The number of vehicles voluntarily recalled by automakers in South Korea reached an all-time high this year, with nearly 80 percent attributed to domestic giant Hyundai Motor Group, traffic authorities said on Sunday.
In an unexpected turn of political developments in South Korea, President Yoon Suk-yeol invoked emergency martial law on 3 December, the first time since 1979.
North Korea on Saturday lambasted a recent trilateral meeting between South Korea, the US and Japan that discussed peace in the Indo-Pacific region, deriding the talks as an "insult" to peace.
South Korea will seek to secure technologies for 100 advanced materials for the chip, biology, and other industries within the next five years, the science ministry said on Thursday, a move aimed at strengthening its own supply chains.
South Korea and Japan will hold high-level economic talks this week to boost cooperation and prepare for the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties, country's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
The mock summit, in the run-up to the global event, was organised at the same venue and saw the participation of students from Jammu & Kashmir and across the country, replicating foreign delegates.
South Korea and the Indo-Pacific partners of the NATO discussed expanding cooperation to counter North Korea's escalating provocations, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
The least problematic way to resolve the dilemma posed by the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling in 2018 in favour of Korean citizens rounded up to work for Japanese firms during the occupation, he suggests, would be for the governments and industries of both countries to create a fund to provide third-party compensation for the victims of forced labour on behalf of the defendant Japanese companies.
The exercise focused on practicing procedures to detect and track a computer-simulated ballistic missile target, and share related information, as per Yonhap News Agency.
South Korea plans to conduct a radiation test on 89 North Korean defectors who hailed from areas near the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site, amid concerns about their possible exposure to radioactive leaks, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Thursday.
