A tour bus fell on its side after losing control, killing four passengers and injuring about 20 others. The bus carrying about 50 people departed Suwon City and headed southbound on Gyeongbu Express Way to Mount Daedun in South Chungcheong Province. Th…
Parties Lock Horns on Path Forward
Rival parties stand in stark contrast over state affairs following the president’s apologetic news conference on Friday. The opposition declares it will launch a campaign to bring down the administration if the president does not retract her unilateral…
Protesters Demand Park’s Resignation in Rallies Nationwide
Tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday demanded President Park Geun-hye’s resignation in massive rallies nationwide over a snowballing scandal involving her longtime confidant Choi Soon-sil. The public anger appears to be growing even after the pr…
Ruling Party Factions Clash over Leadership’s Resignation
The ruling Saenuri Party held a meeting in parliament on Friday to discuss the fate of its current leadership amid the Choi Soon-sil political scandal, but failed to reach a conclusion. Chairman Lee Jung-hyun has been pressured to step down to take res…
French Team Concludes Chun’s Painting is Fake
French art experts say they have a high degree of certainty a well-known painting by South Korean artist Chun Kyung-ja is a fake.The French team says there’s only a zero-point-0002 percent possibility the work “Beautiful Woman” was actually painted by …
Ahn Blasts Park’s Apology, Calls Her to Step down
Former chairman of the minor opposition People’s Party Ahn Cheol-soo completely rejected President Park’s Friday address, and called for her to step down.He says the president continues to shift responsibility and fails to take the public’s will into a…
Space Cooperation Accord with US Takes Effect
It’s official: South Korea and the United States are now formally cooperating on space research. The Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning say a major agreement signed between the two nations in April is now in effect.I…
Saenuri Party Apologizes to the Public Following Park’s Address
The ruling Saenuri party issued its own apology echoing that of President Park Friday.The party statement pledged to cooperate fully with prosecutors to investigate all allegations until the public is satisfied. It agrees the president is fully respons…
KOSPI, KOSDAQ Close Higher on Thursday
After taking a brutal fall the day before, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) on Thursday managed to rise four-point-86 points, or zero-point-25 percent, to close at one-thousand-983-point-eight.The tech-heavy KOSDAQ advanced three-…