The nuclear envoys shared their assessments about North Korea’s recent satellite launch and weapons … and other illicit efforts to evade U.S.-led international sanctions and finance its weapons …
Central Asia: Report accuses Chinese hackers of attacking Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s servers
Chinese hackers have reportedly conducted attacks on governmental servers in Uzbekistan and against individual users in South Korea. The Hacker News reported in early December that the Uzbek Foreign …
Japan-South Korea Cooperation Rests on the Rule of Law
South Korea’s erratic court rulings and disharmony in the justice system jeopardize Japan and South Korea’s bilateral ties.
Twitch says it’s withdrawing from the South Korean market over expensive network fees
Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South Korea, a decision its chief executive blamed on allegedly “prohibitively expensive” costs for operating in the country.
Exclusive: South Korea’s pension fund, central bank to extend FX swap line
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and central bank are in talks to extend their foreign exchange swap programme that was due to expire in December, according to two government sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
US envoy for North Korea to join Hyundai Motor as an adviser
SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. special representative for North Korea Sung Kim will join South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor as an adviser in January, the company said on Friday. Kim, a Korean-American …
(LEAD) N. Korea illegally running 30 S. Korean-owned facilities at Kaesong complex: Seoul
The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs called on North Korea to “immediately” stop the acts that violate the property rights of South Korean owners. “Despite our repeated urging and warnings, …
Amazon’s game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs
Amazon’s game-streaming business Twitch has announced it will quit South Korea, citing network access costs ten times higher than those it pays in any other nation.… Twitch lets gamers stream their play in realtime, with some streamers winning …
U.S., South Korea celebrate 70-year alliance to preserve peace in the Pacific
This year, special events in Hawaii and South Korea marked the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty — a U.S. promise to defend South Korea against external aggression, …
South Korea pushes ‘carbon-free’ plan, but its shift to renewables has slowed
SEOUL — South Korea is rolling out a new “carbon-free” campaign at this year’s COP28 that it says will reposition Seoul as a global leader in decarbonization. But climate experts and advocates say the plan, which promotes some fossil fuel power generation, merely masks South Korea’s dependence on nonrenewable energy sources.