Author: Seoul Reporter

The CHA Bio Complicated in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, which homes CHA Biotech’s head workplace (Picture courtesy of CHA Biomedical Group) Hanwha Normal Insurance coverage and Hanwha Life Insurance coverage will make investments 100 billion received in CHA Biotech’s third-party allocation paid-in capital enhance and develop life-cycle tailor-made healthcare companies. CHA Biomedical Group introduced on Jan. 16 that Hanwha Normal Insurance coverage invested 70 billion received and Hanwha Life Insurance coverage invested 30 billion received by third-party allocation paid-in capital enhance. A CHA Biomedical Group official defined, “This funding was made to mix medical and biotechnology capabilities with…

Illustration depicting the primary cesarean part carried out in Latin America in 1844, by Enrique Graue / Courtesy of the Worldwide Museum of Surgical ScienceIn accordance with the United Nations, the world welcomed roughly 132 million newborns in 2024. Of those, roughly 21 to 22 p.c have been born through cesarean part. In stark distinction, 67.4 p.c of the 235,234 infants born in South Korea that 12 months have been delivered by way of the surgical process, which includes an incision into the mom’s uterus.The World Well being Group (WHO) recommends a C-section charge of 10 to fifteen p.c of…

The political upheaval in Venezuela and Iran — together with navy strikes, threatened and realized, by the Trump administration — may present alternatives for China to bolster its declare to being a dependable, stabilizing various to a U.S.-led world order, analysts say.

Lawmakers focus on a invoice calling for a second spherical of the excellent particular counsel probe into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial regulation and corruption allegations, together with different issues, throughout a plenary session on the Nationwide Meeting in Seoul, Thursday. YonhapThe Nationwide Meeting, led by the ruling Democratic Celebration of Korea (DPK), handed a invoice Friday to launch a brand new particular counsel probe into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial regulation imposition and its aftermath, in addition to allegations surrounding his spouse.Lawmakers voted 172 for and two in opposition to, at a plenary session because the opposition’s…

An individual takes a photograph of a cranium that was discovered on the web site of the 1942 flooding of the Chosei undersea coal mine within the southwestern port metropolis of Ube, Japan, in August 2025. (Hong Seock-jae/Hankyoreh) By Hong Seock-jae, Tokyo correspondent“They are saying my great-grandfather labored within the Chosei coal mine.” Park Geum-sok was solely a baby when, in 1988, he first heard the tragic story of his great-grandfather, Park Seok-ki, whom he’d by no means met. His great-grandfather was one of many Korean employees who died when the Chosei coal mine at Tokonami Seashore within the southeastern Japanese…

Korea Change headquarters in Seoul / Korea Instances fileThe Korea Change (KRX) is searching for to introduce a 24-hour buying and selling regime by December subsequent yr to boost the competitiveness of Korea’s capital market, in keeping with international bourses more and more transferring towards round the clock buying and selling, in accordance with firm officers Friday.As a transitional measure, KRX plans to roll out pre-market and after-hours periods beginning in June, successfully extending every day inventory buying and selling hours to 12 hours from the present six hours and half-hour.Below the proposed framework, KRX is contemplating opening a pre-market…

North Korean beer proven on this Dec. 19, 2023 file picture from Choson Sinbo, a pro-North Korea newspaper in Japan / YonhapSouth Korea will simplify the import procedures for North Korean processed meals in an effort to assist resume inter-Korean commerce on the personal stage, the unification ministry stated Friday.The unification ministry, in session with different authorities businesses, drew up revisions to the enforcement decree associated to inter-Korean trade and different rules in a bid to assist facilitate imports of North Korean processed meals, in line with ministry officers.Below the revised measure, importers of North Korean meals will probably be…

Snow falls at certainly one of Seoul’s publicly-owned hanok in Wonseo-dong, Jongno District, Seoul, on Monday. Hankook IlboSnow fell on Bukchon Hanok Village in northern Seoul on Monday afternoon, however for these fortunate sufficient to be sitting on the heated flooring of a serene hanok, it felt like a calming step again in time.As individuals stepped inside the house, a courtyard opened up, providing a placing open house. Whereas the wood ceiling exuded a basic hanok vibe, the inside was absolutely outfitted for snug residing, with options comparable to a contemporary kitchen, toilet and air-con, making it appropriate for up…

Iran’s present Deputy Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations Gholamhossein Darzi addresses throughout a gathering of the United Nations Safety Council on Iran on the request of america at U.N. headquarters in New York Metropolis, U.S., Jan. 15. Reuters-YonhapUNITED NATIONS — After weeks of escalating stress, U.S. and Iranian officers confronted one another Thursday on the U.N. Safety Council , the place America’s envoy renewed threats towards the Islamic Republic regardless of President Donald Trump’s efforts to decrease the temperature between the 2 adversaries.The U.S. was joined by Iranian dissidents in rebuking the federal government’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests…

Firefighters arrive to place out a hearth at Guryong village in southern Seoul, Friday. Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan Fireplace and Catastrophe Headquarters About 200 individuals have been displaced by a hearth Friday that ravaged by means of a low-income city in southern Seoul, with firefighters placing out the blaze about eight hours after it started, officers stated.The hearth broke out at round 5 a.m. within the Guryong village, one of many last-remaining shanty cities in Seoul, earlier than being extinguished at 1:28 p.m. No casualties have to this point been reported.The hearth had shortly unfold to different components of the…