands of times.""(Enemies) should not forget that we are ready to ruthlessly take str

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his US counterpart Donald Trump on Monday stressed the need for maximum pressure on North Korea to induce it to change its behavior and choose the "right path," an official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said."President Moon and President Trump shared concerns over North Korea's evolving nuclear capabilities, and agreed their countries must put maximum pressure and sanctions on North Korea under cooperation with the international community t

Public institutions hired some 9,730 people in the first half of this year, missing the target for the period and falling under the average of previous years, government data showed Monday.According to All Public Information in One (ALIO), a government portal, public organizations newly employed 9,739 people in the January-June months, accounting for 49 percent of the 19,862 new workers they planned to hire for the entire year. The initial goal was to meet 55.9 percent of the target by the midwa

(123RF)South Korea has confirmed another case of the cholera infection, raising the number of people infected here to four this year, health authorities said Monday.A 39-year-old Korean man was confirmed to have been infected with the waterborne virus after visiting the Philippines, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.He is now receiving treatment at a hospital and remains in a stable condition, the KCDC said.Earlier, South Korea reported three cholera patients in t

The world's augmented and virtual reality market is expected to expand exponentially over the next four years with their annual growth rate more than doubling, an industry tracker said Monday.The global market for AR-VR products and services is expected to reach $215 billion by 2021, compared with $11.4 billion for 2017, according to the International Data Corp.The compound annual growth rate is projected to reach 113.2 percent, with the market expanding 18.9 times over the next four years. (123

President Moon Jae-in's approval rating dropped slightly from a week earlier, a survey showed Monday, amid advances by opposition parties following a missile provocation from North Korea.In a survey conducted by Realmeter, 72.5 percent of 2,535 respondents said they approved of the president's management of state affairs, down 1.5 percentage points from a week earlier.The weekly survey was conducted on Monday through Friday. It had a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of 1.9 pe

South Korean Kim In-kyung has captured her first LPGA major title in Scotland.Kim held off Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England to win the Ricoh Women's British Open by two strokes at Fife, Scotland, on Sunday, after carding a one-under 71 at the par-72 Kingsbarns Golf Links. Kim finished at 18-under 270, one shy of the tournament record in relation to par.Kim, world No. 21, now has seven career LPGA victories and is the first three-time winner on the tour this year. The 29-year-old is the fifth South

North Korea is seeking to put its scenic Mount Kumgang on the east coast on a list of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, Pyongyang's media said Monday, as it is pushing for ecotourism.North Korea has entered the final stage in seeking to get the mountain registered on the list, an official at the country's institute on biodiversity said in an interview aired by North Korea's state-run TV broadcaster.The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates a biosphere res

In outright defiance of the fresh sanctions resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), North Korea is likely to go a step further to provoke the international community by carrying out more long-range ballistic missile launches and large artillery drills, experts here warned Sunday.Condemning the two tests of what North Korea said were intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) last month, the U.N. council unanimously approved on Saturday (US time) Resolution 2371 designed

MANILA -- South Korea's decision last month to install additional launchers of the U.S. missile shield system called THAAD threw cold water on relations between South Korea and China, Beijing's top diplomat said Sunday.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during a bilateral meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha on the sidelines of a string of meetings hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila.(AFP-Yonhap)  In response, Kang reiterated Seoul's

(Herald DB)South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. registered an average of 19 patents per day in the United States in the first seven months of the year, industry data showed Sunday.According to the data by U.S. online journal Quartz, a total of 4,143 patents were registered by Samsung Electronics through Aug. 1, with a daily 19.5 patents on average.It ranked second among technology firms in terms of patent registers in the world's largest economy, after IBM Corp., which posted 5,797 p

South Korea and China will hold a meeting of senior officials next week over a dispute on their partially overlapping exclusive economic zones in the Yellow Sea, the foreign ministry said Friday. The director general-level meeting will begin in Beijing on Tuesday for a two-day run, according to the ministry. Park Chull-joo, chief of the ministry's international law affairs bureau, will represent South Korea, while Wang Xiaodu, Chinese ambassador for Yellow Sea affairs, will lead the Chinese side

South Korean stocks closed higher Friday, pulling away from the previous session's near one-week low, as institutional buyers scooped up steel and chemical shares. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index gained 8.65 points, or 0.36 percent, to close at 2,395.45. Trade volume was modest at 270.62 million shares worth 4.9 trillion won ($4.5 billion), with gainers outnumbering losers 468 to 335.Analysts said Seoul stocks built up as chemical and