The labor market next year will accept around 191,000 foreign workers designated non-professional. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on Dec. 22 in a meeting of the Foreign Workforce Policy ...

New rules will allow foreign nationals from next year to directly invest in domestic stocks without needing separate accounts in Korea. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) and its enforcement arm ...

The growing popularity of the Korean language has led to over 550,000 people taking this year the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), with the number of domestic test centers and countries offering ...

Vietnam's top leader To Lam, who is general secretary of his country's Communist Party, will pay a state visit to Korea from Aug. 10-13 at the invitation of President Lee Jae Myung as the first ...

The inaugural Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting of digital and artificial intelligence (AI) ministers led by Korea has adopted a statement on AI and digital cooperation. The Ministry of ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) on July 27 said they will jointly host a "new space seminar" with three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, ...

The soundtrack to "KPop Demon Hunters," a hit Netflix animated film about K-pop, has made a huge splash on major music charts worldwide. Billboard on July 15 said the track "Golden" sung by the ...

The minimum hourly wage for next year has been set at KRW 10,320, up 2.9% from this year's. The Minimum Wage Council on July 10 decided this at its 12th plenary meeting at Government Complex-Sejong in ...

President Lee Jae Myung on June 4 at 6:21 a.m. officially began his term as the country's 21st president. The National Election Commission (NEC) that morning held a plenary meeting to officially ...

Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that the hydrogen power bidding market for 2025 opens today. The hydrogen power bidding market is a system for purchasing and supplying ...

The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Business Travel Card, which allows business travelers from APEC member states to enter 19 economies in the group including Korea quickly and easily without ...

The launch of the K-Humanoid Alliance seeks to make the nation a global superpower in humanoid robots by 2030 through active government support. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on April 10 ...