Новости за 29.08.2017

Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP) 1-year TB 1.485 1.480 +0.5 3-year TB 1.772 1.758 +1.4 10-year TB 2.261 2.251 +1.0 2-year MSB 1.

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks finished lower on Tuesday, but pared most earlier losses caused by North Korea's latest missile launch. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Ko

(ATTN: ADDS details and company comments in paras 2-4, 8) SEJONG, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- The government said Tuesday it approved a recall plan on nine models made by Volkswagen Group AG as part of a broader ongoing recall following the massive fake emiss

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday demanded an official apology from an opposition lawmaker who accused President Moon Jae-in of violating laws and the Constitution that he claimed may warrant impeachment. I

SEJONG, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top economic policymaker met with the acting U.S. ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday and emphasized "friendly" consultations on issues concerning possible amendments to the bilateral free trade agreement, the finan

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- The number of public servants disciplined for drunk driving nearly doubled to 1,175 last year from a year earlier, according to government data obtained by a ruling party lawmaker. The Ministry of Personnel Management dat

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday called for a major shift in the country's energy policy to ensure sustainable development, urging closer collaboration among economic and environmental policymakers. "Industrial and land d

(ATTN: UPDATES with more info) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss North Korea's ballistic missile launch at the request of South Korea, the United States and Japa

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- A work of video art combining calligraphy and photography to epitomize the beauty of Korea's alphabet and nature on Tuesday won a contest for the visual promotion of South Korea organized by a Seoul-based cul

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul-based world taekwondo governing body Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Seoul-based Um Hong-gil Human Foundation to help Nepalese schools, set up by the foundation, run programs aimed at learning ho

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks finished lower on Tuesday, but pared most earlier losses caused by North Korea's latest missile launch. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOS

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's food and beverage giant SPC Group said Tuesday it will sharply increase the number of stores of its bakery chain Paris Baguette in the United States as part of its global expansion drive. "We will increase th

(ATTN: ADDS club's statement in paras 4-5) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- A second baseball club has been questioned in connection with a money scandal involving a retired umpire. The Kia Tigers in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) became the late

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will continue its efforts to seek dialogue with North Korea while sternly responding to Pyongyang's provocative acts, its pointman on unification said Tuesday. Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon made the rem

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's firing of a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday is seen as being aimed at showing that it's not bluffing with its recent threat to strike waters near Guam, experts here said. The North launched what's bel

(ATTN: UPDATES throughout) TOKYO, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Tuesday that now is not the right time for dialogue with North Korea during their phone conversation held after North Korea

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean young artists' media art will festoon the giant facade of a building in central Seoul, in a cultural project to drum up excitement for and interest in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the organiz

(ATTN: ADDS outcome of Kang-Tillerson phone discussion in 8-10th para) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea strongly condemned North Korea's latest missile test Tuesday, vowing a stern response to further provocations based on its defense alliance w

(ATTN: ADDS comments, photos) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- A squadron of four South Korean F-15K fighter jets staged a live-bombing drill against North Korea's leadership on Tuesday in response to its latest ballistic missile launch, the Air Force annou

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- There were a few hundred drawings scattered on tables. In front of a half-painted canvas lay paints and brushes, ready to be picked up and used again. Visitors sat at the dimly lit tables, flipping throu

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in called for stepped up efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea on Tuesday, hours after the communist state launched a missile that flew over Japan in the latest violation of U.N. Security Council reso

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- A second baseball club has been questioned in connection with a money scandal involving a retired umpire. The Kia Tigers in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) became the latest club to be embroiled in the scandal, in w

(ATTN: ADDS details in paras 5, 8-10) SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- Former major league first baseman James Loney has cut his South Korean stint short after just 23 games, having returned to the United States in response to a demotion to the minors.

(ATTN: UPDATES with more information in 5th, in paras 9-13, 20-23) By Lee Chi-dong and Lee Haye-ah SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lobbed a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday in a strategic provocation sharply escalating tensions in North

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea made public rare footage of its testing on new ballistic missiles Tuesday, hours after North Korea's ballistic missile launch. The 86-second-long video clip shows the vivid scene of the test-firing of a 500-ki