Senior U.S. and Swedish diplomats expressed concern over North Korea’s “worrying trends,” including its growing military cooperation with Russia and the human rights situation in the reclusive state during their talks in Washington this

South Korea’s stock markets, which had been rattled the previous day by fears of a potential U.S. economic slowdown and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, rebounded, Tuesday, providing relief to investors and policymakers.

Investors in South Korea seem jittery since the stock markets have been on a dizzying roller-coaster ride in recent sessions, triggered by fears that the U.S. economy has been slowing faster than expected.

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The Olympic badminton champion An Se-young insisted Wednesday she is not trying to pick fights with her national team or the sport’s national federation, after she’d leveled criticism against them for archaic systems and

KEPCO Engineering and Construction Co. on Wednesday reported its second-quarter net profit of 16.8 billion won (US$12.2 million), up 44.1 percent from a year earlier.

Operating income for the April-June period was 13.2 billion