President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday sent a telegram to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressing his condolences over the recent series of deadly earthquakes in western Japan, his office said.

A magnitude 7.6

South Korea plans to bolster its alliance with the United States in a bid to build a stronger deterrence system against North Korea’s possible military provocations, Seoul’s pointman on the North said Tuesday.

Unification

President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday he will push to scrap a new tax scheme to help promote investment in the country’s stock market.

Yoon made the remark during a ceremony marking the first

Seoul shares closed higher Tuesday, the first trading day of the year, helped by tech gains and an improving global appetite for risky assets. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark

Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southeastern port city of Busan on Tuesday and was airlifted to Seoul for surgery amid fears of additional bleeding, though