Новости за 31.03.2018

(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; ADDS more details throughout) SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Three South Korean sailors are presumed to have been kidnapped in seas off Ghana, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday, with a South Korean navy ship in charge

(ATTN: ADDS more details throughout) SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Three South Koreans are presumed to have been kidnapped in seas off Ghana, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday, with a South Korean navy ship in charge of anti-piracy operations in wa

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Three South Koreans are presumed to have been kidnapped in seas off Ghana, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday. According to the ministry, a fishing boat with crew, including the three South Koreans, aboard is believe

(ATTN: ADDS more details in last 2 paras, photo) GWANGJU, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers of Kumho Tire Co. will vote on the planned sale of a majority stake in the tiremaker to China's Qingdao Doublestar Co. after a dramatic agreement with man

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(ATTN: CHANGES headline, attribution, lead, 2nd para; ADDS more details in para 3 from KCNA report) SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with the chief of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Pyongyang's news outle

(ATTN: UPDATES in paras 1-3 with arrival; CHANGES headline; EXPANDS dateline) SEOUL/PYONGYANG, March 31 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) -- The majority of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo athletes scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead

ASAN, South Korea, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Police sought an arrest warrant Saturday for the driver of a freight truck that slammed into a fire truck and killed three female firefighters a day earlier. The rescue workers, two of them newly recruited tr

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Loans extended by the nation's five major banks to individuals for home rentals jumped 38.5 percent on-year in February amid the government's tightening of mortgages for new homes, according to industry data Saturday. O

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The government has finished consultations with the United States to make sure that a South Korean chartered flight's trip to North Korea does not run afoul of Washington's sanctions on the communist nation, a foreign ministr

April 1 1895 -- Yu Kil-jun, a government official of the Joseon Dynasty, publishes an essay titled "Seo-yoo-gyeon-mun" (A Traveler's Journal on the West), in which he gave his impressions of the United States and Europe. 1920 -- The Don

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition Liberty Korea Party is likely to nominate former Gyeonggi Province Gov. Kim Moon-soo for Seoul mayor in June's local elections, a key party source said Saturday. The Seoul mayoral race is the most clo

(ATTN: UPDATES with departure of group, speeches from cast members in paras 10-12; ADDS photos) SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The majority of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo players scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead of a histor

GWANGJU, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers of Kumho Tire Co. will vote on the planned sale of a majority stake in the tiremaker to China's Qingdao Doublestar Co. after a dramatic agreement with management, according to union officials Saturday.

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- Officials of South and North Korea are considering holding another round of high-level talks on April 18 to work out details of a summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. In the first hig

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks are expected to trade within a limited range next week as investors are set to take a wait-and-see stance on the earnings reports of major listed firms, analysts said Saturday. The benchmark Korea Com

(ATTN: UPDATES with statement from culture minister in paras 7-9, more details in paras 12-13) SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The majority of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo performers scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead of a hist

Dangerous divergences A big chess game is being played over the fate of the Korean Peninsula. A surprise meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was held earlier this week ahead of an inter-Korean summit in

Currency deal row The just concluded renegotiation of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement has sparked controversy over a U.S. move to link a foreign exchange issue to the KORUS FTA. The controversy arose Wednesday when a White House official said

Perennial fine dust Although thick fine dust blanketed most of the country for nearly a week, government measures to reduce it have not been so effective. Fortunately, it is forecast to recede this weekend, but it is predicted to come over the Kor

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on March 31. Korean-language dailies -- Last-minute agreement on sale of Kumho Tire (Kyunghyang Shinmun) -- Kumho Tire union agrees on sale to Doubles

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Saturday. Temperature (C) Condition Possibility High/Low of Rain

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang Friday, the AP reported. In an interview in the North Korean capital, Bach said he and Kim talked for more than an h

(ATTN: UPDATES with details) NEW YORK, March 30 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations Security Council on Friday blacklisted 27 ships, 21 companies and a businessman for helping North Korea evade sanctions, according to news reports. The council's North

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- The majority of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo performers scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead of a historic inter-Korean summit will head to North Korea on Saturday. The 120-member group led by C