The Korea Times - August 07, 2025

Ex-first lady appears for questioning

Korea faces mounting defense pressure ahead of Lee-Trump summit

Gen Z drives values-based consumption amid ESG issues

Minister vows ‘zero tolerance’ for discrimination against foreign workers

MARKETS

Ex-first lady appears for questioning by special prosecutor

President orders probe into lawmaker’s alleged stock trading under aide’s name

Workers

Pressure

Middle schooler arrested after bomb threat

Medical bills for older adults approach half of all health care spending

Chinese group tourists to get temporary visa-free entry

Investment banks raise 2025 growth forecasts

Cash handouts boost convenience stores, optical shops

KakaoBank reports record earnings in H1

Innocean presents ‘world’s largest lifeguard’ at Busan beach

FTA with US still effective: finance chief

Millennium bets $250 mil. in Korean stocks

SK Telecom Q2 operating profit drops 37.1%

LG CNS to build Korea’s 1st overseas AI data center

HD Hyundai Heavy lands MRO contract for US Navy ship

‘Self-praising ’ corporate policy catches flak

HanmiGlobal joins Romanian nuclear plant refurbishment

Agriculture ministry to showcase K-food, smart farming at APEC meeting

Tridge eyes improved food security by fixing data asymmetry

RDA, APEC co-host workshop on digital agriculture

North Chungcheong to host traditional music, arts festival next month

Jecheon to host medicine, natural products industry expo

Number of economically active seniors hits record high in 2025

Trump says pharma, chips tariffs incoming

Netanyahu hints at expanded war in Gaza

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing

2 Chinese nationals charged with illegally shipping AI chips to China

Trump narrows US Fed chair search to four

Flash flood hits India’s Himalayan town

Market confidence

Ex-prisoner’s wish

Korea’s liberation at 80

Joe Rogan belonged on Time’s list of best podcasts

Political unity needed for negotiations with US

The Trumping of Europe

More unlawful tariffs

Will ‘My Daughter Is a Zombie’ be 2025’s 1st 10 mil. admissions hit?

Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ to open this year’s Busan film festival

TXT to headline Korea’s Liberation Day eve concert at Gyeongbok Palace

Overseas sales of translated Korean books hit record high after novelist Han Kang ’s Nobel Prize triumph

94-year-old survivor of Japanese forced labor awarded national medal

Winners of 2025 Miss Korea pageant

Suspect gets trial date over Matthew Perry’s death

Lady Gaga leads MTV VMAs nominations

Romania former president Ion Iliescu dies at 95

Loneliness is a common theme for mother and her sons

Last Word in Astrology

Peace Memorial Park

Korea’s football hero Son agrees to LAFC contract

Led by 2 major champions, host Korea seeded 3rd at LPGA match-play