We’ve noticed while scouring shops online that there are a number of Lunar New Year themed items out there to mark the annual celebration.

Kyung Kim, CEO of Hansae Co., Ltd., spoke with Sourcing Journal about some of the company’s 2024 highlights and what is next for its vertical development and nearshoring ventures. SOURCING JOURNAL: Could you outline Hansae’s global growth and acquisition strategy?

South Korean protesters are repurposing traditional flower wreaths and K-pop light sticks as political protest tools amid President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial, with both supporters and opponents sending hundreds of wreaths to government buildings since his December martial law declaration.

The South Korean government has announced it will reduce indirect subsidies for biomass energy. The policy reform comes after domestic and international criticism of biomass energy's link to deforestation.

DamSot is the latest arrival in a wave of restaurants and cafes from South Korea opening in Los Angeles. In May 2024, South Korea-based coffee shop Camel opened its first U.S. location in Silver Lake, immediately drawing lines down the block. In June 2024, one of South Korea’s biggest spicy noodle chains, Jjampong Zizon, opened in Koreatown.

An eventful shareholder meeting provided the latest twist in the dispute between the families whose deceased patriarchs founded the company 50 years ago.

Control of Korea Zinc, the world’s largest producer of zinc, is at stake in a battle challenging the country’s entrenched chaebol system of powerful conglomerates.

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.

South Korea’s military said Friday it suspects North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Russia after its soldiers fighting in the Russian-Ukraine war suffered heavy casualties.

SEOUL, Jan 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's anti-corruption officials on Thursday requested that prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection and abuse of power for his short ...

Heavy snow blanketed South Korea for the second consecutive day Tuesday, disrupting transportation services and causing traffic congestion for people heading to their hometowns for... Traffic on major highways across South Korea showed some signs of ...

The trough will combine with a cold front passing to the south and cross much of the south and west on Tuesday, crossing the southern and central parts of the coast as a cool and gusty southerly change, before stalling along the north coast mid next week.