Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)

A total of 19 domestic banks posted net earnings of 1.49 trillion won during the first quarter of this year. According to a report released by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) yesterday operational profits of domestic banks amounted...

A debate has flared up over to the extent to which former heads of state should be able to make public the state secrets to which they were privy while in office. The issue was raised when former president Roh Tae-woo, in an interview with the Monthly...

Amid the ongoing attacks and counter-attacks over a theft scandal involving several ranking government officials, the opposition Grand National Party yesterday called for a special National Assembly investigation of the case. ``As law enforcement...

A government-to-government meeting designed to facilitate the Korea- Russia cooperation in the field of energy and other natural resources will open in Moscow today for a three-day run. Chong Chang-sop, director general in charge of the mineral...

The ruling and opposition parties yesterday gave mixed responses to President Kim Dae-jung's remarks Sunday calling for the need for the ruling camp to field joint candidates in the Assembly elections slated for April next year. The ruling National...

``According to the research of our historians, `A Q' had children. Furthermore, his line of descendants are thriving even now without discontinuation,'' says the narrator in closing the two-hour-long play ``The Story of A Q.'' Chinese dramaturgist...

Energy efficiency awareness is driving the public enterprises to outsource the private companies specializing in energy-saving designing and engineering. For many years, they have been slow to take action due to lack of funds, though they used...

The opposition Grand National Party continued its offensive against the government yesterday over a theft scandal involving government officials at National Assembly standing committee sessions. The GNP attack focused on suspicions that the police...

The government is considering subjecting Korean Air to harsh punitive measures in the wake of a string of aircraft accidents involving the nation's oldest flag-carrier, a ranking official of the Ministry of Construction and Transportation said yesterday....

SK Telecom's rocketing stock, which briefly flirted with the 1 million won mark last week, was traded at 1.14 million won per share during the morning session on the Seoul stock market, yesterday. The soaring share price of the nation's largest...

Motorola Korea's top manager reaffirmed its continued commitment to Korea upon being cited by the government last week as an exemplary foreign-invested business. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy Friday recognized Motorola and three...