The Korea Herald

LATEST NEWS

Posco’s Q3 operating profit hits record high

Steelmaker says reviewing cash dividend raise, overseas M&A

Oct 23, 2018
Industry
2 men apparently electrocuted to death at public bathhouse

Two elderly men died Tuesday after apparently getting electric shocked at a public bathhouse in the town of Uiryeong, southeastern South Korea. A 73-year-old man and a 68-year-old man were found lyi...

Oct 23, 2018
Social affairs
President Moon appoints 3 new Constitutional Court justices

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday appointed three new justices of the Constitutional Court, ending what he earlier called an unprecedented vacuum created by the parliament's failure to endorse their a...

Oct 23, 2018
Politics
China continues to block Naver blogs, cafes in internet censorship boost

China-based access to South Korean internet giant Naver’s online blogs and cafes has been cut off for a week now, raising speculation that China’s censorship of foreign websites has effectively exten...

Oct 23, 2018
Technology
Diageo launches brand campaign for low-alcohol W Signature

South Korean branch of British spirits maker Diageo Korea said Tuesday that it has launched a brand campaign for its low-alcohol W Signature spirit drink to encourage consumers to better understand i...

Oct 23, 2018
Industry
NCT 127 lands on Billboard 200 chart as second-highest-charting K-pop boy band

K-pop boy band NCT 127 landed their latest full-length album on the Billboard chart of the 200 most popular albums, becoming the second-highest-charting Korean male band, the Billboard said Tuesday. ...

Oct 23, 2018
Music
Online troll who sexually harassed Seolhyun found guilty

A man who sent sexually humiliating messages and videos online to singer Seolhyun has been found guilty. In a statement Tuesday, the singer’s agency, FNC Entertainment, said the online troll who’d s...

Oct 23, 2018
Music
China opens mega bridge linking Hong Kong to mainland

China opened the world's longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland on Tuesday in a feat of engineering carrying immense economic and political significance. Chinese President Xi ...

Oct 23, 2018
World News
College student spreads self-nude pictures taken at kindergartens

A university student in his 20s was arrested Monday for spreading nude pictures of himself and sex videos, police said. The suspect is accused for taking some 100 nude pictures and videos of himself...

Oct 23, 2018
Social affairs
Trump to cut Central America aid as migrant caravan rolls on

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to three Central American countries as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on toward the US border. ...

Oct 23, 2018
World News
S. Korea to extend period for NK defectors to apply for settlement

South Korea will extend the period in which North Korean defectors can apply for settlement here from the current one year to three years as part of efforts to provide them with more support, the uni...

Oct 23, 2018
North Korea
Lotte Group announces W50tr investment plan for next five years

Lotte Group announced plans Tuesday to invest 50 trillion won ($44 billion) over the next five years, a move intended to quickly normalize the group’s business after its Chairman Shin Dong-bin return...

Oct 23, 2018
Industry
S. Korea files complaint over use of N. Korean anthem at youth football tournament

South Korea's football governing body said Tuesday it has filed a complaint against the Asian Football Confederation for playing the North Korean national anthem ahead of its national youth football ...

Oct 23, 2018
Soccer
Unification minister to meet NK defectors amid controversy

Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon will meet North Korean defectors this week apparently to assuage their concerns caused by his controversial decision to exclude a defector-turned-journalist from ...

Oct 23, 2018
North Korea
Parking lot stabbing victim’s ex-husband arrested

A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of his ex-wife, whose body was discovered in the parking lot of an apartment building in Deungchon-dong, southwestern Seoul, po...

Oct 23, 2018
Social affairs

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation

Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Kwon Chung-won
Juvenile Protection Manager : Shin Chang Hoon
Tel : 02.727.0114