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The funeral for late Hyosung Group Chairman Emeritus Cho Suck-rai was held in Seoul on Tuesday as his grieving family and employees commemorated his legacy in the Korean business community.

The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) on Wednesday lambasted President Yoon Suk Yeols meeting with ruling party chief Han Dong-hoon at the site of a market fire a day earlier, branding it as a staged political maneuver.

Koreas new COVID-19 cases on Sunday increased more than 11,000 compared with a week earlier, with the country set to start administering booster shots targeting Omicron subvariants amid growing concerns about the possibility of a wintertime resurgence.

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, marking...

Seoul City allows some gyms, indoor golf driving ranges to open till midnight

Less than 5 pct of Top-ranked Students Come from Low-income Families Posted on Students attend a class at a cram school in Mapo Ward, Seoul, on Oct. 12, 2020. (Yonhap) SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that among high school students in Seoul, only 3 out of 100 high ranking students came from low-income families. According to a report from the Seoul Education Research and Information Institute, the share of those with academic resilience among the high school students i...