Новости за 22.12.2017

INCHEON, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan have long been archrivals in sports, and the history isn't lost on Texas Rangers' Korean outfielder Choo Shin-soo. The Rangers' division rivals, Los Angeles Angels, acquired two-way Japanese star S

(ATTN: ADDS more details from 4th para) SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The prosecution said Friday it has formed a special team to investigate slush fund allegations involving former President Lee Myung-bak. The team in the Supreme Prosecutors' Offic

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Friday requested an arrest warrant for Cho Yoon-sun, a former culture minister and presidential aide, on charges of bribery and abuse of power, five months after she was released from detention with a suspended

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES with reports of outcome of Moon's trip to Jecheon in paras 2-5) SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Friday promised to get to the bottom of the tragic fire in the small southeastern city of Jecheo

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday. ----------------- Trump pledges support for safety of PyeongChang Olympics: Moon SEOUL -- U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to help ensure t

(ATTN: ADDS more details throughout) SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Friday sentenced Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin to 20 months in prison with a two-year suspension for embezzlement and breach of trust. In the ruling on the ow

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean retail giant Lotte avoided the worst-case scenario over its chairman's managerial irregularities as a Seoul court handed down a suspended jail term Friday. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Lotte Gro

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will issue its non-professional employment visa to 56,000 foreign workers next year, the same figure set for this year's quota, government officials said Friday. The government committee on foreign workforce p

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The number of Chinese tourists in South Korea declined 42.1 percent on-year in November, marking the ninth straight month of decrease following the diplomatic row between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. anti-m

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The prosecution said Friday it has formed a special team to investigate slush fund allegations involving former President Lee Myung-bak. The team in the Supreme Prosecutors' Office will look into the suspicions that DAS,

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The torch relay for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will resume on Saturday, after Friday's leg was canceled following a deadly fire in its scheduled stop. PyeongChang's organizing committee earlier scrapped its torc

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks on Friday rebounded from a sharp drop on the previous session as a bright fourth-quarter corporate earnings outlook encouraged investors to bet on risky assets, analysts

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Q CELLS, the solar power business unit of Hanwha Group, said Friday it will build a 1 gigawatt solar power plant in Turkey by 2018 to supply electricity to the country. In March, Hanwha Q CELLS won a deal from the

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Russia plans to lift its limits on South Korean airlines' flights to the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk that may help pave the way for more bilateral exchange, the transport ministry said Friday. Moscow's aviation

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SEJONG, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is pushing to frontload a "huge chunk of budget" in the first half of next year to create more jobs and boost Asia's fourth-largest economy, the finance ministry said Friday. Still, the Ministry of Strategy a

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Friday sentenced Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin to 20 months in prison with a two-year suspension for embezzlement and breach of trust. In the ruling on the owner family of the nation's fifth larges

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks on Friday rebounded from a sharp drop on the previous session as a bright fourth-quarter corporate earnings outlook encouraged investors to bet on risky assets, analysts said. The local currency rose again

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(ATTN: ADDS comparison of prices in para 12) By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The president of BlackBerry Mobile expressed confidence on Friday that his company can grab South Korean consumers with the BlackBerry KEYOne Black Edition, bu

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Friday's closing prices of KOSPI 200 stocks traded on the main Korea Stock Exchange. Daesang 27,450 DN 500 SKNetworks 6,590 UP 60 ORION Holdings 26,950 UP 500 KISWire

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Top envoys from South Korea and Japan on the North Korean nuclear issue on Friday discussed ways to further ramp up economic sanctions and how to get the country to come to dialogue, the foreign ministry here said. During

(ATTN: UPDATES with more info in paras 8-9; CHANGES photo) SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court's decision to exonerate the main opposition Liberty Korea Party's leader of bribery charges in a high-profile lobbyi

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday lambasted the recent U.S. security strategy report, threatening to make the country bitterly regret its belligerent policy toward Pyongyang. U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his government's fir