South Korea’s top financial regulator has contracted COVID-19, the Financial Services Commission said Monday. Financial Services Commission Chairman Koh Seung-beom tested positive for the novel coronavirus before noon despite having received three doses of a vaccine, the FSC said in a statement. Koh has no plans to be hospitalized at the moment and is currently self-isolated at home. He has yet...

Enhypen is releasing a digital single named “Always” in Japan on Feb. 22, said agency Belift Lab on Monday. It will be the band’s second original Japanese song, following “Forget Me Not” from its debut single in Japan “Border: Hakanai.” The song was selected as the theme song for NTV’s Wednesday drama “Muchaburi!” that started airing last month. “We hope to give strength to everyone w...

The vocalist also spoke of his bandmates when asked how they helped his solo journey. The singer said being the third Day6 member to debut as a soloist was pushing the envelope for him. But Wonpil showed appreciation toward his bandmates, saying how they encouraged him throughout his en route to solo. Wonpil got his foot in the door as a member of boy band Day6 in 2015 and has since earned his s...

The last two years of the pandemic in South Korea have been punctuated by similar, preventable tragedies, and this will stop with Yoon Suk-yeol as president, according to his top COVID-19 adviser. Dr. Jung Ki-suck, who served as the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016-17 in the immediate aftermath of the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, joined the...

Further strengthens its offerings to the retail industry BANGALORE, India , Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonata Software, a global IT Services and Technology Solutions Company, partners with Microsoft in its launch of 'Microsoft Cloud for Retail', further strengthening its offerings to the retail industry. For over three decades, Sonata Software has been a partner with Microsoft, delivering ...

TAIPEI , Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's leading computer brand, GIGABYTE's new generation AERO creator series laptops featuring Intel's latest 12 generation processors and RTX30 series graphics cards have hit shelves. The dual chip approach improved processing performance by 28 % vastly improving the time efficiency for creators. To Elevate Your Vision with GIGABYTE’s AERO Laptop ...

The North Korean party’s official newspaper on Monday called for more intense ideological education for younger generations, warning about “imperialists’ calculation” to overthrow the North Korean regime with cultural and ideological infiltration. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, said “anti-socialist maneuvers of the imperialists have been implemented very subtl...

SK Bioscience saw record sales of 929 billion won ($774 million) and operating profits of 474 billion won from last year, on the back of strong businesses in its contract manufacturing of the AstraZeneca and Novavax COVID-19 vaccines, the company said Monday. Compared to 2020 yearly figures, SK Bioscience’s annual sales and operating profits went up by 311 percent and 1,158 percent, respectively...

SEJONG -- The average yearly wage for foreign workers in South Korea is estimated to have surpassed 30 million won ($25,000) for the first time in 2021, state data showed. The prediction is based on the year-end tax adjustments of foreign employees for their earnings in 2020 and 2019. According to the National Tax Service, about 545,000 foreign employees in the nation carried out year-end tax a...

BEIJING , Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese food and beverage giant Master Kong, also known as Tingyi Holding Corp., has recently won the Hong Kong Corporate Governance and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Excellence Award 2021 for excellent ESG performance. Master Kong supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. After being selected as an outstanding case in a report issued...

L’Oreal Korea said Monday it will launch an at-home device that creates customized lip tint colors, to serve the growing needs of personalization in the beauty market. The newly launched product, Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Sur Mesure, delivers thousands of color schemes using its four-ingredient cartridges -- red, nude, orange and pink. Customers can play with the palette using a mobile applicatio...

It will be difficult to find big-budget Korean films in the coming month or so as many of them have delayed their opening dates. No films with a budget of more than 10 billion won will open before April, as they delayed their release dates. This is partially due to a surge of COVID-19 cases here. The number of moviegoers hit a new low over the Seollal holiday, usually one of the busiest times ...

Kia, South Korea’s second-largest automaker, will launch six electric vehicle models by 2027 in China by renewing its joint venture in the country, where it has been losing presence in recent years over soured bilateral ties between Seoul and Beijing. Starting with the EV6 next year, Kia will bring new battery-powered vehicles each year and realign its strategic models with bigger vehicles that ...

South Korean stocks ended their three-day winning streak on Monday, largely as investors attempted to cash in profits from recent stock rallies. The Korean won fell against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) retreated 5.2 points, or 0.19 percent, to close at 2,745.06 points. Trading volume was moderate at about 410 million shares worth some 11.1 trillion won ...

Korean investors are pulling out money from their investment accounts to reallocate it to safer options such as money market funds as they seek to ride out volatility gripping the local stock market, data showed Sunday. As of Thursday, credit-backed loans for stock investments stood at 21 trillion won ($17.5 billion), down about 4 trillion won from a record high of 25 trillion won in September l...