Новости за 06.07.2017

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- The founder of a major South Korean pizza franchise was arrested on Thursday over suspicions that he ripped off contractors and embezzled company funds. The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Chung W

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea Thursday to return to negotiations aimed at ending its nuclear ambition, also saying he was willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at any time and any place un

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(ATTN: UPDATES 12th para; ADDS more info in 13th para) By Joo Kyung-don SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's new national football team head coach Shin Tae-yong said Thursday he is ready to devote himself to help South Korea achieve its ninth cons

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank is expected to keep its key rate frozen in July, foreign investment banks said Thursday. The Bank of Korea (BOK) is set to hold its rate-review session next Thursday to decide whether to maintain

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- The United States ranked third in the number of antidumping and countervailing duty actions taken against South Korean companies this year after China and India, an official source said Thursday. In a Seoul forum hosted b

JINCHEON, South Korea, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A new training center for South Korea national team athletes will officially open in October, the country's top sports body said Thursday. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said the construction

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea dropped out of the top 50 in the FIFA rankings for the first time since June 2016, following the national football team's recent mediocre performances. According to the July ranking unveiled by FIFA on Thursda

(ATTN: CORRECTS typo in 7th para) SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A national security advisor to President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that the U.S. appears to have come to a conclusion too hastily about North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- Yonhap News Agency has joined hands with a state-run Korean language institute to better promote the nation's language and culture abroad. Park No-hwang, president and CEO of Yonhap, and Song Hyang-keun, president of the K

(ATTN: ADDS more comments in last 5 paras, photo) SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A national security advisor to President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that the U.S. appears to have come to a conclusion too hastily about North Korea's intercontinental ballistic

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday condemned South Korea and the United States' joint ballistic missile exercise, warning that it will not condone any move berating its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The

JINCHEON, South Korea, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Olympic body chief said Thursday it is too early to talk about a unified team or joint march between the two Koreas at the 2018 Winter Games because North Korea has yet to confirm its participatio

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A cross-border stock index managed by South Korean and Taiwanese bourse operators, will be launched during the third-quarter of this year, the Korea Exchange said Thursday. The new stock index will be comprised of blue-chi

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A national security advisor to President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that the U.S. appears to have come to a conclusion too hastily about North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capability, adding that it will ta

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. ------------------ (LEAD) Seoul stocks almost flat ahead of Samsung's earnings guidance (ATTN: CORRECTS figures in para 2; ADDS bond yields at botto

(ATTN: ADDS more details in paras 6-8) By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea rose 1.4 percent last month from a year earlier on robust demand for Japanese vehicles, industry data showed Thursday. The

(ATTN: CLARIFIES union's demands in 4th para; ADDS company's offerings in 5th para and other carmakers' wage talks in last four paras) By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Mo

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has decided to provide US$100,000 in humanitarian aid to the Philippines to help the country better weather a militant siege in a southern city, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The siege by a terrorist grou

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Thursday ordered the state to pay some 680 million won (US$604,000) in compensation to a former student activist who was found wrongly convicted of aiding and abetting his friend's suicide and forging his will

(ATTN: CORRECTS figures in para 2; ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks finished almost flat Thursday, as investors took to the sidelines ahead of Samsung Electronics Co.'s earnings guidance for the second quarter