SEOUL: The de facto chief of South Korea's Samsung business empire was convicted Monday over a huge corruption scandal and jailed for two and a half years, in a ruling that deprives the tech giant of its top decision-maker.

Cresce a doppia cifra il Made in Italy in Corea del Sud. Nonostante il Covid sono ottime le performances rispetto ai primi 9 mesi del 2019 di alcuni tra i nostri prodotti di eccellenza. In particolare gioielli, farmaceutica e pelletteria Voce: Lorenzo Angeloni, Direttore Generale della Direzione...

SEOUL - The world's second-largest chipmaker, South Korea's SK Hynix, on Tuesday announced a $9 billion deal to buy Intel's flash memory chip operation as it seeks to bolster its position against rival behemoth Samsung Electronics.

L’Ambasciata d’Italia a Seoul e l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Seoul, in collaborazione con Uni-Italia, centro di promozione accademica per l’orientamento allo studio in Italia, hanno organizzato per oggi la Giornata virtuale sulla formazione superiore italiana, con l’obiettivo di attrarre...

A sweeping national security law passed by China in June has unsettled news organizations and created uncertainty about the city’s prospects as a hub for journalism in Asia.

SEOUL: A South Korean court on Tuesday declined to issue an arrest warrant for the heir to South Korea's Samsung empire over a controversial merger of two business units seen as a key step to his succession, Yonhap news agency reported.

Art galleries remain shuttered around the world but in South Korea, they reopen — with contact tracing and masks. Welcome to the post-Covid-19 world.

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IN THE SUMMER of 2019, South Koreans were shocked by the news that a North Korean woman, who had fled her country through China a decade before, had died with her young son in her flat in Seoul. Weeks passed before a building manager found the bodies. Authorities concluded she ...

WHEN PARK HYE-SOO was a young girl, her path to success seemed clearly defined. “My parents said, study hard, get into a good university and everything will be fine, so I was a good daughter and did that,” she says. “But when I finished I didn’t know what to do ...

Japan has filed a petition against South Korea with the World Trade Organization accusing Seoul of providing excessive aid to the domestic shipbuilding industry, informed ...

SEOUL: South Korea's economy expanded at its slowest pace for a decade last year, hampered by prolonged trade tensions between the United States and China and the sluggish semiconductor market, the central bank said Wednesday.

Shin Kyuk-ho, a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into the Lotte Group, South Korea’s biggest retailer, has ...

Tensions between South Korea and Japan are complicating free-trade talks with Beijing

The denial marks the latest tit-for-tat between Tokyo and Seoul following years of bickering and finger-pointing amid sour bilateral relations.

Japan floated a specific time frame to withdraw its tightened export controls against South Korea, an offer that apparently spurred Seoul’s decision to remain in ...