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Bankers' Salaries Soar as Jobs Dwindle

Another surge in coronavirus infections looms as delay after delay hits Korea's vaccination efforts. According to health authorities, the daily number of new infections stood at 473 on Monday morning, dropping below 500 for the first time since March 30. Minister of Health and Welfare Kwon Deok-cheol in a statement on Sunday warned, "We're at a crossroads where a fourth wave of infections could start" and the daily number of infections "could reach 1,000 any time." People line up outside a church in Seoul on Easter Sunday. /Yonhap Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun warned the government could ex...

China Knows S.Korea Is Weakest Link in U.S.' Asia Alliances

Scientist: Kyoto's Earliest Cherry Blooms in 1,200 Years Point to Climate Change

April 01, 2021 13:11 Shortly after the inter-Korean summit in 2018, President Moon Jae-in scrapped research into responding to any North Korean nuclear, biological or chemical attack. He had ordered the study in 2017 after the North's sixth nuclear test but simply called it off citing "changes in the security landscape." Surely even the president did not really think that the North Korean threat had simply disappeared after one meeting with bellicose leader Kim Jong-un. Moon's first defense minister said in 2019 that there was nothing to fear about North Korea except its nuclear weapons an...