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Jobplanet, an online recruitment platform operated by Worxphere, exchanged views with LinkedIn executives on Korea’s hiring market and the role of artificial intelligence in recruitment, the company announced Wednesday. At its Seoul headquarters on Oct. 19, where LinkedIn Ecosystem Chief Product Officer Hari Sriniva…
Kim Yo Jong refuses dialogue with US after denying responsibility for theft of more than $6bn in crypto assets.
Shinhan Bank has received a government commendation for its efforts to attract foreign investment to South Korea, supported by dedicated consulting services and digital banking solutions for foreign companies. The bank said Wednesday it received a ministerial commendation at the 2026 Foreign Company Day ceremony, ho…
SK Telecom's third-quarter operating profit surged more than 11-fold from a year earlier, exceeding prehack levels, as South Korea's largest mobile carrier has seemingly recovered from the financial fallout of its massive 2025 data breach. The company said Wednesday that operating profit jumped 1,040.3 percent on-ye…
It marks the first time Hiroshima returned the remains of an atomic bomb victim whose name had been found to be recorded incorrectly in its registry.
South Korea has selected Sunchon National University and Gyeongkuk National University to open two new medical schools from 2030, the government said Wednesday. The Education Ministry and the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Sunchon National University in Jeonnam-Gwangju, will have an annual enrollment quota of 6…
Sale by state-backed fund JIC to become biggest deal in country's chemical sector
Reports of party's performance weigh on tech investment outlook
Chinese investors refrained from bets on stocks this week, even after Beijing unveiled a litany of measures to shore up confidence in the world’s second-largest equity market. Leveraged traders trimmed their holdings to a one-year low this week, while new stock-account openings dropped by more than 30 per cent in Oc…
The Real Madrid star has been effectively cancelled in China over his remarks about Mao Zedong. But Mbappé-promoted sports drinks were still being sold this week by Chinese vendors oblivious to the scandal.
China Southern Airlines will suspend its direct flights between Darwin and Guangzhou, China after just one year operating in the NT. The airline's final scheduled flight to China will be on December 3.
Kim Yo-jong, a ranking Workers' Party of Korea official and the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Wednesday again rejected US allegations that Pyongyang was behind a cryptocurrency theft from Binance, warning that North Korea sees no reason to resume dialogue with Washington unless it abandons its hostil…
LONDON—In March, China’s 15th Five-Year Plan named two population problems: “population aging and the decline in births.”¹ Both problems are already reshaping the Chinese household. By 2036, 29% of households will have a child at home and 18% will be headed by someone over 65. Twenty years earlier, nearly half had a…
Papua New Guinea police had earlier dismissed speculation that the 32kg object was "merely a dummy".
Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here For years, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had little influence over the machinery of the Democratic Party. That is beginning to change. The organisation has more than doubled its membership since 2024, reaching roughly 120,000, while growing numbers of DSA-backed cand…
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired multiple missiles toward the East Se...
