#Hot Issues of the Week Financial Markets Freeze Up amid Debt Default Debacle surrounding Legoland Resort 2022-10-30 A liquidity crunch is rattling the South Korean bond market following a 140 million-odd dollar default by a contractor in a project financing for ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Top Executive Resigns After Kakao Services Crash 2022-10-23 A top executive at the tech giant Kakao Corporation stepped down on Wednesday in the aftermath of a data center fire that caused massive disruptions ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week DP Chief's Close Aide Arrested on Charges of Receiving Illicit Campaign Funds 2022-10-23 A close confidant of main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung has been arrested on charges of receiving illegal political funds for ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week North Korea Continues to Escalate Tensions 2022-10-23 South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) said that North Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into the East and West Sea buffer zones on ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Yoon Urges Olympic Spirit to Ride out Global Challenges at ANOC Assembly 2022-10-23 Over 200 national Olympic bodies gathered in Seoul on thisWednesday for the 26th General Assembly of the Association of National OlympicCommittees(ANOC). ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week North Korea Says Continued Provocations are Response to South Korea, U.S. Drills 2022-10-16 North Korean state media has given an explanation to the recent surge of missile launches in North Korea. They reported about a "tactical nuclear ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week S. Korea Imposes First Unilateral Sanctions on N. Korea in 5 Years 2022-10-16 South Korea has announced its own sanctions against North Korea for the first time in five years, placing 15 North Korean individuals and 16 institutions ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week BOK Raises Key Rates by 0.5%p to 3% 2022-10-16 The Bank of Korea(BOK) has raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to three percent in a bid to tame inflation.The central bank conducted ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week North Korea fires IRBM over Japan 2022-10-09 North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, on Tuesday in its longest-ever weapons test. As the projectile flew over Japan, ... Listen News
#Hot Issues of the Week Yoon, Kishida Condemn N. Korea's Missile Launches 2022-10-09 President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Funio Kishida spoke on the phone on Thursday and agreed on the need to cooperate on formulating ... Listen News