The full story of an apparent Chinese espionage maneuver to obtain military secrets through a South Korean active duty soldier was revealed Monday. A Chinese national was indicted last month in connection with the case. The indictment, secured by the office of Joo Jin-woo, a National Assembly member of the ruling People Power Party, was disclosed to the media on Tuesday. According to the indictment, the Defense Counterintelligence Command caught the man trying to get USBs containing sensitive mi

South Korea posted the lowest economic growth rate among 19 major economies in the first quarter. The global economy is embroiled in unprecedented uncertainties caused by a tariff war that the US started and a renewed trade protectionism. Slowed growth has become the reality of many major economies, but the nosedive of South Korea's growth rate is obviously a matter that Koreans should think hard. According to the Bank of Korea, the Korean real gross domestic product -- a key measure of economic

In yet another dramatic twist to the heavy internal strife at the People Power Party, the members on Saturday voted against changing their presidential candidate from Kim Moon-soo to Han Duck-soo, leaving the party leader yielding and offering to resign. Kim has effectively been reinstated as the conservative party's presidential candidate. Following the court’s Friday rejection of former Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo's request to ban the party from holding a national convention that could potenti

A state project to open a new airport early on Gadeokdo, an island in Busan, has run into a glitch. A consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the preferred bidder for the project, submitted the basic design plan to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Monday. The key point of the plan is that the construction period needs to be extended to nine years from the seven years the government required in the notice of tender. It also said that the 10.5 trillion won ($7.3

Lee Jae-myung, former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, vowed Monday to push again to revise the Commercial Act. He also pledged to usher in "an era of Kospi 5000" through economic recovery and growth. The front-runner in the party's presidential primary said he would introduce cumulative voting and make the "separate election method" mandatory in a new amendment bill his party will push. The two provisions were missing from the previous amendment bill, which acting President Han Duck-soo

South Korea will hold "two plus two" trade consultations with the US in Washington on Thursday. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok and Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun will lead the Seoul negotiation team, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will be in charge of the US side. The possibility of US President Donald Trump choosing to get directly involved in the talks cannot be excluded. Last week, the US first held tariff talks with Japan at the White House,

The conservative ruling People Power Party has adopted a 40-hour, 4.5-day workweek as one of its campaign pledges ahead of the June 3 presidential election. Under this pledge, employees would need to work one extra hour per day Monday through Thursday, increasing the workday from eight to nine hours. On Friday, employees would then work 4 hours only, according to the scheme. The current statutory minimum of 40 hours per week would be maintained, while the number of workdays could be reduced to 4

Han's nomination of Constitutional Court justices stirs controversy, strife Acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo nominated Minister of Government Legislature Lee Wan-kyu and Seoul High Court senior judge Ham Sang-hoon as successors to Constitutional Court Justices Moon Hyung-bae and Lee Mi-son, who retire from their posts on April 18. Han appointed Ma Eun-hyuk as a justice of the court. If Lee and Ham are appointed following confirmation hearings, all nine seats of the Constitutional

Gwon Dong-hyun principally works with sculpture and Kwon Sea-jung with documentary filmmaking, but since forming a two-person collective in 2020, their modus operandi has been transdisciplinary in terms of thought experiment and production. Their works of art combine video, sculpture and installation, and some are often shown at film festivals. Their aesthetic interests lie in the entanglement of beauty and disfiguration, the transformation of bodies with regards to emotional layers, and histori