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South Korean pharmaceutical firm Celltrion said on Tuesday that in an attempt to offset the risk of U.S. tariffs it had become the preferred bidder to acquire a U.S. manufacturing factory from an unnamed global pharmaceutical company.
Asian skin care has been a booming global business for a more than a decade, with consumers in Europe, North and South America, and increasingly the Middle East, snapping up creams, serums and balms from South Korea,
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday he would try to derive a mutually beneficial trade agreement with the United States, in comments ahead of his departure to Washington to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan and top trade envoy Yeo Han-koo will meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington again on Friday in a bid to move closer to a deal on tariffs,
The agreement that Japan secured has added pressure on South Korea to defuse the threat of high tariffs on its exports to the United States.
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Host Australia has been drawn into Group A with South Korea, Iran, and the Philippines for next year's Women's Asian Cup. The Matildas, who reached the semifinals at the 2023
The Matildas have been pitted against the team that ended their last Women's Asian Cup campaign, facing South Korea in the group stage of the 2026 tournament.
South Korea has suspended decades-old radio broadcasts into North Korea in its latest move to ease tensions, marking a symbolic win for Pyongyang by cutting off a rare source of uncensored information for its citizens.
Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi has told his South Korean counterpart Cho Hyun that he hopes to steadily develop bilateral ties, at their first in-person meeting in Tokyo.