Seoul, July 2 (IANS) South Korea’s Supreme Court will deliver its verdict next week on charges that former President Yoon Suk Yeol obstructed justice by blocking investigators from detaining him in the wake of his failed martial law bid in 2024, legal sources said Thursday. The sentencing hearing will be held at 2 pm next Thursday, marking the top court’s first ruling for Yoon over charges stemming from his surprise declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024.The jailed former president is ac…
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Seoul, July 2 (IANS) South Korea’s consumer prices rose more than 3 per cent from a year earlier for two straight months in June, reflecting the lingering impact of the Middle East war on supply chains and oil prices, data showed on Thursday.Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, increased 3.2 percent last month from a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics. It marked the sharpest increase since December 2023, when the figure was at the same level.Prices of …
Seoul, July 2 (IANS) The South Korean Army vowed on Thursday to step up safety and medical measures for regular reservist training, following the death of a reservist during a night drill north of Seoul in May.After an extensive probe into the case, the Army said the death of the reservist in his 20s was caused by his pre-existing medical conditions unrelated to the training, but vowed efforts to enhance safety steps for such drills.On May 13, the reservist fell unconscious on his way to a night…
Seoul, July 1 (IANS) South Korea’s defence ministry on Wednesday reviewed the progress of Seoul’s push to complete the verification of full operational capability (FOC) within this year, as it seeks to expedite the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) from Washington. The move comes as South Korea’s Defence Minister Ahn Gyu-back vowed to hold such meetings every quarter this year as part of efforts to complete the transition within South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s five-year term…
Seoul, June 29 (IANS) Unionised workers of Kakao, South Korea’s messenger app operator, took a day off en masse on Monday in a sign of protest amid a continued gridlock in wage negotiations.In their second collective action, unionised members staged what they called a “Log-out Day” by taking simultaneous annual leave, reports Yonhap news agency.Some 2,100 workers from five units of Kakao, including its headquarters, Kakao Pay and Kakao Enterprise, have participated, according to the labor union….
Seoul, June 29 (IANS) South Korea said on Monday that it is maintaining close coordination with the United States on North Korea’s missile launches, after criticism arose over its delayed announcement of the North’s latest launch.The North’s state media said Friday that North Korea conducted tests of a new multiple rocket launcher and other key weapons the previous day, a launch that was overseen by its leader Kim Jong-un.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), however, did not disclose detai…
Seoul, June 28 (IANS) Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are set to announce major investment plans early this week at a meeting presided over by President Lee Jae Myung, the presidential office said on Sunday.The investments will be unveiled during a briefing scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Cheong Wa Dae on the government’s three mega projects aimed at balanced regional development, presidential spokesperson Kang Yoo-jung said.The initiative is jointly pushed by the trade, science, transport and e…
Seoul, June 28 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday vowed to make efforts to resolve the issue of South Korean citizens abducted by North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War through “dialogue and cooperation.” “The government will not allow the issue of abductees to be buried in history,” Lee said in the message read by Vice Unification Minister Kim Nam-jung on his behalf at an event marking the Korean War Abductees Remembrance Day in Paju, north of Seoul.”Through dialogue and c…
Seoul, June 27 (IANS) Nearly 10 Chinese and Russian military aircraft briefly entered and left South Korea’s Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) above the country’s eastern and southern waters, South Korea’s military said Saturday.The Chinese and Russian military aircraft successively entered the KADIZ earlier in the day before retreating from the air defence zone, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).The aircraft, which reportedly included bombers and fighter jets, did not violate S…
Seoul, June 26 (IANS) South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Friday called for shifting away from an approach that sticks to denuclearisation as the sole solution to the North Korean nuclear issue, saying such a precondition has been one of the reasons for stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang. Chung made the remarks in a keynote speech at a forum, co-hosted by Yonhap News Agency, pointing out that the lack of progress in nuclear diplomacy has only helped the North bolster its nuclear…