As SK Bioscience remains just steps away from completing the development of South Korea’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, the company plans to secure the safety data and apply for product authorization with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety before the end of this month. Once GBP510 gets the nod from the health authorities, S. Korea will become only the third country in the world to have dev...

South Korean researchers have developed a computer that can save data even after the power is turned off, facilitating ways to reduce electric power consumption, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Monday. The research team led by Jung Myoung-soo, an electrical engineering professor at KAIST, has invented the Lightweight Persistence Centric System or Light PC, which can r...

North Korea and Russia have developed their ties and sent the strongest ever support to each other on the international stage, as their reinforced relations have contributed to ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia, the North Korean state newspaper said Monday in a special article. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, published the special article to mark th...

Five South Korean lobby groups on Monday called for a presidential pardon to be issued to Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of the family-owned electronics giant, with businesses saying the leadership void is taking a toll on the group even after Lee was released from prison on parole last year. The plea for Lee’s clemency was submitted to Cheong Wa Dae and the Justice Mini...

“We plan to become an eyewitness for those businesses,” Jung pledged. The Korean office also plans to connect local startups with counterparts who have completed the Antler program in other countries. “The startups’ data is exposed to our Antler headquarters and offices around the world, boosting the possibility of global partnerships for startups. Recently, we connected a cosmetics company in ...

Food industry sources attribute the constant growth of ramyeon exports to the global boom of Korean movies, drama and music. Overseas K-pop fans have shown great interest in “chapaguri,” a mixture of Chapaghetti, instant black bean noodles, and Neoguri, spicy udon-like noodles, which was featured in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite” (2019). Samyang Foods’ Hot Spicy Chicken Noodles, or Buldakbok...

Delays in subway operations will stop temporarily as a disability rights advocacy group decided to pause its daily rush-hour subway protests. Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination, Korea’s largest disability rights group, said Sunday night that it would pause its subway protests until next Monday. The disability rights advocacy group said it will wait until next Monday when finance minis...

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 infections fell to the 30,000s on Sunday, the first time in nearly 11 weeks, government data showed Monday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the country reported 34,370 new COVID-19 cases during the 24 hours of Sunday. The total caseload reached 16,929,564. The daily figure dropped to the 30,000s for the first time since Feb. 28, when th...

Controversy over the move to reduce the prosecution’s investigative authority continued Monday, with both the president and president-elect chiming in on the issue. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Monday broke his silence over the controversial prosecution reform bill, asking the political community to “deeply reflect” on what is needed for the people, as the prosecution continues to vocally op...

PARIS -- Young, pro-European and unfailingly ambitious, Emmanuel Macron is the first French president to serve a second term in 20 years, giving him a historic opportunity to leave his mark. The 44-year-old, who came to power as France's youngest ever president, secured victory promising more pro-business and welfare reforms but with a "new method" that is expected to be less top-down. He had b...

Yang, who is based in Germany, has won various international competitions, including the first prize of the 54th edition of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, in 2015. His performance of Saint-Saens’ Violin Concerto No. 3 with Orchestre National de France in 2019 was well-received by critics. The upcoming concerts will mark Yang’s first nationwide tour with an international o...

Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea's second-biggest carrier, said Monday it will reopen the route to India this week as eased virus restrictions unleash pent-up demand. Asiana will offer one flight a week on the Incheon-Delhi route starting Friday after it suspended the route 33 months ago on July 8, 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said in a statement. The company will also expan...

Major South Korean credit card issuer Samsung Card Co. said Monday that its earnings rose more than 16 percent in the first quarter of the year on the back of a recovery in consumer confidence. Consolidated net income stood at 160.8 billion won ($129.2 million) in the January-March period, up 16.2 percent from a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing. Operating profit climbed 16....

The confirmation hearing for Prime Minister nominee Han Duck-soo got off to a rough start Monday after lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and the minor progressive Justice Party boycotted the hearing, accusing Han of failing to provide requested data. The hearing was adjourned less than an hour after it started with only members of the People Power Party in attendance. Before its ad...

Cargo processed at South Korean seaports inched up 0.6 percent in the first quarter of this year, the oceans ministry has said. Cargo handled at the country's ports came to 389 million tons in the January-March period, compared with 386.76 million tons the previous year, according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. Handling of export-import cargo, however, fell 0.7 percent on-year to 331....