The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in April amid the chronically low birthrate, while that of deaths hit an all-time high due to rapid aging and the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. A total of 21,124 babies were born in April, down 7 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest for any April since 1981, whe...

Line Plus, the global arm of messaging app provider Line Corp., said Monday that it will implement a new work system called “Line Hybrid Work 2.0” in July, which includes guidelines on working remotely from abroad. Starting July 1, Line Plus employees will be able to work remotely from anywhere in the world that has a time difference of less than four hours with Korea, for up to 90 days. This w...

Co-star Park spoke about what it was like to work with such a renowned director for the first time. “When filming scenes that had to capture the subtle emotions of my character, the director was very supportive of my decisions. So I had fun performing. I also learned a lot from working with Tang Wei,” he said. After the screening at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, some suggested that the film ha...

Special coverage airs June 20-24 , with a 30-minute program airing June 25-27 HONG KONG , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This month on 'Mission: Ahead' , CNN Innovation and Space correspondent Rachel Crane meets inventors and entrepreneurs from across the globe who are rethinking the way we move and travel. The special 30-minute episode explores how new technology is changing human mobi...

TOKYO , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Japan's biggest ICT exhibition, the Interop Tokyo 2022 (hereinafter referred to as "Interop Tokyo"), has been concluded on June 17 in Tokyo . H3C's AI-native Wi-Fi 7 AP product, WA7638, won the Grand Prize for Best of Show Award in the Mobile Computing (WiFi etc.) category, which demonstrates its outstanding R&D and technical performance. H3C Wi-Fi 7 ...

President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday named the chiefs of the state defense procurement and weather agencies, his office said. Eom Dong-hwan, a graduate of the Korea Military Academy and official of the Agency for Defense Development, was tapped to head the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, while Yoo Hee-dong, deputy chief of the Korea Meteorological Administration, was tapped to head t...

Internet-only bank Toss Bank said Tuesday that it will sell stocks to raise 100 billion won ($77.2 million) to fund business expansion. In a regulatory filing, the company said it will issue a total of 15 million common shares and 5 million convertible stocks at a price of 5,000 won per share. With the stock offerings, Toss Bank's total paid-in capital will amount to 950 billion won. Since its...

South Korea's longest walking trail, stretching 1,800 kilometers along the west coast, opened to the public Wednesday, the culture ministry said. The Seohaerang Trail links an area near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) bisecting the two Koreas in Ganghwa of Incheon to Haenam on the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and its affiliated Korea Tourism Orga...

A South Korean satellite has made two-way communication with its ground station, officials said Wednesday, confirming the success of the country's first-ever self-powered satellite deployment project. South Korea on Tuesday successfully launched the 200-ton Nuri from Naro Space Center in the country's southern coastal village of Goheung in a major milestone in the country's space program. The r...

President Yoon Suk-yeol called Wednesday for stronger measures against the inflow of monkeypox after the country reported its first two suspected cases the previous day, an official said. Yoon instructed health authorities to strengthen quarantine measures for foreign arrivals and to thoroughly monitor the possibility of additional cases, the presidential official told reporters. Yoon also told...

BEIJING , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Third Qingdao Multinationals Summit, Multinationals Promotion - Binzhou was held on Monday in Qingdao , east China's Shandong Province , aiming to promote win-win cooperation between Binzhou city and multinational companies. Photo shows the Third Qingdao Multinationals Summit, Multinationals Promotion - Binzhou held on June 20, 2022 in Qingdao,...

Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to announce mass production of 3-nanometer semiconductors next week, sources said Wednesday, beating its foundry rival TSMC in advanced chipmaking process. The next-generation 3nm chips will be built on the Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology, which Samsung said will allow up to 45 percent area reduction while providing 30 percent higher performance and 50 percen...

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has called for drastic reform of the loss-making Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), saying that the state-run electricity firm's self-rescue plans are insufficient. Han made the remarks at a meeting with Korean reporters on Tuesday after delivering a presentation on South Korea's bid to host the 2030 World Expo at a general assembly of the Bureau International des Ex...

The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War while the risk of such weapons being used is the greatest in decades, a leading conflict and armaments think-tank said. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Western support for Kyiv has heightened tensions among the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, the Stockholm International Peace Research I...

지난 회에 이어, 유용한 비즈니스 영어 표현들을 소개합니다. ‘비즈니스 영어’라는 게 따로 떨어져 존재하는 것은 아닙니다만, 일상 회화에서 흔히 볼 수 없는 표현들을 활용하는 것도 사실입니다. 저희 책 『나는 더 영어답게 말하고 싶다 비즈니스 편』에서 뽑은 표현들입니다. 1 A: The bank is giving us a grace period of one month to come up with the mortgage payment. B: That should give us enough time to come up with the money. A: 은행이 대출금을 마련할 수 있도록 한 달의 유예 기간을 줬어. B: 돈을 마련하기에 충분한 시간인 것 같네 SITUATION 대출의 ‘거치 기간’...