Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Limit credit-card loans, help debt restructuring

Financial authorities must closely monitor credit card issuers still engaged in loan practices for profit-making if the authorities don’t want to see another credit card crisis devastate the market.

2024-09-30

Seoul to discourage nearly fully charged EVs from using underground parking lots

Starting in September, nearly fully charged electric vehicles (EVs) will be discouraged from accessing underground parking lots in apartment buildings in Seoul following increased incidents of EV fires.

2024-08-09

Allies to begin annual Freedom Shield military exercise next week

South Korea and the United States plan to commence their springtime joint military exercise next week, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North’s recent cruise missile tests.

2024-02-28

North orders intensified readiness near the NLL after 'new' cruise missile test

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test-firing of a new surface-to-sea missile, its state media reported Thursday, and ordered a strengthened defense posture around islands near the western maritime border.

2024-02-15

Kim Jong-un urges constitutional change to define South as 'No. 1 hostile country'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for constitutional amendments defining South Korea as the North's “No. 1 hostile country," Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday.

2024-01-16

Island residents frustrated by delayed warning alert after North Korean shelling

“I clearly heard an explosive noise around 10 a.m. from home,” said Kim Jin-soo, a resident of Baengnyeong Island bordering North Korea. “I didn't know it was North Korea. I thought our military was conducting a military exercise.”

2024-01-05

Speed limits in school zones to be increased from Friday

The new speed limit will be only applied to eight school zones nationwide. The speed limit in school zones will be increased to up to 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour at night and in early morning hours starting Friday.

2023-08-30

Yoon vows to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations

President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations as he marked the anniversary of a 1999 inter-Korean naval skirmish near the maritime border.

2023-06-15

Seoul mayor says sorry, but not sorry for alert message

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Wednesday apologized for "causing confusion" with an early morning evacuation warning sent to residents by the city government in response to a North Korean projectile launch but said the alert was not a mistake.

2023-05-31

Two North Korean families defect across the NLL by boat

Two North Korea families that included children entered the South by sailing across the de facto inter-Korean maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea earlier this month, South Korean military authorities revealed Thursday.

2023-05-18