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[FOCUS] S. Korean steel industry under pressure to reduce discharge of air pollutants

[Courtesy of Posco] SEOUL -- South Korea's steel industry is on guard against criticism that it has played a ro…

2019-06-05 15:32:14

S. Korean quarantine authorities on alert to preclude pig virus from crossing inter-Korean border

[Gettyimages Bank] SEOUL -- South Korean quarantine authorities tightened vigilance against wild boars living along…

2019-05-31 11:31:30

S. Korean government sends emergency team to support rescue operation in Budapest

[AP / Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- On a presidential order, the South Korean government agreed to dispatch an emergency r…

2019-05-30 10:15:01

[PHOTO NEWS] Band of female professors show off retro pop dance cover at university festival

[Courtesy of Gumi University] SEOUL -- A band of female professors dressed up in retro outfits has swept the dance …

2019-05-17 12:39:58

Man kidnapped in Libya released and waits for homecoming in UAE

[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- A 62-year-old South Korean man kidnapped by an armed group in Libya in July last year stays…

2019-05-17 10:36:52

Prosecutors demand jail terms for wife of Hanjin's late chairman and daughter

Lee Myung-hee, the wife of Hanjin Group's late chairman Cho Yang-ho, walks into the court in the western port city o…

2019-05-16 17:38:21

BCG vaccine importer fined for controlling imports to gain profits

[Gettyimages Bank] SEOUL -- Korea Vaccine, the exclusive supplier of tuberculosis vaccines in South Korea, was fi…

2019-05-16 14:55:00

Trump to visit S. Korea in June for summit with Moon: Yonhap

[AP/Yonhap] WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump will visit South Korea next month for a summit with President…

2019-05-16 08:09:21

YouTube gains popularity from middle-aged S. Koreans more than other age groups

[Courtesy of YouTube] SEOUL -- The popularity of YouTube, Google's social video platform, has increased in So…

2019-05-14 16:44:14

Four teenagers get heavy sentences for fatal bullying on roof of apartment building

[Yonhap Photo] Four teenage students were sentenced to a maximum of seven years in juvenile prison for spitting, be…

2019-05-14 15:17:48

S. Korea and Saudi Arabia to push for development of new small reactors

[Courtesy of KAERI] SEOUL -- South Korea and Saudi Arabia will establish a joint research center and push for the…

2019-05-14 10:52:39

​Suicidal woman miraculously survives after jumping off moving bullet train

Firefighters rescue a 32-year-old woman who threw herself out of a moving bullet train on May 9. [Yonhap Photo] SEO…

2019-05-10 17:49:24

​President Moon shares thoughts on peace on Korean peninsula in contribution to German newspaper

[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- President Moon Jae-in shared his thoughts about an initiative to bring peace to the Korea…

2019-05-07 16:45:24

'Nut rage' woman pleads guilty of illegally hiring Filipino housemaids

Journalists surround Cho Hyun-ah, a former Korean Air vice president, for comment, in the yard of a district court in Se…

2019-05-02 13:19:30

Four given jail terms for conspiring to bilk money in Russian warship scam

[Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- Four people were jailed for up to five years for conspiring to deceive thousands of in…

2019-05-02 09:15:51

​Supreme Court finds Man guilty of obscene act for standing naked on hotel balcony

[Pixabay] SEOUL -- A 36-year-old man, who stood naked on the balcony of a hotel in a broad daylight facing towards…

2019-04-30 16:24:30

4.3-magnitude quake rattles S. Korea's east coast, causes no casualties

Primary school students run out of their classrooms on April 19 in the eastern city of Chuncheon after a 4.3-magnitude q…

2019-04-19 15:39:37

Eleven apartment residents killed or injured by knife-wielding neighbor

[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- A 42-year-old man went berserk, setting his house afire and wielding two knives blindly at …

2019-04-17 15:44:59

Jeju revokes license for S. Korea's first for-profit hospital built with Chinese money

[Yonhap Photo] SEOUL -- South Korea's first for-profit hospital built by a Chinese investor on the southern r…

2019-04-17 13:50:24

U.S. reluctant to extend sanctions waiver on Iranian oil for S. Korea

[Reuters/Yonhap News Photo] SEOUL -- South Korea is locked in tough negotiations to extend a sanctions waiver on …

2019-04-12 16:12:02