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November 14, 2024 08:58pm
Opposition leader's wife fined for election law violations
A regional court on Thursday fined the wife of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung 1.5 million won ($1,070) for providing free meals during her husband&...
November 14, 2024 08:57pm
S. Korean consul general in New York offers to resign amid speculation over his ties to first lady
South Korea's consul general in New York has offered to step down amid growing criticism from the opposition party in Seoul over his personal tie...
November 14, 2024 08:35pm
Delivery platform commissions to be lowered next year following talks
Delivery platforms and their partnered restaurants reached an agreement Thursday on reducing controversial commission fees to 2 to 7.8 percent from th...
November 14, 2024 06:45pm
Bill passed to compensate for damage from North Korean trash balloons
South Koreans who suffered damage from trash-filled balloons launched by North Korea will now be eligible for compensation. The National Assembly on T...
November 14, 2024 06:37pm
Undercover probes of digital sex crimes permitted
South Korea's National Assembly on Thursday passed a revision to permit undercover investigations of digital sex crimes targeting adults, in a move to...
November 14, 2024 06:28pm
Bill to probe first lady passes again
A bill to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Yoon Suk Yeol’s wife Kim Keon Hee passed the National Assembly on Thursday. All 191 lawma...
November 14, 2024 06:25pm
[Security Forum] What US election watchers in Seoul missed about Trump
Cho Byung-jae, former chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy for training diplomats, says many watchers of the US presidential election i...
November 14, 2024 04:19pm
[Security Forum] 'Korea-US alliance is never a tradable asset'
United States President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House next year signals the possibility that parts of the South Korea-US allianc...
November 14, 2024 03:38pm
Yoon leaves for APEC summit; set for trilateral talks Friday
President Yoon Suk Yeol left South Korea on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, or APEC summit, in Lima, Peru, later this ...
November 14, 2024 11:28am
Top court finalizes suspended prison term for ex-lawmaker in embezzlement case
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's suspended prison sentence for former lawmaker Youn Mee-hyang convicted of embezzling funds d...
November 14, 2024 10:57am
Yoon set to depart for Peru to attend APEC summit
President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to depart for Peru on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, with an eye on a possible meetin...
November 14, 2024 09:48am
Yoon to hold trilateral summit with Biden, Ishiba on sidelines of APEC in Peru
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a trilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the marg...
November 13, 2024 03:39pm
[KH Explains] Why Yoon golfing is so controversial
When reports surfaced that President Yoon Suk Yeol had played golf at a course in northeastern Seoul on Saturday, opposition politicians saw it as an ...
November 13, 2024 01:45pm
[Herald Interview] 'Korea, don't repeat Hong Kong's mistakes on foreign caregivers'
Fifty-one years ago, during Hong Kong's "golden era" of social reform, then-Gov. Murray MacLehose established a framework to bring in low-wage fo...