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Chinese warplane violates Korea's air defense zone again

A Chinese military plane violated South Korea's air defense identification zone again Friday, prompting the Air Force to deploy its fighters to drive it out, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The ...

November 29, 2019
Defense
Box-office hit 'Frozen 2' reignites debate over anti-monopoly regulations

As Walt Disney's ambitious film "Frozen 2" smashes the South Korean box office, the local cinema market is again engulfed in a long-running debate over anti-monopoly regulations. "Frozen 2," the seq...

November 29, 2019
Film
Main opposition to stage filibuster to prevent vote on key reform bills

The main opposition Liberty Korea Party said Friday it will launch a filibuster to prevent a parliamentary vote on contentious reform bills, effectively putting to a halt the ongoing regular session....

November 29, 2019
Politics
Block B member faces lawsuits after raising music chart fixing accusations

Park Kyung, a music producer and a member of K-pop boy band Block B, is facing a chain of lawsuits from fellow music artists after accusing them of music chart manipulation. This past Sunday, the 27...

November 29, 2019
Social affairs
NK's latest weapons test intended to warn it can return to past behavior: Seoul

North Korea appears to have tested a super-large multiple rocket launcher as a warning sign that it can return to its past behavior of resorting to provocations if it fails to get what it wants durin...

November 29, 2019
North Korea
Top nuclear envoys of S. Korea, US, Japan hold phone talks on NK firing

South Korea's chief nuclear envoy has held telephone talks with his counterparts of the United States and Japan and discussed North Korea's latest firing of projectiles, Seoul's foreign ministry said...

November 29, 2019
North Korea
No info shared between Seoul, Tokyo via GSOMIA over N. Korea's missile test: officials

South Korea and Japan did not exchange military information with each other regarding North Korea's weapons test this week under the framework of their bilateral intelligence-sharing pact, officials ...

November 29, 2019
Defense
Opposition leader declares end to hunger strike

South Korea's opposition leader has decided to terminate his hunger strike of more than a week but vowed to toughen his struggle against the Moon Jae-in administration over contentious reform bills, ...

November 29, 2019
Politics
BOK keeps base rate steady, sees slower economic growth

The Bank of Korea Friday kept its policy rate frozen for the remainder of the year to see the impact of recent rate cuts on Asia's fourth-largest economy. But the central bank again trimmed its grow...

November 29, 2019
Economy
Imports of Japanese beer in freefall on boycott

South Korean imports of Japanese beer tumbled more than 99 percent on-year in the past two months due to a boycott of Japanese products amid a bilateral trade row, data showed Friday. South Korea br...

November 29, 2019
Industry
Industrial output down for 2nd consecutive month in October

South Korea's overall industrial output declined for the second straight month last month due mainly to a decrease in the production of auto and display panels, government data showed Friday. The da...

November 29, 2019
Industry
S. Korean shares open lower on US-China trade woes

South Korean stocks opened slightly lower Friday on fears of a delay in a US-China trade deal. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index lost 2.82 points, or 0.13 percent, to 2,115.78 in the f...

November 29, 2019
Finance
Seoul, Tokyo to hold high-level talks over bilateral trade row in Dec.

South Korea and Japan will hold high-level talks with Japan in December, the first step toward resolving their bilateral trade row, Seoul's trade ministry said Friday. On Thursday, working-level tra...

November 29, 2019
Industry
N. Korea says it tested super-large multiple rocket launcher under leader's guidance

North Korea said Friday it successfully tested a super-large multiple rocket launcher's successive firing system under leader Kim Jong-un's guidance in the launch of two projectiles the previous day....

November 29, 2019
North Korea
NSC discusses strategy on defense cost talks with US

South Korea's National Security Council on Thursday discussed how to cope with pressure from the United States to sharply raise Seoul's financial burden for the presence of American troops here. In ...

November 28, 2019
Foreign Affairs

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