With more transporter vehicles being deployed, salvage workers are set to conduct the final stage of testing on Saturday to move the salvaged wreck of the Sewol ferry onto land, government officials said.Salvage workers have been trying to move the ferry onto land at the port of Mokpo, some 410 kilo

Samsung Electronics Co. predicted Friday that its first-quarter operating profit for this year advanced 48.2 percent on-year, apparently helped by the robust performance of its chip business.Operating profit is estimated at 9.9 trillion won (US$8.76 billion) in the January-March period, compared wit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a mushroom farm, expressing satisfaction that it was built with indigenous technology and materials, Pyongyang's state media said Saturday.Kim inspected the Pyongyang Mushroom Farm, accompanied by party and state officials including premier Pak Pong-ju

Samsung Group's de facto leader on Friday denied bribery allegations during his first court hearing held in relation to a massive corruption scandal that brought down former President Park Geun-hye.Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., appeared at the Seoul Central District Cou

South Korea's permanent representative to the United Nations' Geneva office, Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, was named chair of the World Trade Organization's Goods Council, according to the council on Saturday.Ambassador Choi will serve as chair of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods, w

The row with China over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system hurt the latest bidding process for new duty-free shops due to open at South Korea's largest airport, industry sources said Saturday.On Thursday, four major duty-free operators -- Lotte Duty Free, Hotel Shilla, Shinsegae DF

The Korean daily media headlines and humorFriday April 7, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKore

The U.S. military is capable of intercepting North Korean missiles before they reach U.S. targets, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command and commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday."I am confident in our ability to employ the Ground-based Midcourse Defense eleme

The chief of South Korea's retail giant Lotte will be grilled by prosecutors Friday as they widen the investigation into local conglomerates in relation to a corruption scandal that removed former President Park Geun-hye from office.Shin Dong-bin is set to appear at the Seoul Central District Pr

U.S. President Donald Trump greeted Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, kicking off a series of crucial first meetings where he plans to focus on reducing the trade deficit with the world's No. 2 economy and getting Beijing to exercise genuine pressure on North Korea.Trump and the first la

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will try to persuade China to use its leverage over North Korea when he holds meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping starting later in the day.Trump told Fox News after an event honoring wounded soldiers that North Korea and trade will be the most imp

The Korean daily media headlines and humorThursday April 6, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKo

“You leave Seoul by riding a hyperloop super high-speed train and you hit Busan in a little over a quarter of an hour!” This was what was introduced by Dr. Tai-sik Lee, president of the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering & Technology (KICT), at an Italian-Korean Science Club meeting in Seoul on Ma

The Korean daily media headlines and humorTuesday April 5, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKor

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to use his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to bring an end to "unwarranted and unfair" retaliatory measures Beijing has taken against South Korea for hosting the U.S. THAAD missile defense system.A total

There is a very important attribute of virtue among the ladies in Korea, which is called Naejo (literally, ‘domestic support’). Naejo is among the items of the highest virtue and value in the Korean society accountable throughout the history of the country for helping her husband and/or children mak

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday instructed its ambassador to South Korea to request that Seoul implement a landmark 2015 deal to resolve the long-running rift over Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a Japanese broadcaster reported.Abe met with Ambassador Yasumas

The Korean daily media headlines and humorTuesday April 4, 2017 Your Excellency: Here are The Korea Post notices and a roundup of important headlines from all major Korean-language dailies, TV and other news media of Korea today: Very Respectfully Yours /s/ Lee Kyung-sikPublisher-ChairmanKorea Post

South Korea's consumer prices shot up at the fastest clip in nearly five years in March on a sharp rise in gas prices, government data showed Tuesday.The country's consumer price index gained 2.2 percent last month from a year earlier, accelerating from the previous month's 1.9 percent r

Investments by the country's top 30 conglomerates by assets dropped 18 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, with the top three business groups leading the overall decline, a tally from a corporate tracker showed Tuesday.The 30 business groups, which control 266 affiliates, invested 60.69 trillio