Новости за 20.04.2017

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye's friend at the center of a bribery scandal, has been banned for life from equestrian competitions following her irregularities, an official from t

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Troubled Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Thursday that it filed for a court approval for its debt rescheduling, paving the way for the shipyard to receive a fresh cash injection from its creditors. With

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lashed out at Japan Thursday for trying to remove girl statues symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. Minju Joson, the mouthpiece of North Korea's cabinet, said

(ATTN: CHANGES headline; UPDATES throughout) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States completed the regulatory process needed for Seoul's provision of a base site for a U.S. missile defense battery, the foreign ministry said Thurs

(ATTN: REVISES lead; ADDS more info) GYEONGSAN, South Korea, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Police launched a manhunt for an unidentified armed man after he escaped with a sack full of tens of millions of won from a bank branch of the National Agricultural Coop

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top carmaker, on Thursday kicked off its latest global brand awareness campaign which contains an Antarctic crossing by its Santa Fe sport utility vehicle (SUV). In the 'Shackleton's Retu

(ATTN: ADDS more details in paras 8,12-14) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's propaganda website on Thursday reviled U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in its first response to his recent warning to Pyongyang not to test U.S. resolve and military s

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. ---------------- (News Focus) Trump's 'armada' gaffe stains his commitment to alliance SEOUL -- Mystery persists over U.S. President Donald Trum

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Korean folk painting "Minhwa" has never been given due attention. That there is no proper market for the traditional genre and few paintings are publicly traded in an increasingly popular and active art aucti

(ATTN: UPDATES with more info from 2nd para) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has completed the process to provide a site for the deployment of the advanced U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

(ATTN: ADDS details in last 3 paras) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- The number of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S8 smartphones registered to mobile carriers in South Korea slowed, industry sources said Thursday, apparently due to a shortage in supply f

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will promote the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics to foreigners visiting state-run King Sejong Institutes set up overseas to teach the Korean language, a public foundation that manages the institutes said Thursda

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- A court found comedian Lee Chang-myung Thursday not guilty of leaving the scene of an accident after driving drunk last year, but fined him 5 million won (about US$4,390) for violating laws on road traffic and car accident c

(ATTN: UPDATES with Ahn Cheol-soo's pledge in paras 6-11) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- As the nation marked the Day of People with Disability on Thursday, leading presidential candidates made pledges to increase government spending and improve public s

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- KB Financial Group said Thursday its net profit jumped 60.1 percent on-year for the first quarter, helped by higher interest income and commission fees. KB Financial posted a net profit of 887.5 billion won (US$777.4 mi

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Thursday as institutions scooped up stocks on bargain hunting. The won rose against the dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose

Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP) 1-year TB 1.465 1.460 +0.5 3-year TB 1.675 1.670 +0.5 10-year TB 2.144 2.144

MOKPO, South Korea, April 20 (Yonhap) -- A probe to shed light on the exact cause of the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry will begin late next month, a special fact-finding body said Thursday. The eight-member panel set up last month by special la

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Shinhan Financial Group Co., a major South Korean banking group, said Thursday that its first-quarter net profit surged more than 27 percent from a year earlier largely thanks to a clawback of loan-loss provisions from its c

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top court on Thursday overturned a lower court's decision that upheld a 14 billion won (US$12.28 million) tax levied on a donation of 18 billion won given to a local scholarship foundation. The Guwon Schola

By Shim Sun-ah, Kim Heui-seon SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Actor Choi Min-sik said on Thursday that he came to understand politicians' endless longing for power after playing the title role of the political film "The Mayor," in which he seeks his third

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Air Force dispatched a nuclear sniffer aircraft Thursday to the east of the Korean Peninsula amid the possibility of North Korea's imminent nuclear test, a government source said. "The WC-135 Constant Phoenix, a

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry said Thursday that it is working to confirm reports that Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump that Korea "used to be a part of China." "We are working to confirm the r

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Thursday as institutions scooped up stocks on bargain hunting. The won rose against the dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 10.75 points, or 0.50 percent, to cl

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. has lowered the prices of its i30 hatchback models to attract customers amid tougher competition from rivals, the carmaker said Thursday. Hyundai Motor has cut the mainstay hatchback's sticker price by