In Tokyo, South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol and Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama presided over the 10th Korea-Japan Finance Ministers’ Meeting at the Japanese Ministry of Finance. The talks, the first since President Lee Jae-myung took office, focused on global and regional economic

President Lee Jae-myung used a social-media post on March 14 to draw attention to a policy from Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) that rewards whistleblowers for reporting stock manipulation. The post accompanied a short-form video the FSC produced, intended to explain how to report market crimes and how rewards

KFC Korea is adjusting prices across a range of menu items, applying changes at the store level. The company said the move reflects a combination of a high won-dollar exchange rate, rising raw material costs, and broader cost increases, and that the price changes apply to single-item prices. Overall, chicken

A man in his 40s, who was wearing a location-tracking electronic ankle monitor, stabbed a woman in her 20s on a street in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, then fled and was arrested about an hour later. The attack occurred on the morning of the 14th, around 9:00 a.m., on

A 2025 nationwide survey on private after-school tuition for elementary through high school students shows that Chungbuk Province in central Korea has the lowest per-student monthly private tutoring cost among the four Chungcheong region jurisdictions, and ranks fifth-lowest across the country. The average for Chungbuk was 339,000 won per

Seoul police are tightening security for BTS’s comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Plaza on the 21st, as authorities cite a deteriorating international climate and the threat of terrorism as reasons to bolster protections for the high-profile event. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency says it cannot rule out the possibility of

Anthropic, a U.S. AI startup known for its Claude large language model, is facing a potential removal from federal procurement after being designated a supply-chain security risk by the Trump administration. The company has responded by filing lawsuits against the U.S. government, asking a California federal court and

Lee Jung-hyun, the chair of the People Power Party’s (PPP) nomination management committee, suddenly resigned on the 13th as the party faces renewed internal turmoil ahead of local elections. The resignation is linked to ongoing friction over Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s refusal to apply for local election nominations.

A South Korean startup, Nexters, is pushing the esports envelope with an AI-agent based platform called MoltyRoyale. In this system, multiple AI agents compete against one another, and human players do not directly control any character. Instead, audiences watch as AI-driven strategies unfold and clash. On MoltyRoyale, the decision-making and

As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Beirut and called for an immediate ceasefire and expanded humanitarian aid to Lebanon. He spoke amid daily Israeli airstrikes and warnings for further operations near Lebanese towns. At a Beirut press conference, Guterres framed the visit as