Новости за 05.04.2017

(ATTN: CORRECTS score in 2nd para; ADDS more comments at bottom) PYONGYANG, April 5 (Joint Press Corps) -- North Korean women's national football team head coach Kim Kwang-min said Wednesday his players are ready to give their best against South Korea

PYONGYANG, April 5 (Joint Press Corps) -- South Korea made a victorious start to their Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup qualifying campaign in North Korea on Wednesday as they trounced India 10-0. South Korea, led by head coach

PYONGYANG, April 5 (Joint Press Corps) -- North Korean women's national football team head coach Kim Kwang-min said Wednesday his players are ready to give their best against South Korea when the two sides go head-to-head in a qualifying match for the

(ATTN: UPDATES with S. Korean stance in paras 4-7) SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Japan's top envoy to South Korea has requested meetings with top government officials apparently to demand Seoul's implementation of a bilateral agreement on the wartime sex

(ATTN: ADDS details, photos) By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, April 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea stunned Britain 3-2 in overtime for its first win at the women's hockey world championships in South Korea on Wednesday. North Korea, ranked 26th,

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Japan's top envoy to South Korea has requested meetings with top government officials apparently to demand Seoul's implementation of a bilateral agreement on the wartime sex slavery issue, a diplomatic source said Wednesday.

By Yoo Jee-ho GANGNEUNG, South Korea, April 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea stunned Britain 3-2 in overtime for its first win at the women's hockey world championships in South Korea on Wednesday. North Korea, ranked 26th, squandered a 2-0 lead in the t

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- A consortium in charge of building a nuclear power plant in Britain will hold talks with South Korea's state-run utility firm Korea Electric Power Corp. to examine a potential partnership, a senior British official said Wedne

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details in paras 12-16) By Chang Dong-woo SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's TV dramas have seen a glut of time-slip works in recent years, with varying degrees of success. Series such as "My Love from the Star" and "Gu

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. is eyeing opportunities to expand into the Middle Eastern luxury car market by showcasing its luxury Genesis sedans at a local conference, the company said Wednesday. Hyundai will provide four G90 top-of

By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL/PAJU, South Korea, April 5 (Yonhap) -- A 80-kilometer, 90-minute drive is not long enough to get to really know Hyundai Motor Co.'s latest Grandeur Hybrid. But the test drive did prove the most important aspect pf the car -- its

(ATTN: CHANGES headline; REWRITES throughout with KFA's announcement) SEOUL, April 5, (Yonhap) -- The South Korean men's national football team will hire an experienced local coach and a physical trainer to support its beleaguered boss Uli Stielike, t

By Chang Dong-woo SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's TV dramas have seen a glut of time-slip works in recent years, with varying degrees of success. Series such as "My Love from the Star" and "Guardian" have enjoyed enormous success, while ambit

(ATTN: UPDATES with Ahn's remarks at press conference) SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Ahn Cheol-soo, the presidential nominee of the centrist People's Party, marked the start of his campaign Wednesday by meeting with citizens on an early morning subway.

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Like a student who feels under pressure to finish one's homework, artist Oh Chi-gyun paints from seven in the morning till the evening. When he skips this daily routine, he gets anxious. Even after 30 years o

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- The Seoul city government said Wednesday it will create a new travel pass for visitors during the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Olympics will kick off on Feb. 8 next year for a 17-day run in PyeongChang,

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- The Brazilian Air Force has mobilized an aircraft to search for a missing South Korean cargo ship with 22 crew members that apparently sank in the South Atlantic last week, but the operation has yet to make any headway, a gove

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Hotel Shilla Co. has won the licensing to open its duty-free chain at Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong, expanding its overseas foothold in the business, the company said Wednesday. The operator of Shilla Duty Free said

(ATTN: ADDS latest information in para 5) SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first Internet-only bank, K-Bank, aims to report its first annual profit in 2020, the bank's chief executive has said, as it seeks to make inroads into the credit card b

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday. ---------------- (LEAD) Conservative candidate vows more missile shields, joint management of U.S. nuke assets SEOUL -- Yoo Seong-min, the presi

By Lee Chi-dong SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Shortly after North Korea's ballistic missile launch on Wednesday, the U.S. military issued a statement that may add to the anger of Koreans over the naming of the waters between the peninsula and Japan.

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Die-hard supporters of former President Park Geun-hye created their own political party on Wednesday, pledging to revive what they call a bona fide conservative movement that would vindicate the ex-leader jailed in a corrupti

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's financial regulator on Wednesday confirmed a one-year suspension of new audits by Deloitte Anjin LLC, as punishment for the firm's accounting irregularities of troubled Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering C

(ATTN: RECASTS lead paras to clarify Yoo's campaign pledge does not include deployment of U.S. nuclear arsenal in South Korea; UPDATES with additional information in paras 6-7) SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- Yoo Seong-min, the presidential nominee of the

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks ended slightly lower Wednesday as foreign investors and institutions offloaded local stocks. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composi