Seven people linked to South Korea and Iran traveled from Tehran to Turkmenistan this week under government coordination, according to Seoul. The disembarkation follows a convoy that began on March 11, when a government-provided rental bus departed Tehran carrying five Korean nationals and two Iranian nationals. By the afternoon of

A radiologist in South Korea has singled out several everyday foods as potential threats to pancreatic health, including kimbap, tteok, fruit juice, and mix coffee. He says refined carbohydrates and added sugars can cause rapid blood sugar spikes that place long-term stress on the pancreas, potentially raising the risk of

EcoPrimeMarinePacific and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of agreement on the 13th to pursue the asset transfer of the Gunsan shipyard, with a final contract to follow after due diligence. The move signals a potential rapid revival of a key regional asset that has long been sought by

Progressive members of New York City Council have introduced a bill to raise the city’s minimum wage to $30 per hour, with different timelines for large employers and smaller firms. The proposal would lift the current minimum of $17 per hour, targeting $30 by 2030 for companies with 500

South Korea’s National Assembly held the full meeting of the Special Committee on Political Reform for the first time in two months on the 13th, but did not reach conclusions on key issues such as how to redraw electoral districts for the June 3 local elections or other reform

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