Reports of party's performance weigh on tech investment outlook
Thyssenkrupp CEO Miguel Lopez acknowledged the fierce competition between its naval shipbuilding arm TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean in Canada’s recent submarine procurement contest, while expressing optimism about broader industrial cooperation between Germany and Korea. “Canada has been very, very close compet…
South Korean researchers have identified a protein that helps a substance linked to Alzheimer’s disease spread between brain cells, a finding that could open a path for research into potential treatments. The National Institute of Health said Wednesday that its researchers had established the role of a protein calle…
North Korea is said to be behind the theft from the crypto exchange Binance. How did they pull it off and what will they do with the money? Kalyeena Makortoff and Jean H Lee reportIt was 8pm last Thursday when the panic alarms went off across the crypto world. Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, had been h…
The region's historically non-aligned approach has often proved valuable far beyond its own borders
A growing rift is emerging in South Korea's booming botulinum toxin industry over whether to lift government protections on its manufacturing technology, pitting companies seeking faster overseas expansion against those warning that deregulation could expose valuable industrial know-how. The dispute comes as Korean …
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the Nampho...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the Nampho Shipyard and called for a rapid buildup of naval combat power to counter "hostile acts of the enemies," state media said Wednesday. Kim made the remarks during an on-site inspection at the shipyard Monday, where he was briefed on the shipyard's ongoing upgrades …
By Lee Mi-seon, administrator of the Korea Meteorological Administration Could an earthquake in Japan cause high-rise buildings in South Korea, hundreds of kilometers away, to sway? When an earthquake occurs, we first check its epicenter and magnitude. However, in modern society, where high-rise buildings are common…
A woman from central China has moved many online after inviting her ex-mother-in-law to live with her following the deaths of her ex-husband and ex-father-in-law. Lin, from Henan province, recently flew more than 1,000km to Guangdong province in southern China to bring her ex-mother-in-law to live with her, despite …
The Tibetan Plateau, home to the world’s largest expanse of alpine permafrost, is warming at about twice the global average but, counter-intuitively,researchers have found that ice in parts of the Tibet autonomous region is actually thickening. A team from Peking University found that shallow ground ice has unexpect…
North Korea said Wednesday that dialogue with the United States remains an option for peace, but that it would not be necessary for its own interest while again stressing the US' accusation of its involvement in a major cryptocurrency theft as a sign of Washington's hostility toward Pyongyang. Kim Yo-jong, the power…
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- SK Telecom Co. (SKT), South Korea's top mobile service...
Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here The United States’ midterm elections are unlikely to deliver a “disruptive” shock to relations between Beijing and Washington despite potential volatility over the issue of Taiwan, according to a prominent mainland Chinese expert in US studies. Chen Dongxiao, president of the Sha…
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the Nampho...
Nationality: Korea Materials: Paper Dimensions: First panel: 541.0 × 145.5 cm, second panel: 543.0 × 137.0 cm, third panel: 541.0 × 180.0 cm, fourth panel: 543.0 × 126.0 cm This is a rubbed copy of the epitaph on the monument to King Gwanggaeto, which his son King Jangsu erected in 414 (the 3rd year of his reign) to…
Senior officials of South Korea and Switzerland have discussed bilateral cooperation and the situation on the Korean Peninsula following the Swiss foreign minister's recent visit to North Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Chung Eui-hae held the seventh roun…
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Tuesday that hackers used fake job interviews and an internal artificial intelligence tool in a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of more than $6 billion in digital assets last week. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's has attributed the theft to N…
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the East Sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military said. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch, without elaborating. The latest launch came after the North fired around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea from the Wons…
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward th...
South Korea's Hanwha Group has appointed a new president of its Philadelphia shipyard in the United States, as the conglomerate seeks to expand its US naval shipbuilding operations, according to the company. Kim Hyuk has been named president of Hanwha Philly Shipyard, effective Monday, succeeding David Kim, who help…
As concerns over the financial health of a state-owned conglomerate rattled China’s bond market over the past week, analysts said its challenges reflected the lasting toll of the country’s prolonged property crisis, with local governments struggling to find sustainable alternatives beyond real estate to support thei…
A popular Soviet joke goes like this: a factory worker was caught stealing parts, piece by piece, to assemble a sewing machine for his wife at home. When the interrogator asks whether he ever managed to put it together, the worker sighs: “No matter how many times I reassemble it, I keep ending up with a Kalashnikov …
North Korea launched several missiles toward the East Sea on Wednesday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The JCS did not immediately disclose the exact number of missiles launched, their flight distances or other specifications. If confirmed to be ballistic missiles, Wednesday's launch would mark North Kore…
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- A senior North Korean ruling party official has arrive...
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has called for stronger cooperation among ...
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Poland have discussed ways to strength...
SEOUL — The powerful sister of North Korea's leader is warning the United States that her country will mount a stronger response to Washington's 'invariable hostile policy' toward Pyongyang, the state news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.
SUWON, South Korea, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- Even with his team enjoying an 8-0 lead o...
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- Senior officials of South Korea and Switzerland have d...
China is helping to train Solomon Islands police to use water cannons as part of an ongoing security partnership that is viewed with scepticism by the West. The Chinese embassy said on Tuesday that six officers from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force took part in a week-long training exercise, without giving dat…
SUWON, South Korea, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- In his professional career that began 11 ...
