A popular cherry blossom street in Seoul's Yeouido district will welcome visitors during the blossoming season later this month, the first time in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said Tuesday. The street in Yeongdeungpo Ward, one of the most well-known spots to enjoy the spring flower in Seoul, is where the cherry blossom festival is held every year, but the festival has been...

South Korean banks' nonperforming loans shrank in 2021 due in part to debt rollovers aimed at helping pandemic-hit businesses, data showed Tuesday. Bad loans at local banks came to 11.8 trillion won ($9.7 billion) at the end of December, down from the previous year's 13.9 trillion won, according to the preliminary data from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). The regulator attributed the d...

Combined company will help customers take control of their data and address audiences effectively in the absence of third-party cookies NEW YORK , March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TripleLift, the advertising technology company reinventing ad placement at the intersection of creative, media and data, today announced the acquisition of 1plusX, an award-winning first-party data activation platform...

The prosecution appears to be on a collision course with the Ministry of Justice on how the new administration should lead the agency and what rights should be given for the ministry in overseeing the prosecution. Sources said Tuesday the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office recently submitted a report to the Ministry of Justice asking the justice minister to be stripped of its power to lead prosecutoria...

Poland is committed to supporting humanitarian aid to Ukraine amid dramatic geopolitical and international security changes caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, said Poland’s Ambassador to Korea Piotr Ostaszewski in an email interview with The Korea Herald on Monday. Ostaszewski stressed that Poland is helping Ukraine on an enormous scale in the refugee crisis and has received over 2 million ...

ASEAN-Korea Center on Monday released the first clip in a series of videos on the ASEAN-Korea startup ecosystem. The 12 videos were produced in collaboration with the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and the ASEAN Secretariat. Two general session videos will feature presentations by Roh Yong-seok, director general for startup promotion policy at the Ministry o...

Seoul shares extended gains late Tuesday morning, buoyed by institutional buying despite Wall Street losses on rising oil prices and the Fed's hawkish comments on inflation. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 17.27 points, or 0.64 percent, to trade at 2,703.32 points as of 11:20 a.m. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Monday (local time) the US central bank wo...

NINGBO, China , March 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Report from NBGD: an Interview with Jung Hyunmin, former Mayor of Busan , and Cha Minchol, Executive Chairman of the Busan International Short Film Festival . " Ningbo is much more than a port. Important pillars of Chinese traditional culture such as Neo-Confucianism originated in Ningbo . I often tell the people of Busan about this ...

INCHEON -- When the SSG Landers signed former major league infielder Kevin Cron in December, they probably didn't think he'd be hitting below the Mendoza Line about halfway through the preseason. With the start of the regular season less than two weeks away, Cron is batting 3-for-19 (.158) with a home run and three RBIs in seven games in his first spring in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO)....

아기가 말을 배울 때 어떤 품사부터 배우게 될까? 엄마, 아빠, 할머니, 할아버지와 같은 명사이다. 필자는 책을 만들 때 명사부터 영문법을 만들었다. 그러나 대부분의 책들은 동사부터 목차를 만드는 경우가 많다. 그 이유는 명사부터 공부를 시작하는 것보다 더 역동적이고 재미있을 수 있기 때문이다. 그리고 영어에서 동사가 차지하는 비중이 50%이상으로 보기 때문이다. 오늘은 명사에 대한 정리를 몇 가지 해보자. 명사는 문장에서 주어, 목적어, 보어 역할을 한다. 단어의 끝부분이 -ment, -sion, -tion, -ence, -ance, -ness, -ty, -cy, -sis, -th, -age, -ity, -ship, -ics로 끝나는 단어들은 대부분 명사이다. 단, implement(실행하다)는 ...

President Moon Jae-in called Tuesday for watertight national security and vowed to fulfill his duty as commander-in-chief until his term ends, a day after his office voiced concern successor-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's plan to relocate the presidential office could leave a security vacuum. Moon, whose term ends on May 9, said during a Cabinet meeting that his "last mission" is to "fulfill duties as he...

South Korea plans to hold a memorial lighting event later this week to honor 55 troops who died while defending the western inter-Korean sea border from 2002-2010, the veterans affairs ministry said Tuesday. The ministry will host the nighttime event at the national cemetery in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on Wednesday, using 55 lights that represent the fallen troops. The event is d...

A sculptor couple, known for their "comfort women" statue representing wartime sex slaves, has won a libel suit against an internet media operator who claimed another of the couple's sculpture representing forced labor victims was modeled after a Japanese man. The Seoul Western District Court ordered the head of an internet media outlet and another person to pay 7 million won ($5,720) and 5 mill...

Major South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Tuesday it has successfully sold green bonds worth US$300 million to overseas investors. The five-year green bonds carry an interest rate equaling to the yield on five-year US Treasuries plus a spread of 0.95 percentage point, 0.20 percentage point lower than its original offer. The shipbuilder's first overseas public sale of five-ye...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Tuesday that North Korea's recent artillery firing was a violation of an inter-Korean military tension reduction agreement. Yoon made the remark during a meeting with members of his transition team, two days after South Korea's military said North Korea fired four shots from multiple rocket launchers into the Yellow Sea. (Yonhap)