South Korean authorities arrested and detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, over his brief declaration of martial law last month. The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings drafted into flood reconstruction.

The data showed private consumption weakened and construction investment remained in contraction in the fourth quarter. Exports edged up on demand for semiconductors and other information-technology goods.

South Korea's economy barely grew in the fourth quarter of 2024, as the country's worst political crisis in decades hurts already weakened domestic demand and threatens to further sap growth in a year of rising external risks under a second Trump presidency.

U.S. stocks are pulling back from their all-time high, but are still on track to close out a second straight winning week. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% on Friday, a

South Korea's economy expanded at a weaker-than-expected pace of 2.0% in 2024 after lackluster growth in the fourth quarter amid weak consumer and business spending, bolstering the case for the central bank's another rate cut next month.

U.S. stocks are drifting near a record as Wall Street’s recent rally loses some momentum. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% in early trading Thursday, a day after after pulling to

Global shares are trading mixed after Wall Street’s tech superstars tumbled as a competitor from China raised doubts over the recent artificial-intelligence market frenzy. Shares rose in early Tuesday trading in Germany and Britain while falling in France.

Kwanwoo Jun is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s real-time news team in Singapore, where he covers the Bank of Korea as well as South Korea's trade and finance ministries. Kwanwoo also ...

The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty are expected to open a tad higher on Thursday, following positive trend at Gift Nifty.

Chinese AI app not working properly amid huge interest in ChatGPT competitor - DeepSeek says its AI model is similar to US giants like OpenAI, despite fears of censorship around issues sensitive to Be

Over the past eight decades, there have been 18 fatal commercial flights carrying at least 80 passengers where survivors were found in the wreckage.

Shares for leading US chip firm Nvidia dropped by almost 17% on Monday after the emergence of DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley.