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S. Korea, Canada discuss stronger space, defense cooperation amid submarine bidding race

South Korea and Canada have discussed deeper partnership in advanced industries, including space and defense, Seoul's industry ministry said Tuesday, as the country is making last-minute efforts to win Canada's submarine project. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency jointly hosted a business roundtable in Toronto on Monday to promote cooperation between Korean and Canadian companies. The event was attended by presidential chief of staff Ka

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Rival Party Leaders Aggressively Appeal to Voters with 2 Days before Local Elections

[Politics] : Leaders from the ruling and main opposition parties are waging vigorous last-minute campaigns across the country with just two days before the local elections. Democratic Party(DP) Chairman Jung Chung-rae held a meeting on Monday in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, to ramp up support for the ruling ... [more...]

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Rival parties focus on battleground regions in last-minute campaigns for June 3 elections

Rival parties were to stage last-minute campaigns Sunday, the last weekend before this week's nationwide elections, focusing on battleground regions, including Seoul. Up for grabs in the June 3 elections are 16 mayoral and gubernatorial posts, along with 227 heads of local governments and some 4,000 members of local councils. On Sunday, Rep. Jung Chung-rae, leader of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), may visit Seoul, North Jeolla Province and the southeastern city of Ulsan to rally support for D

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Top South Korean Officials in Canada to Pitch for Submarine Bid

[International] : South Korea’s top military brass and defense industry officials are in Canada for a last-minute bid to help win a multibillion-dollar contract to supply Ottowa’s new submarine fleet. According to the defense ministry, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Kim Kyung-ryul and Lee Yong-chul, head of the Defense ... [more...]

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Samsung seals strike-averting wage deal amid bonus backlash

Samsung Electronics and its labor unions signed their 2026 wage agreement Wednesday, formally ending weeks of negotiations after union members approved a last-minute bonus deal that narrowly averted a planned strike. But the agreement is expected to fuel backlash over wide bonus gaps between chip and nonchip employees, and shareholder opposition over profit-linked payouts. The signing ceremony was held at Samsung's employee training center in Giheung, after the deal was approved by a union vote

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Samsung Electronics Bonus Deal Ratified in Face of Opposition

[Politics] : Anchor: Workers at Samsung Electronics have approved the last-minute wage deal that prevented a general strike last week. After a six-day vote, the agreement met with support from 73-point-seven percent of those who cast ballots representing the company’s two largest labor unions. With its ratification ... [more...]

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Samsung's strike-averting wage deal passes union vote

Samsung Electronics’ tentative 2026 wage and bonus agreement passed a union vote Wednesday, a week after labor and management reached a last-minute deal that narrowly averted a planned strike. The agreement won support from 73.7 percent of the 62,616 union members who cast ballots, according to the unions. Turnout reached 95.5 percent of the 65,593 eligible voters. Samsung Electronics and its unions reached the tentative agreement on May 20, just before a planned walkout was set to begin. Under

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Nonchip union seeks injunction against Samsung wage vote

The vote on Samsung Electronics’ tentative 2026 wage agreement faces a last-minute legal challenge after a union representing employees outside the company’s chip business asked a court to halt the ballot. claiming its members were unfairly excluded. The Samsung Electronics Donghaeng Labor Union said Tuesday it had filed for an injunction with the Suwon District Court to suspend the ongoing vote on the tentative agreement reached between the company and the bargaining representative union. Aroun

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Two-thirds of Samsung union members cast ballots on 1st day of wage vote

Around two-thirds of unionized workers at Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday voted on a tentative wage deal following a last-minute agreement with management that averted a strike planned earlier this week. As of 8:25 p.m., around 66 percent of members of the Samsung Electronics Labor Union, the largest union at the tech giant with 70,850 members, had cast their ballots on the first day of the vote, according to the union. Around 69 percent of the 19,000-member National Samsung Electronics Union

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[Breaking] Samsung Electronics union to launch strike after talks collapse

Samsung Electronics' Labor Union said Wednesday it would proceed with a general strike starting Thursday after last-minute government-mediated talks failed to produce a breakthrough. Union chief Choi Seung-ho said the union had accepted a mediation proposal presented by the National Labor Relations Commission, but negotiations collapsed after management failed to present its position. “The union agreed to the mediation proposal presented by the National Labor Relations Commission, but the post-m

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S. Korea, Canada discuss stronger space, defense cooperation amid submarine bidding race

Rival Party Leaders Aggressively Appeal to Voters with 2 Days before Local Elections

Rival parties focus on battleground regions in last-minute campaigns for June 3 elections

Top South Korean Officials in Canada to Pitch for Submarine Bid

Samsung seals strike-averting wage deal amid bonus backlash

Samsung Electronics Bonus Deal Ratified in Face of Opposition

Samsung's strike-averting wage deal passes union vote

Nonchip union seeks injunction against Samsung wage vote

Two-thirds of Samsung union members cast ballots on 1st day of wage vote

[Breaking] Samsung Electronics union to launch strike after talks collapse