Defense Minister Shin Won-sik on Thursday called on troops to conduct “realistic” training to ensure the end of the North Korean regime if it invades the South, his office said, amid an ongoing South Korea-U.S.

The government has begun forming a committee responsible for allocating 2,000 additional medical school admission seats to universities, officials said Thursday, amid continuing protests from doctors against the plan.

The move came as the government

Hyundai Motor Co., BMW Korea and two other carmakers will recall nearly 70,000 vehicles due to faulty components, the transport ministry said Thursday.

The four companies, including Kia Corp. and Stellantis Korea, are voluntarily recalling

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for intensifying “practical actual war drills” during a visit to a military training base, state media said Thursday, as a joint military exercise between South Korea and the United

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on Thursday asked for major banks’ role and support for the successful reform of the foreign exchange market, the finance ministry said.

Choi made the request during a meeting with the