Seoul shares opened higher Thursday as Wall Street rallied after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank will not wait until inflation “gets all the way down to 2 percent” for a rate
South Korea’s exports jumped 33.8 percent on-year in the first 10 days of July, data showed Thursday.
Outbound shipments reached US$17.75 billion in the July 1-10 period, compared with $13.26 billion tallied a year earlier,
Rival parties on Thursday clashed over a recent police decision not to charge a former Marine division commander accused of responsibility in last year’s death of a young soldier during a search operation for flood
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecast that the South Korean economy would grow 2.6 percent this year on rising exports, Seoul’s finance ministry said Thursday.
The latest figure remained unchanged from its
The population aged 65 or older has surpassed 10 million, accounting for 19.5 percent of the total officially registered population, the interior ministry said Thursday.
The population of those aged 65 or over reached 10,000,062