President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will visit the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) on Thursday and encourage young trade specialists, his spokesperson said. Yoon is scheduled to attend the graduation ceremony of KITA's Global Trade Experts Incubating Program (GTEP) and meet with the graduates of the program, according to Kim Eun-hye. It will mark Yoon's first visit to a business organiza...

South Korea's new daily COVID-19 cases fell more than 100,000 to around 320,000 on Thursday, but the number of seriously ill patients hit an all-time high amid the continued spread of the highly transmissible "stealth omicron" subvariant. The country added 320,743 new coronavirus infections, including 24 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 13,095,631, the Korea Disease Control an...

The number of stock investors in South Korea spiked more than 50 percent on-year in 2021 to breach the 10 million mark amid a retail investment boom, industry data showed. A total of 13.84 million investors held shares in 2,426 companies listed on the country's main and secondary bourses, up 50.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Korea Securities Depository. Those i...

1. The start-up company had difficulties ------- its first year of operations because of insufficient capital and a dearth of experience on the part of the managers. (A) during (B) despite (C) on account of (D) without 해석 -- 그 신생 기업은 불충분한 자금과 경영자들 측의 경험 부족으로 인하여 경영 첫해 동안에 어려움을 겪었다. 해설 -- 전치사 채우기 문제 ‘그 신생 기업은 경영 첫해 동안에 어려움을 겪었다’라는 문맥이 되어야 하므로 ‘~ 동안’이라는 뜻의 전치사 (A) during이 정답이다. (B) despite...

BEIJING , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seraphim Energy Group Co., Ltd. (Seraphim), a leading global solar product manufacturer, has recently completed PV module deliveries of 72 MW to Citicore Power Inc. (Citicore), a well-known community-focused renewable energy company in the Philippines . According to Seraphim, Citicore placed an order for up to 72 MW of its monofacial modules with a m...

Top actors Hyun Bin, 39, and Son Ye-jin, 40, are getting married in a private wedding ceremony Thursday. Set to be held at Grand Walkerhill Seoul in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul, Hyun and Son’s parents, relatives and friends will be attending the wedding starting at 4 p.m. While most details about the stars’ wedding have not been released, actor Jang Dong-gun, a long-time friend of Hyun, is repor...

President Moon Jae-in has recently sold his private home in the southern rural city of Yangsan for 2.6 billion won ($2.1 million), 1.7 billion won higher than the price he bought it 13 years ago, government data showed Thursday. The gains were spent on the construction of a new home in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, which Moon plans to move into after leaving office on May 9, according to C...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is strongly considering nominating former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo as his first prime minister, sources said Thursday. Han, 72, has held a number of high positions in government, including finance minister, prime minister under former President Roh Moo-hyun, and ambassador to the United States. In those capacities, he played a key role in negotiating a free trade...

South Korean shares opened higher Thursday, buoyed by financial and tech advances, despite overnight falls on Wall Street. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) had increased 9.89 points, or 0.36 percent, to trade at 2,756.63 points of 9:15 a.m. Most large caps traded higher in Seoul. KOSPI's top cap Samsung Electronics traded flat, and battery giant LG Energy Solution grew 0...

K-pop girl group TWICE will return for a one-day encore concert in Los Angeles as part of its fourth world tour that took it to five US cities, including L.A., in February, the group's agency said Thursday. The nine-piece group will hold the concert at the 22,000-seat Banc of California stadium on May 14 (US time), becoming the first K-pop girl group to hold an individual show at a stadium in No...

LAS VEGAS , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty ONE Group, a modern, purpose-driven lifestyle brand and ONE of the fastest growing franchisors in the world, was named a 2022 Top 100 Recession-Proof Franchise by Franchise Business Review demonstrating once again that the company is ONE of the most attractive in franchising from a financial, brand and lifestyle perspective. Last year, the ...

LA VERGNE, Tenn. , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SVP Worldwide, the global leader in household sewing machines, announces that it has acquired Jaguar International Corporation's sewing machine manufacturing operations and product engineering organization. The facility, based in Vietnam , is one of the largest factories of household sewing machines in the world. The acquisition will strengt...

Former major league stars will visit Seoul in September for a global home run derby competition. Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Wednesday (US time) that its new bracket-style competition, called "Home Run Derby X," will make a stop in the South Korean capital on Sept. 17. London will host the event on July 9, and Mexico City will also get its look at former big league sluggers on Oct. 15...

North Korea reiterated calls for the ruling party's propaganda officials to help weed out anti-socialist and non-socialist practices, as it wrapped up a three-day workshop, according to state media Thursday. The workshop for officials in the information field of the ruling Workers' Party concluded the previous day with a study session on prioritizing ideological work as the "very core of the Par...

Prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in South Korea will increase nearly 2 percent in April due to rising international energy prices, the industry ministry said Thursday. LNG rates for households, restaurants, hotels and other commercial users will go up by an average 1.8 percent on April 1, according to the ministry. With the rate increase, households are expected to pay 860 won ($0.71) more...