South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments said Friday the company manages more than $300 billion in assets, with nearly half of that internationally.

Based in Ansan, a suburb of Seoul, Sanil Electric manufactures transformers, the vital equipment that changes voltage and makes electricity safe to use.

People line up outside a restaurant specializing in samgyetang — a traditional ginseng chicken soup — in Jongno District, cental Seoul, on July 20. The day marked chobok, the beginning of the hottest season in the Korean lunar calendar, when eating samgyetang is believed to to fortify the body against the sweltering heat. [NEWS1]

North Korea said Sunday it expects this year's wheat harvest to be more than triple that of 2021. In a front-page story, the Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper, wrote that harvests of wheat and barley exceeded the national grain production plan.

Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.

North Korea is banning the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex that leader Kim Jong Un hailed it as “one of the greatest successes this year.