Новости за 19.10.2016

(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with fan meeting, quotes; CHANGES headline, photos; ADDS byline) By Lee Haye-ah and Lee Yu-jeong SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The main actors of "Love in the Moonlight" fulfilled a promise with their fans Wednesday as they sig

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's advancing ballistic missile programs pose the biggest challenge to the international regime for controlling the proliferation of missile technology, a high-ranking South Korean official said Wednesday. "Tod

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military on Wednesday warned against the idea of introducing alternative service options for conscientious objectors, as they could be abused as a way of evading mandatory military service. The defense minis

(ATTN: CORRECTS figures in 2nd and 3rd paras) SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- Woori Bank, South Korea's second-largest lender by assets, said Wednesday its net profit jumped 9.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on decreased loan-loss provis

(ATTN: ADDS more info in paras 8-9) SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday threatened to destroy Seoul and the South Korean presidential office if there is any sign of pre-emptive strikes by the United States and the South against Pyongya

By Lee Haye-ah and Youn Go-eun SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- When Kim Min-jung decided to write the script for "Love in the Moonlight," the playwright was throwing herself into unknown territory. Not only had she never thought about writing a historical

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- A retrospective exhibition of works by Yun Hyong-keun, one of the late masters in Korean monochrome painting, will be held in a New York gallery, said their local managing gallery on Wednesday. According to PKM Gallery i

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- Woori Bank, South Korea's second-largest lender by assets, said Wednesday its net profit jumped 9.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on decreased loan-loss provisions. Net profit for the July-September pe

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Koreans have poured more than 3 trillion won (US$2.67 billion) into some 2.4 million tax-efficient individual savings accounts (ISAs), the country's financial regulator said Wednesday. The country introduced the ISA

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- Ssangyong Motor Co., the local unit of Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., said Wednesday that its earnings turned to the black in the third quarter on increased sales. Net profit came to 2.68 billion won (US$2.38 m

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday. ---------------- Hanjin Shipping to dismiss half of land-based employees SEOUL -- Cash-strapped Hanjin Shipping Co. is seeking to trim its wor

(ATTN: ADDS more info) SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- A 36-year-old man died after getting stuck between a train and a screen door separating the subway platform from the tracks of Subway Line 5 at Gimpo Airport Station in Seoul on Wednesday. The man,

(ATTN: UPDATES with more info in last 5 paras) By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's ruling and opposition parties continued to slam one another on Wednesday over scandals surrounding President Park Geun-hye and a leading opposi

(ATTN: ADDS more info in 23rd para) By Song Sang-ho GUMI, South Korea, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday called for bold investment in new businesses, relentless innovation in industrial complexes and greater effor

SEJONG, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government said Wednesday that it will inject an additional 1.5 trillion won (US$1.33 billion) into a project by 2020 to improve outdated facilities of state-sponsored industrial complexes in a way to attrac

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean group Bangtan Boys (BTS) ranked No. 1 on Billboard's "Social 50" with its new album "Wings," marking another big moment for the K-pop scene, according to the chart updated on Tuesday (U.S. time). The group's

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks managed to extend their winning streak to a fourth day Wednesday, helped by foreigner's buying spree and Samsung Electronics' sharp rise. The local currency ascended aga

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SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks managed to extend their winning streak to a fourth day Wednesday, helped by foreigner's buying spree and Samsung Electronics' sharp rise. The local currency ascended against the U.S. dollar. The benchm

By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- Now that prosecutors ended their investigation into Lotte Group and pressed charges against its owner family, the retail giant faces a daunting task of fending off their corruption allegations, and resuming k

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors ended their probe on South Korea's retail conglomerate Lotte Group on Wednesday by indicting the founder as well as his two sons without detention, with critics claiming investigators failed to tap deeper into all

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