Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong faced the first session of his appeals trial on Thursday over the massive bribery case that triggered the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye early this year.Dressed in a dark suit and looking slimmer, the heir to South Korea's richest conglome

The Korean daily media headlines and humorThursday, October 12, 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

By Lee Kyung-sik, publisher of The Korea Post mediaIn the opinion of many Koreans, former Ambassador Krzysztof Ignacy Majka of Poland in Seoul and Mrs. Zofia Majka are considered to be among the most dedicated foreign mission chiefs and madams in Korea.Most fittingly, Ambassador Majka was recently h

Ha Seong-yong, former CEO of the Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI), was indicted Wednesday on charges that include accounting fraud, embezzlement and bribery in a major scandal surrounding the nation's sole aircraft maker.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office also charged nine ot

South Korea imposes emission standards on eight private coal power plants under construction that are stronger than those in Germany and Japan, a report said Wednesday.The government has set the permissible sulfur oxide emission level at 15 ppm, which compares with 39 ppm for Japan and 70 ppm for Ge

The South Korean government vowed Wednesday to work with Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. to defend washers made by the two companies in the U.S. market, where they could be subject to tough safeguard measures.The trade and foreign ministries held a meeting with the tech giants to dis

The Korean daily media headlines and humorWednesday, October 11, 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

The South Korean government vowed Tuesday to support local companies' bids to export nuclear reactors overseas, in a move to ease concerns that its nuclear phase-out plan could adversely affect efforts to new secure contracts.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a meeting with state-r

South Korea didn't raise issue with China's trade barriers against South Korean companies during a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting earlier this month, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a decision that may reflect a rise in tension with North Korea and talks to extend th

Two B-1B strategic bombers of the U.S. Air Force trained with South Korea's fighter jets over and near the peninsula earlier this week in yet another show of force against North Korea, defense authorities here said Wednesday.The bombers from Guam entered the Korean Air Defense Identification Zon

U.S. President Donald Trump met with top defense officials Tuesday to discuss a "range of options" to handle North Korea's nuclear threat, the White House said.Trump received a briefing from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford, according to a statem

U.S. President Donald Trump may travel to the inter-Korean border in early November when he visits South Korea, a defense source said Tuesday.The White House dispatched an advance team of working-level officials in late September to check candidate sites for Trump's "special activity" here, ac

An association of South Korean residents in Hanoi said Saturday it will hold a Korean food festival in the Vietnamese capital on Oct. 27-29 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the two countries' diplomatic ties. The association said it will join forces with the South Korean Embassy in Viet

The Korean daily media headlines and humorMonday, October 9, 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-ChairmanK

Choe Ryong-hae, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling party and known to be one of the closest aides to leader Kim Jong-un, has been picked as a member of the party's powerful military commission, the North's state-run media reported Sunday.Choe, 67, was elected to the Central Military C

South Korean and U.S. forces have stepped up reconnaissance operations amid growing speculation of North Korea's possible test of a long-range missile in the near future, a Seoul military source said Sunday.A Russian lawmaker who recently visited Pyongyang told media Friday that North Korea is p

The number of local subsidiaries established abroad by South Korea's 30 biggest business groups rose gradually in recent years, a report said Sunday, as they actively made inroads into overseas markets to survive the keen competition. The figure surged to 3,332 last year from 2,650 in 20

South Korean stocks rose more than 17 percent for the first nine months of this year, the fifth highest increase rate among the world's major 20 advanced and emerging economies, the Korea Stock Exchange (KSE) said Sunday.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) surged 17.1 percent

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that "only one thing" will work to solve the North Korean nuclear impasse, apparently referring to military action.Trump did not state what the "one thing" was, but he voiced strong objection to negotiations with the communist regime."Presidents and the

Nearly 70,000 cases of exotic diseases and insect pests were detected at airports and sea ports across South Korea over the last seven years, government data showed Saturday, pointing to a possible loophole in the nation's quarantine system for imports.The number of interceptions of non-indigeno