Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. (Hyundai E and C) said Friday its second-quarter earnings fell over 30 percent from a year earlier due to a rise in raw material costs.

Consolidated net profit came

Some low-cost airlines in South Korea saw problems with booking or issuing air tickets Friday, an industry source said, in an apparent IT disruption that affected the global airline and financial sectors.

The cyber

South Korea and the Czech Republic have agreed to increase the maximum number of commercial flights connecting the two countries to seven per week, the transport ministry said Friday.

The agreement to raise the

Vice foreign ministers of South Korea and China will hold their first high-level strategic talks in more than two years next week to discuss bilateral cooperation on regional and global issues, Seoul’s foreign ministry

Seoul shares fell for the third straight session Friday in line with overnight losses on Wall Street. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) tumbled