Новости за 05.07.2016

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's meteorological agency said Tuesday it has detected a magnitude 5 earthquake in the water only 52 kilometers off the coast of the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan. The Busan Regional Office of Meteorology

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(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with foreign ministry's press release) SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Tuesday called on China to take "effective" and "tangible" countermeasures aimed at resolving the issue of illegal fishing by its fishermen, the

(ATTN: ADDS details in last four paras) SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Tuesday dismissed a call to exempt agricultural, fishery and livestock products from the application of an anti-graft act, saying their exemption will un

(ATTN: RECASTS lead with photo) SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea should keep pressing North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, the country's top diplomat said Tuesday, adding that the focus should be placed on enforcing tough sanctions on Py

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top trade official met his Myanmarese counterpart Tuesday to discuss ways to enhance bilateral cooperation, Seoul's trade ministry said. Trade and Energy Minister Joo Hyung-hwan and Myanmar's newly-appointed

By Yoo Jee-ho SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean archer Ki Bo-bae has experienced the highest of the high and the lowest of the low in her sport. Ki was a double gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, winning both the individual and the te

By Joo Kyung-don PAJU, South Korea, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Olympic football team head coach Shin Tae-yong said Tuesday he will not allow his players to use social networking services (SNS) at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games next month. I

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- A famous South Korean songwriter and a British law firm have together founded an entertainment firm in London in a bid to discover young Asian talent and help them advance into the British music industry, the pop music compose

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Tuesday approved US$21 million worth of projects mainly aimed at helping refugees and others in need in Africa, the foreign ministry said. The projects include refugee support programs and health care servic

(ATTN: ADDS remarks by Seoul's defense minister in para 7) SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States have yet to decide when and where to deploy the advanced American defense shield Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Seoul'

By Joo Kyung-don PAJU, South Korea, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Two South Korean full backs with the Olympic football team said Tuesday they will show better performances at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games despite the criticism that they haven't played many ma

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- A new exhibition will open this week to introduce to the public the country's most gifted, emerging architects, a local museum said Tuesday. In a press briefing, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporar

(ATTN: UPDATES with more info in paras 12-15) SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye will invite all lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party to her office Cheong Wa Dae for a luncheon meeting later this week, the party's floor leader said Tue

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has recently increased its presence in a global financial advisory organization to have a bigger say when the member countries set and revise international financial rules, its financial regulator said Tuesday.

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Tuesday dismissed a call to exempt agricultural, fishery and livestock products from the application of an anti-graft act, saying their exemption will undermine the basic purpose of the act due

By Joo Kyung-don PAJU, South Korea, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Two goalkeepers with the South Korean Olympic football team said Tuesday they will keep a friendly rivalry going at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games. Kim Dong-jun and Gu Sung-yun were named to

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. ---------------- Veterans return to Olympics after eight years away SEOUL -- Competing in an Olympics is considered a great honor for athletes, an

By Yoo Jee-ho SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Competing in an Olympics is considered a great honor for athletes, and for two South Korean veterans this year's Rio de Janeiro Summer Games will hold even greater significance. Female weightlifter Yoon Jin-

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Red tape hinders new businesses at three out of 10 big companies at home, a poll showed Tuesday in the latest sign that regulations could hold back corporate management. The survey of 141 local companies released by the Ko

By Chung Joo-won, Lee Eung-jung SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- It took 10 years for South Korean girl group Wonder Girls to "tal-Park," or "walk out of chief producer Park Jin-young's shadow," its members wittily said in an interview in southern Seoul earl

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- Soyeon of South Korean girl group T-ARA and Oh Jong-hyuk of Click-B put an end to their six-year relationship, their management agencies confirmed on Tuesday. "Oh Jong-hyuk recently broke up with Soyeon," an official of DS

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has not detected any signs North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is preparing a visit to China, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, commenting on what would be his first foreign trip since taking power. On Monday, the

(ATTN: CORRECTS figure in bottom para) SEJONG, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will invest a combined 42 trillion won (US$36.6 billion) into the renewable energy sector by 2020 as part of efforts to expand the environmentally friendly power supply syst

(ATTN: UPDATES with law, share prices, other details; ADDS photo, byline) By Lee Chi-dong SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust watchdog has effectively banned SK Telecom Co. (SKT) from taking over the country's dominant cable TV operator