Kakao Pay plans to add “Information Services” as a new business objective at its upcoming shareholders’ meeting on the 23rd, signaling a formal pivot toward a stablecoin business and the launch of a next-generation digital wallet called the Super Wallet. The move comes as the government and the ruling party

The ruling People Power Party faced internal tensions over its candidate nomination process ahead of the June 3 local elections after Lee Jung-hyun, the head of the party’s nomination management committee, signaled his intention to resign. The development prompted a cautious response from the party leadership as it seeks

In Ulsan’s northern Buk District, the hillside near Hyangtojeonmaeul village is drawing attention as the Byeonsan windflower, a herald of spring, comes into bloom. Weather officials say the coming weekend will be largely cloudy across the city, with notable temperature swings between morning and afternoon, around 10 degrees Celsius.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that U.S. forces attacked Kharg Island, Iran’s principal crude export terminal in the Persian Gulf, and destroyed all military facilities there. In a post dated the 13th local time, Trump wrote that, at his order, U.S. Central

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service shows that Han Seong-sook, the minister of SMEs and Startups and a former Naver chief executive, was the country’s top-paid executive at Naver last year. Her total compensation reached 10.343 billion won, according to the FSS’s electronic disclosure system. Her pay

South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung reiterated a call for broader regional consolidation, arguing that administrative unification should go beyond the current idea of merging South Chungcheong (Chungnam) with Daejeon to include North Chungcheong (Chungbuk) and the central city itself. He spoke at a town hall gathering in Cheongju, the

South Korea’s acting Budget Minister, Im Ki-geun, chaired a morning meeting at the Government Complex Seoul on the Middle East situation and the government’s plan to prepare a supplementary budget quickly. At the meeting, Im stressed the need to move swiftly to draft a supplementary budget and submit

President Lee Jae-myung publicly praised Democratic Party lawmaker Park Ju-min after the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee approved the National Medical School Establishment Act, posting the news on X (formerly Twitter) and saying the achievement reflects meaningful medical reform progress. Park Ju-min had posted on Facebook that the

A photo from the morning of the 11th shows canola blooms in Eongdeungmul Valley in Saekdal-dong, Seogwipo, Jeju Island. The new weekend weather outlook for South Korea calls for clouds across most regions on Saturday, with chilly mornings and milder afternoons and a notable temperature swing of as much as

South Korea’s presidential office announced that Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will visit Seoul as a state guest from March 31 to April 2, 2024. The trip comes about five months after his last visit to Korea for the APEC summit held in Gyeongju in October of the previous year.