This marks the band’s return to the stage nearly seven months after the release of its 9th EP, “Attacca,” on October 22. Last week, the group dropped its first all-English language single titled “Darl+ing” hoping to expand its presence globally. The band’s latest single, which is a song thanking Carats, its official fandom, likely provides a taste of what is to come. “Darl+ing” will also appear...

Posco said Friday that it has kicked off construction of a new 1 trillion won ($804 million) electrical steel manufacturing plant in Gwangyang, South Jeolla Province, in response to growing demand for the eco-friendly steel in vehicles and home appliances. The steel giant said based on its 40-year expertise in producing electrical steels, the new plant will be producing 300,000 tons of high-effi...

A place of spellbinding beauty, magical moments, unexpected culinary experiences and personal havens PHU QUOC CITY, Vietnam , April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IHG Hotels & Resorts debuts its first resort in South East Asia under its upper luxury brand, Regent Hotels & Resorts , with the opening of Regent Phu Quoc . Located off the southwest coast of Vietnam alongside a UNESCO-design...

SHANGHAI , April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SUNMI, the Chinese loT technology company, officially released the Brand Film Section 3 globally. After "Priceless" and "Change," Thanonchai Sornsriwichai, the famous Thai director, cooperated with SUNMI again. Together with nearly a hundred ecosystem partners worldwide, SUNMI presented the new brand film TIME to reflect on the value of time and the me...

The value of stock settlements in South Korea plunged nearly 32 percent in the first quarter of the year as the stock market remained in the doldrums, a local clearing house said Friday. The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) said stocks worth 1.85 trillion won ($1.49 billion) were settled through the agency per day in the January-March period, down 31.8 percent from a year earlier. Yet the firs...

Eating inside movie theaters, indoor gyms and religious facilities will be permitted starting next week, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Friday, following the government's lifting of social distancing restrictions earlier this week. Eating on trains and express buses will also be allowed as the government further eased COVID-19 curbs comes as part of efforts to return to normal life. "The aver...

BUSAN/SEOUL -- President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday asked South Korean business leaders to work together to ensure the country's port city of Busan can win the bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Yoon made the call in a meeting with senior executives of major South Korean conglomerates, including Samsung, Hyundai and SK, at the Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Yoon asked the business sec...

TOKYO -- Japan's foreign ministry reiterated its assertion that Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, belong to the country in its first annual report on foreign policy and activities under the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The claim, strongly disputed by South Korea that has long maintained effective control of Dokdo with the permanent stationing of security personnel ...

South Korea's military will partially resume a field training program for the country's reserve forces in June, the defense ministry said Friday, in line with eased COVID-19 social distancing rules. The annual field training for the 2.75 million-strong local reserve forces was called off for the first time in 52 years in 2020 due to the pandemic. Reservists had been required to undergo a trainin...

Hyundai Motor Group said Friday it has received 17 awards at this year's International Forum (iF) Design Award competition, proving the "excellence" of the South Korean carmaker's models. Hyundai Motor Co., Hyundai's independent Genesis brand and Hyundai's smaller affiliate Kia Corp. obtained 17 awards in the five categories of product, professional concept, interior architecture, communication ...

Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea's biggest auto parts maker, said Friday its first-quarter net profit fell 14 percent from a year earlier due to a chip shortage and high manufacturing costs. Net profit for the three months ended in March fell to 520.98 billion won ($419 million) from 603.33 billion won a year earlier, the company said in a statement. "The quarterly net income fell as lack of semi...

South Korea's top economic policymaker has said the government will continue to make policy efforts to strengthen fiscal soundness as the country's national debt has grown at a fast pace during the COVID-19 pandemic, his office said Friday. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki made the remarks during his meeting with Roberto Sifon-Arevalo, sovereign managing director of global credit appraiser S&P Globa...

South Korea reported fewer than 100,000 coronavirus cases for two days in a row on Friday as the omicron variant apparently is receding. The country added 81,058 new COVID-19 infections, including 15 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 16,755,055, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The new tally is down more than 44,000 cases, or around 36 percent, from...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's transition team called Friday for "peace and prosperity through denuclearization" after revelations that President Moon Jae-in exchanged letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "I believe it is a great cause of people to achieve peace and prosperity through denuclearization," a transition team official said, commenting on the exchange of letters between Moon...

The music video for K-pop superstars BTS' 2019 hit song "Boy With Luv" has become the group's first video to exceed 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The song hit the milestone at about 5 p.m. Thursday, five months after surpassing 1.4 billion views in November, according to the group's agency Big Hit Music. It became the first BTS music video to garner more than 1.5 billion views. The upbeat trac...