18+ hour, 30+ min ago   (323+ words) TOKYO, Sept. 12 (Yonhap) -- Japan again stopped short of acknowledging the forced nature of Korean labor during a ceremony Saturday commemorating victims of a World War II-era mine complex in the country. The annual ceremony was first held in 2024 as a…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (145+ words) SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at Naver Z Corp., the metaverse affiliate of Naver Corp., launched its first-ever walkout Wednesday, protesting against the company's decision to freeze wages. The partial walkout will last until 5 p.m., the portal operator's affiliatewide union said....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (140+ words) SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- The gender equality ministry said Wednesday it is considering filing a complaint against Google for allegedly leaking the personal data of digital sex crime victims. The personal information was earlier exposed on a foreign research project website…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (227+ words) SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Yonhap) -- A coalition of civic groups on Sunday urged UNESCO to swiftly move forward with a long-stalled bid to list documents related to Japan's wartime sexual slavery of women on its Memory of the World Register. In May…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (119+ words) SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- Ven. Jinwoo, the current leader of the Jogye Order, was elected as the leader of South Korea's biggest Buddhist sect for another term Thursday. Jinwoo won 57 percent of the vote to beat Ven. Gyeongwoo, who earned 43 percent…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (218+ words) SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- More than 80 percent of young South Koreans are interested in marriage compared with just 57.6 percent of young Japanese singles, a survey showed Sunday. The poll was conducted on 2,000 South Koreans and 2,000 Japanese aged 20 to 39 from June to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (61+ words) Yonhap News Agency Baby strollers are displayed at the kids products floor of a department store in Seoul on Aug. 26, 2026. The number of babies born in South Korea rose 15.6 percent from a year earlier to 23,111 in June, marking the 24th consecutive…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- The number of babies born in South Korea rose 15.6 percent in June from a year earlier, marking the 24th consecutive month of on-year growth, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 23,111 babies were born in June, up 3,115 from…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (278+ words) SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- The number of babies born in South Korea rose 6.7 percent on-year to 254,300 in 2025, data showed Wednesday, while the country's fertility rate edged up to 0.8, signaling a possible turning point in the prolonged demographic decline of Asia's No....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (967+ words) TONGHUA, China, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- A bus carrying South Korean high school students came to a stop at what seemed like the middle of nowhere after passing by acres and acres of cornfields in Tonghua County in northeast China. Only after…...