The supplier of high-bandwidth-memory products to Nvidia plans to build the chip packaging plant in Cheongju, south of Seoul amid surging demand for artificial-intelligence chips.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected several ballistic missile launches from North Korea's capital region around 7:50 a.m. It stated that the missiles flew approximately 560 miles and that South Korean and U.S. authorities were analyzing the details of the launches.

And yet: some observers wonder whether a society as patriarchal as North Korea’s could accept a female leader. Under Mr Kim, several women have gained big jobs. The second-most powerful person in the country is Mr Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong. For the first time in its history North Korea has a female foreign minister: Choe Son Hui.

S. Korea's Agriculture Ministry said it plans to generate electricity for about 38,000 households a year by converting livestock manure into fuel.

South Korea’s central bank will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 2.50% on Thursday, as the won's fall has limited room for easing, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who have pushed expectations for the next cut to early next year.

The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens to such arduous training.

Explore how socialist market economies operate in China, Cuba, and North Korea, balancing state control and market elements to meet national needs.

North Korea has lashed out at a special sanctions monitoring team composed of multiple countries, calling its activities "illegal" and irrelevant to the United Nations, state media KCNA reported on Monday.