Freestyle wrestler Lee Hanbit lost her first match of the Paris Olympics on Friday, after receiving a last-minute entry into the competition.

Lee lost to Luisa Niemesch of Germany 3-0 in the round of

KT Corp., the country’s major fixed and mobile carrier, said Friday its second-quarter operating profit fell 14.3 percent from a year earlier due to rising labor costs.

Its operating profit came to 494 billion

Questions have been raised over the crisis response capacity of Mercedes-Benz Korea Ltd., as the company remained largely silent for over a week on an electric vehicle (EV) fire scare that started from one

K-pop boy group NCT Dream will put out a new English single this month, the group’s agency said Friday.

“Rains in Heaven” will hit various music platforms around the world on Aug. 23 at

The chief of Qoo10, the Singapore-based parent firm of TMON and WeMakePrice, said Friday it has begun a process to merge the two e-commerce platforms to help resolve the liquidity crisis facing the companies.