Korea and China will hold regular meetings between their trade ministers and expand practical cooperation to sectors like digital technology and protection for intellectual property rights. Following ...

The labor market next year will accept around 191,000 foreign workers designated non-professional. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on Dec. 22 in a meeting of the Foreign Workforce Policy ...

Everyone's Card, a new service of the mass transit discount K-Pass, from next year will offer full reimbursement of public transportation fees that exceed a monthly threshold. The Metropolitan ...

The growing popularity of the Korean language has led to over 550,000 people taking this year the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), with the number of domestic test centers and countries offering ...

The country's small modular reactors (SMRs) under development have received high marks for global competitiveness in an evaluation by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic ...

The minimum hourly wage for next year has been set at KRW 10,320, up 2.9% from this year's. The Minimum Wage Council on July 10 decided this at its 12th plenary meeting at Government Complex-Sejong in ...

Real gross domestic product (real GDP, chained volume measure of GDP) increased by 2.0% in 2024 compared to the previous year. ※ Please see the attached files for details.

Domestic output and exports of cosmetics last year both set record highs. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on May 27 said its analysis of national cosmetics production, exports and imports last ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has ranked Korea 12th in its Gender Inequality Index this year covering 193 nations, up from 16th last year and No. 2 in Asia after Singapore (eighth).

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of South Korea announced the official launch of an R&D project aimed at commercializing hydrogen electric trains by 2028. The project will ...

The launch of the K-Humanoid Alliance seeks to make the nation a global superpower in humanoid robots by 2030 through active government support. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on April 10 ...

A new government initiative seeks to develop the core technology for Hypertube trains, or "airplanes on rails." The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on April 9 announced a three-year ...