Military service cannot limit the deadline for citizenship choice: Constitutional Court
(Yonhap)Barring those with multiple citizenships from giving up their Korean nationality before completing mandatory military service is incompatible with the Constitution, South Korea’s constitutional...
Overdue wages rise 20% in 4 years: data
Employers owed more than 7 trillion won ($6.05 billion) in overdue wages to 1.53 million workers over the past 4 1/2 years, data showed...
13 charged in plot to kidnap US governor, start ‘civil war’
WASHINGTON - Thirteen men, including members of a right-wing militia, have been arrested for plotting to kidnap the Democratic governor of the US state...
S. Korea’s Yoo advances to final round in WTO leadership race
South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee (AFP-Yonhap)South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee has advanced to the final round of two candidates in the race...
Mighty little global star: Netflix’s Indian superhero toddler
MUMBAI - It was a quest worthy of a superhero. Animator Rajiv Chilaka spent years flogging his pitch about a superhuman Indian child to...
Daily COVID-19 case count falls again
(Yonhap)South Korea’s daily COVID-19 case count fell to a double-digit figure Thursday after reporting a three-digit gain a day earlier, though health authorities remain...
Athletics boss Coe backs right to ‘take knee’ at Olympics
TOKYO - World Athletics president Sebastien Coe said competitors should be able to "take the knee" on the podium at the postponed Tokyo Olympics,...
Defense chief says military exemption for BTS members not under consideration
BTS (Big Hit Entertainment)The defense ministry is not considering granting South Korean K-pop boy band BTS an exemption of mandatory military service, but a...
Nobel winning women hope to inspire a new generation of scientists
PARIS - On hearing that they had been awarded a Nobel Chemistry Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene-editing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier...
Ruling party head, Gyeonggi governor tied in poll of liberal presidential...
(Yonhap)Ruling Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Nak-yon and Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung were tied in the lead in a poll of potential presidential...
