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Youngone Corp. Chair Sung Ki-hak poses for a photo after receiving the award at the 2025 WCD Visionary Awards on Oct. 6 in Chicago, the US. (Youngone/ Kang Hyung-won)

Youngone wins WCD Emerging Leadership Award

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau speaks during Global Refugee Asylum System meeting, in New York City, US, September 25, 2025. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Pool via REUTERS

US to allow South Koreans to work at sites under temp visas but clear solution elusive

South Korean 10,000 won note is seen on US 100 dollar notes in this picture illustration taken in Seoul, South Korea, December 15, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

US agrees South Korea not a currency manipulator: Seoul

US President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the Oval Office, at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, August 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

South Korea cannot pay $350 billion to US for tariff deal as Trump suggests: top aide

South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun attends a meeting with Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (not pictured) at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, July 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato/Pool/File Photo

South Korea aims to resolve US visa issues before executing $350 billion investment

The first cohort of residents to stay in South Korea's Don't Worry Village. Photo: Empty Public Space

'Don't Worry Village': Where young South Koreans escape long work hours, loneliness

An employee talks on a phone at an office building in Seoul, South Korea, October 2, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

South Korea to fine companies up to 5% of profit for recurring fatal accidents: ministry

A 3D-printed miniature model of US President Donald Trump, the South Korea flag and the word "Tariffs" are seen in this illustration taken July 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

South Korea's top trade envoy heading to US amid stalled trade talks

A South Korean worker who was detained in a huge immigration raid last week at the site of a US car battery project involving Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution in the US state of Georgia, walks through the parking lot of the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea on 12 September 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon

South Korean workers return home a week after US immigration raid

FILE PHOTO: The South Korean and American flags fly next to each other at Yongin, South Korea, August 23, 2016. Picture taken on August 23, 2016. Courtesy Ken Scar/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

South Korea wants workers detained in immigration raid to be able to re-enter US

A view of South Korean and Japanese national flags hoisted ahead of the arrival of South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee, at Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) in Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato/File photo

South Korean and Japanese defence ministers to hold talks in Seoul

FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after the US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington DC, June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

Trump says foreign companies need to train Americans after Hyundai raid

A man walks past the logo of Hyundai Motor during the 2019 Seoul Motor Show in Goyang, South Korea, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

South Korea to fly detained workers back as US vows more raids on employers