Seafood safety fears spread despite Seoul's claim of scientific proof; fishers worry about Koreans losing appetite for marine produce

The leader of South Korea’s main opposition party Rep. Lee Jae-myung, who is currently involved in several criminal trials, said Monday he will not shun the prosecution’s supposed bid to “come after” him and “willingly face” arrest. Lee’s remarks, delivered during the National Assembly plenary session, come after the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea-controlled Assembly already struck down his arrest warrant bill in February. Over the course of t

North Korea called its failed attempt to launch a purported military reconnaissance satellite the "most serious" shortcoming in the first half of this year and reaffirmed its pledge to put it into orbit soon, Pyongyang's state media said Monday. The North made the assessment following a plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, attended by leader Kim Jong-un, that wrapped up the previous day, referring to its botched attempt to launch

The South Korean government recently called for local instant ramen manufacturers to cut down on their prices, which faced the highest annual hike in 14 years, citing falls in international wheat prices. "(Ramen companies) raised (their prices) significantly between September and October last year, but international wheat prices are now about 50 percent lower than they were then," said Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho during a program aired by KBS on Sunday. "I hope the companies wi

The sales of sea salt are said to have surged at many supermarket chains this month. Salt sales reportedly increased 55.6 percent while sun-dried salt sales rose 118.5 percent on-year at Emart June 1-14. Salt sales at Lotte Mart rose 30 percent over the same span from a year earlier. Sun-dried salt sales at an online shopping mall increased sixfold on-year June 1-14. Some shoppers joined wholesalers in stockpiling salt out of fear that Japan’s planned release of treated wastewater from the

The previous Moon Jae-in administration launched an ambitious policy initiative to shift the country’s energy policy toward clean and renewable sources while phasing out nuclear power generation. As with other past large-scale government projects, however, many of President Moon’s renewable energy projects fell into a trap of insider collusion and corruption, involving not only those at private companies, but also government officials including those in charge of energy policy. Rampa