Новости за 24.06.2017

(ATTN: ADDS details, photos) By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The biennial world championships in taekwondo opened here on Saturday with early round action in the men's and women's lightest weight classes. T1 Arena inside Taek

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Thousands of South Koreans staged a protest rally in central Seoul on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the deployment of an American high-tech anti-missile defense system as President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart

By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korean taekwondo practitioners staged a historic performance in South Korea at the start of the martial art's premier international competition. A demonstration team from the North Korea-l

(ATTN: ADDS photos, details at bottom) SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Saturday invited North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games to be held in the country early next year, while welcoming a North Korean delegation to the

By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Two taekwondo stars from last year's Summer Olympics said Saturday they look forward to renewing their rivalry at the ongoing world championships in South Korea. Lee Dae-hoon of South Korea, the

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Saturday invited North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games to be held in the country early next year, while welcoming a North Korean delegation to the World Taekwondo Championships. "I

By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean leader of global taekwondo said Saturday he was hopeful the two Koreas would continue to engage in exchange programs following their historic meeting here. Choue Chung-won, pres

By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Taekwondo's top athletes said Saturday they welcome new scoring rules designed to make their sport more exciting and spectator-friendly. The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Taekwondo Cham

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae expressed dismay Saturday over what it called "false" reports by a Japanese newspaper that suggested a possible crack in the South Korea-U.S. alliance. The rare rejection by

By Yoo Jee-ho MUJU, South Korea, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The biennial world championships in taekwondo opened here on Saturday with early round action in the men's and women's lightest weight classes. Taekwondowon in Muju, 240 kilometers south of Seou

June 25 1916 -- Japan, which colonized Korea from 1910-1945, begins construction on the office of the governor-general inside Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal residence of Korea's Joseon Dynasty in central Seoul. The colonial headquarters exerc

(ATTN: RECASTS para 4 with Samsung Bioepis' response; DELETES last para as the company holds no detailed plan on U.S. release) SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Bioepis Co. said Saturday its biosimilar to treat rheumatoid arthritis won a 'positive op

SEJONG, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The nominee for the new head of the National Tax Service (NTS) said Saturday he plans to expand monitoring on possible tax evasion by foreign companies based in South Korea. Han Seung-hee said the agency was currently pr

SHANGHAI, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Shipments of North Korean products to China tumbled more than 30 percent on-year in May, Chinese data showed Saturday, an apparent outcome of China's import ban on North Korean coal as part of international sanctions again

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The founder of South Korea's retail giant Lotte Group has lost his seat on the board of the conglomerate's holding firm, industry sources said Saturday. Japan-based Lotte Holdings Co., the holding firm of the group's Japa

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea once again urged South Korea to remove all sanctions against the communist country and stop the latter's joint military exercises with the United States as part of conditions to resume inter-Korean dialogue. T

(ATTN: DELETES 7th para to clarify the product will "not" be the first autoimmune disease-related biosimilar product to be approved in Europe) SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Bioepis Co. said Saturday its biosimilar to treat rheumatoid arthritis wo

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's bourse is set to move in a tight range next week, as gains in tech stocks are likely to be offset by declines in non-tech shares, analysts said Saturday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSP

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Bioepis Co. said Saturday its biosimilar to treat rheumatoid arthritis won a 'positive opinion' from the European Medicines Agency, paving the way for the product's official release in the region. The joint ventur

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Shares of South Korea's No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. gathered ground throughout this week as investors were rosy on its move to buy Toshiba Corp.'s memory arm, market watchers said Saturday. According to the country's ma

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan has claimed an encouraging victory in a tune-up meet for next month's world championships. Park won the 400m freestyle title at the Sette Colli Trophy at Stadio del Nuoto in Rome on Frid

Song's suspicious career Song Young-moo, the former Navy chief of staff tapped as the defense minister for the new Moon Jae-in administration, is being contested by the opposition as unfit due to his connection with the arms industry. A month afte

US should explain President re-questions accelerated THAAD deployment President Moon Jae-in wants to know what caused the accelerated deployment of the U.S. missile interceptor Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The United St

War on vested interests Sharing benefits is the place to start for labor reform The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions called for a general strike on June 30. Tens of thousands of its members are expected to join the strike nationwide.

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on June 24. Korean-language dailies -- FTC head says he will wait for voluntary reform of chaebol (Kyunghyang Shinmun) -- Appeasement policy only possi