Kia Tigers closer Jung Hai-young, the top vote-getter for the All-Star Game, will miss the midseason exhibition due to shoulder injury, his manager said Tuesday. The Tigers put Jung on the injured list on Monday with rotator cuff tendinitis in his right shoulder. The Tigers initially held out hope that Jung would be able to […]
Over the first two months of his first season in Korea, left-handed pitcher Dietrich Enns went from winning his Opening Day start for the defending champions LG Twins to having his manager declaring that his job was in jeopardy. Along the way, though, the 33-year-old American has been trying to block out distractions and focus […]
Tickets for summer exhibition matches in Seoul involving Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur have all sold out, organizers announced Saturday. Korean streaming service Coupang Play said tickets for two matches in the “2024 Coupang Play Series” were all snapped up after going on sale at 8 p.m. Friday on its website. Tickets were only available […]
Germany is through to the quarter finals of a major tournament for the first time in eight years, but clouds remain for Julian Nagelsmann’s Euro 2024 hosts. The home side won 2-0 in Dortmund, coming up not only against a determined and organised Denmark, but also a 25-minute thunderstorm delay which derailed Germany’s early momentum. […]
Fears of further rises in the prices of goods and services are mounting, amplified by a nearly 8 percent year-to-date unmuted depreciation of Korea’s currency against the U.S. dollar, market watchers said Monday. The weaker currency-oriented spikes in import prices combined with stalled rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) are major monetary policy […]
The number of young Koreans who opted out of the job market in May was recorded at about 400,000, the highest since 2020. Despite the government’s measures announced last year to integrate this group into the labor market, their number increased again after nine months as the number of full-time jobs decreased. According to a […]
The Bank of Korea (BOK) and the agriculture ministry remain at odds over the cause of fresh produce price inflation, experts said Thursday. A central bank report released Tuesday said the prices of apples and potatoes in the country were up to three times higher compared to its advanced peers, due to low productivity, low […]
Korea’s producer prices rose for the sixth consecutive month in May, driven in part by the soaring prices of services and utility costs, central bank data showed Friday. The producer price index, a major barometer of consumer inflation, increased 0.1 percent in May from a month earlier, following a 0.3 percent on-month gain the previous […]
As Korea looks toward a major revision of its disease classification system, there is a growing debate about whether gaming addiction should be officially categorized as a mental disorder. Rep. Kang Yu-jung of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea proposed a bill to amend the Statistics Act, Tuesday, aiming to prevent the classification of […]
A prominent North Korean defector was named as the new head of the presidential advisory council on unification, the presidential office said Thursday. President Yoon Suk Yeol has tapped Tae Yong-ho, a former North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain, as the secretary general for the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, chief of staff Chung Jin-suk said […]