Новости за 25.10.2017

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will hold a public hearing next month on the renegotiation of a free trade pact with the United States, Seoul's trade ministry said Wednesday, as the two countries move to reset the terms at Washington's call.

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- An advisory panel to the cultural heritage authorities on Wednesday rejected a plan to build a cable car on a mountain range on the country's east coast, citing possible damage to the environment, wildlife and cultural assets

(ATTN: CHANGES photo; ADDS details) SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in threw the ceremonial first pitch at the opening game of the Korean Series in the southern city of Gwangju on Wednesday. Moon, a well-known baseball fan, made a surp

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a five-year jail term for a university student for injuring his professor with a homemade bomb in early June. The 25-year-old postgraduate student at Yonsei University in western Seoul w

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in threw the ceremonial first pitch at the opening game of the Korean Series in the southern city of Gwangju on Wednesday. Moon, a well-known baseball fan, made a surprise appearance at the game between

GWANGJU, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Roger Bernadina, hard-hitting outfielder for the Kia Tigers in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), isn't one to worry about what other hitters have been doing -- even if they've been doing something historic. The Tig

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday promised South Korea's continued development cooperation with African countries. "Beyond the political importance of Africa as a continent of more than a quarter of all soverei

(ATTN: UPDATES in paras 3-7 with officials saying Kim is not subject to investigation) SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors raided the home and office of the head of Nonghyup Financial Group as part of an investigation into hiring irregularities at

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday. ----------------- Court appoints five lawyers to defend Park SEOUL -- A Seoul court appointed five lawyers to defend ousted former President P

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The chief of South Korea's Supreme Court said Wednesday he will make sure the judiciary is reformed during his term and he's looking into many options to put the task into practice. "(I'm) contemplating the excessive pow

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Encouraged by the recent runaway success of Mnet's idol audition program "Produce 101 Season 2," KBS 2TV has ambitiously came up with its own version that it hopes can produce a touching turnaround success story. Titled "

(ATTN: CORRECTS ownership in last para) SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Samsung BioLogics, a biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group, posted an operating income during the third quarter of the year, shifting from an operating

GWANGJU, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Kia Tigers' right-hander Lim Chang-yong has been around in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) for so long that he actually pitched against his current manager, Kim Ki-tai, in the mid-1990s. Now at the same club as ma

SOFIA, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon called for expanding economic cooperation with Bulgaria on Wednesday, saying he will put a joint economic committee and an industrial cooperation committee between the two countries int

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's new ambassador to Japan reaffirmed Wednesday a two-track approach to bilateral ties that separates historical disputes from future-oriented cooperation on North Korea and the economy. Amb. Lee Su-hoon also

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean civic groups on Wednesday urged Japan to offer an apology over its claim on Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo as they marked the Day of Dokdo to renew their determination to defend the islets from Japan. Th

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The frequency of North Korea's missile tests has nosedived in the fourth quarter of each year after Kim Jon-un assumed power in 2011, a U.S.-based researcher has said. Kim's regime has conducted a total of 116 missile tes

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks finished at a fresh all-time high Wednesday, as investors scooped up market heavyweights, such as banking stocks, market analysts said. The Korean won fell against the U

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Conceptual artist and architect Choi Jae-eun's long-term project "Dreaming of Earth" started from an interesting irony she found in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea: One of the world

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SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- BTS, EXO and other K-pop big names will be part of a concert celebrating the arrival of the torch for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games next week, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The concert will be held at Gwanghwamu

(ATTN: UPDATES closing share price at bottom) SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean display maker LG Display Co. said Wednesday its third-quarter net profit jumped more than two-fold from a year earlier on the back of expanded sales of premium produ

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Samsung BioLogics, a biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group, posted an operating income during the third quarter of the year, shifting from an operating loss a year earlier, the company said We

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Attacking midfielder Jeon Ga-eul of the national football team is set to become the first South Korean woman to play in Australia, her local club announced Tuesday. Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels in the WK League said

SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The government unveiled detailed plans on Wednesday for a key policy goal of upgrading a total of 205,000 non-regular workers in the public sector into regular employees by 2020. The labor ministry made the announcement