Новости за 05.12.2017

(ATTN: ADDS latest negotiations' result in 4th para) SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Workers at Hyundai Motor Co. will stage a partial strike at the carmaker's main domestic plants this week in a push for higher wages and bonuses, the union said Tuesday.

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea asked for continued efforts by the Philippines on Tuesday to protect its people in the Southeast Asian country from crime, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Earlier, consular officials of the two met in Manila

(ATTN: UPDATES with arrival in first 8 paras; CHANGES headline) NEW YORK/SEOUL/BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A senior United Nations official arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for talks with North Korean officials amid heightened tensions over the communi

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Army will create a combat unit of weaponized drones next year to help counter North Korea's threats, an official said Tuesday. The Army calls the envisioned defense asset a "dronebot," a combination of the wo

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Senior diplomats of South Korea and France agreed on Tuesday to intensify coordination against North Korea's nuclear threats in order to resolve the current stalemate through peaceful methods, the foreign ministry here said Tu

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Paris Baguette, a leading bakery franchise of South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group, is expected to face up to tens of billions of won in fines for failing to follow the government's order to directly hire bakers at i

(ATTN: UPDATES with National Assembly to resume plenary session later in the day) SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly was to resume a plenary session Tuesday night to vote on next year's government budget amid unclear prospects of its pass

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean envoy on human rights has slammed the international sanctions on Pyongyang for hampering the North's efforts to protect those with disabilities, the country's state media said Tuesday. Ri Hung-sik, an ambass

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- IBM Inc.'s artificial intelligence-based Watson for Oncology was concordant with more than 50 percent of doctors' recommendations, a South Korean medical center said Tuesday. Watson for Oncology is designed to assist docto

By Choi Kyong-ae SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will conduct another feasibility study on the construction project for a second airport on Jeju Island next year as a result of local residents taking issue with the site selection process, the tr

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A new fantasy drama about a tangled web of romantic relations that span three millennia is set to debut on KBS 2TV on Wednesday. "Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me" tells about an invisible force that i

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rose Tuesday on the back of net purchases by local institutional investors. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Ind

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SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Two former heads of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) were indicted Tuesday for illegally offering 1.4 billion won (US$1.3 million) in agency funds to ousted President Park Geun-hye. The Seoul Central District Prosec

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rose Tuesday on the back of net purchases by local institutional investors. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) moved up 8.45 points, or

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for efforts to expand his country's cooperation with Pacific island countries Tuesday to jointly tackle climate change and other various global issues. He had a brief meeting with

HADONG, South Korea, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A plan to open an international branch of Scotland's University of Aberdeen in South Korea is highly likely to fall through, as the university has been reluctant to proceed with the project, local officials said

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By Kim Han-joo SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Mastering the human language remains a challenge for computers, but artificial intelligence (AI) technology is forecast to make it possible for people to converse with machines in five years, Google Inc. said T

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(ATTN: ADDS foreign ministry's response in 12th para) NEW YORK/SEOUL/BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A senior United Nations official embarked on a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang's recent long-range missile test

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- People in their 30s are most interested in instant meals, a local survey showed Tuesday. About 38.3 percent of those who searched for home meal replacement products online between July last year and June this year were tho

(ATTN: RECASTS dateline, headline, lead; ADDS more details in paras 2,7) NEW YORK/SEOUL/BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A senior United Nations official embarked on a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang's recent lon

INCHEON, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Reigning baseball league MVP Yang Hyeon-jong was voted by his peers as the top player of the season Tuesday. Yang, voted the regular season MVP in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) last month, earned the Player of th