North Korea fired two ballistic missiles in a northeastern direction Monday, South Korea’s military said, with one of the launches possibly failing and the missile falling inland within the country.

The Joint Chiefs of

The government decided to put on hold a plan to raise gas prices this month despite the mounting losses of the state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) to ease the financial burden on people amid

South Korean stocks finished a tad higher Monday as investors took a breather ahead of the release of the Fed minutes and the second-quarter earnings guidance of Samsung Electronics. The local currency fell against

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, said Monday its June sales dropped 6.3 percent from a year earlier due to a slowdown in domestic sales.

Hyundai Motor sold 375,167 vehicles in June, down

Rival parties clashed Monday over a bill mandating a special counsel investigation into the military’s response to a Marine’s death last year.

The parliamentary House Steering Committee held a plenary meeting and questioned Chung