South Korea

A survey conducted with 130 presidents of universities showed 52,7% saw attracting foreign students as a key to secure operations of their institutes, as more and more universities in South Korea face financial crises due to a shrinking student population

Four months into the prolonged medical standoff, patients are once again left on edge as medical staff, private practitioners and the largest lobbying group for doctors voted to strike on 18 June to protest the drastic medical school quota expansion

Korea-Africa Summit opens tomorrow Tuesday 4 June 2024 in Seoul as Korea seeks to expand diplomacy with 48 African nations, essential partners to realize the country's vision of becoming a global pivotal state and secure stable supply of natural resources

The national space agency said it will work to develop small reusable space rockets in collaboration with the private sector and explore one of the stable Lagrange points in a bid to make of South Korea a top-five global space power

Hyundai Motor Group has surpassed Volkswagen Group for the first time in Q1 quarterly operating profit, becoming the world’s second-most-profitable carmaker, according to data and industry officials

The new National Assembly of 300 members selected in last week's general election will have no independent members for the first time in over five decades: 58 candidates without political party affiliation ran in 254 constituency, but none prevailed

An activist group led by ecologist Shin Joon Hwan would like to gradually replace all cherry trees of the Yoshino, or Tokyo cherry, variety with a type it claims is native to the country, since cherry trees are symbolic of Japanese colonial rule

Housing supply measures to favor households with newborns up to 2 years old came into effect to curb housing costs, one of the factors bringing the country’s fertility rate to the world's lowest level; 70.000 units per year are offered in the operation

Doctors and trainees, on strike for days, who do not return to work today 1 March will be punished with at least a three-month suspension of their medical licence and other legal action, Minister of the Interior declared

9.000 trainee doctors have tendered their resignations and over 8.000 are on strike to protest a government plan to expand the intake of medical students; South Korea that has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios for a major economy

Air passenger traffic grew 57% on-year in January, with a strong demand for connections to China; international travelers to and from South Korea reached 7,28 million, 91% of record year 2019, according to Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

One-third of tourists who visited Korea in 2023 were 30 years old or younger, according to the Korea Tourism Data Lab, the online information platform of the Korea Tourism Organization, and 42,3% came from Japan, a 15,7% increase from 10 years earlier