Day: August 30, 2024

U.S. nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Electric Company is facing criticism for challenging the Czech Republic’s decision to select a Korean company as the preferred bidder for a nuclear plant project. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) dismissed …

Police on Friday raided the headquarters of the far-left People’s Democracy Party and homes of its members as part of an investigation into alleged violations of the National Security Act.

Investigators from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sear…

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Techo Startup Centre (TSC), a government organisation created to foster startups and promote digital business, in Cambodia on Aug. 30.

The MOU enables Visa to…

Another South Korean court ordered a Japanese company on Friday to offer compensation to victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor.

The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Mitsubishi Materials Corp. must compensate five South Koreans forced into w…

KUALA TERENGGANU, Malaysians are resorting to various ways to express their love for the country in conjunction with the 67th Independence Day to be celebrated tomorrow.

One such gesture is by a trader who is offering free tapioca or cassava-based d…

A presidential sense still detached from reality

President Yoon Suk Yeol clarified his position on various issues in a briefing and the following Q and A session on Thursday. His face-to-face meeting with the press corps just three months after his …

Confirmed cases of abuse against children in South Korea fell last year, but 44 children died of abuse, a government report showed Friday.

The number of confirmed child abuse cases recorded by authorities reached 25,739 in 2023, down some 8 percent …

The number of South Koreans using an anonymity software capable of providing access to the dark web anonymously has more than doubled this year, data showed Friday, as the nation has vowed to tackle deepfake sex crimes.

The software, known as Tor, h…

A deepfake crime suspect arrested recently on charges of producing hundreds of fabricated videos and distributing them on Telegram was transferred to the prosecution Friday for a possible indictment, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said.

The s…

A presidential committee on medical reform said Friday it has proposed increasing cost coverage rates by the state health insurance system in essential medical fields within three years.

The proposal by the presidential committee also aims to bolste…