Новости за 06.04.2018

(ATTN: ADDS more details) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined 18 billion won (US$16.8 million) on Friday in a ruling on a massive corruption case that led to her removal from office e

(ATTN: UPDATES with reasons and details for profit gains; CHANGES headline) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- GS Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, said Friday that its first-quarter operating profit jumped to more than six times

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Kumho Tire Co., South Korea's second-biggest tiremaker by sales, said Friday that it has signed a deal with China's Qingdao Doublestar Co. to sell its controlling stake. "Kumho Tire and its creditors concluded a contract

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean retail giant Lotte said Friday it will launch a new affiliate for its cinema business in June, as it moves to maximize management effectiveness. Lotte Shopping Co.'s board members approved the plan to spin o

(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES with additional cancellations; ADDS photo) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Three baseball games were cancelled due to fine dust on Friday, the first time air quality issues have forced such moves in South Korea. T

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- A baseball game has been cancelled due to fine dust for the first time. The Korea Baseball Organzation (KBO) regular season game between the home team Doosan Bears and the NC Dinos at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul was called of

(ATTN: Changes photo) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Political parties were sharply divided on Friday in their reactions to a heavy jail sentence for former President Park Geun-hye. In a nationally televised trial, the Seoul Central District Court sen

By Woo Jae-yeon Gwangju, South Korea, April 6 (Yonhap) -- In the twilight of her life, Korean artist Bang Hai-ja, who works and lives in France, is seeing her career blossom. Her paintings about life, love and peace through light have been recently ch

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- A large number of South Koreans may have been affected by the latest personal information leak affecting U.S. social media operator Facebook Inc., the company said Friday. Facebook said 85,893 South Korean users may have

(ATTN: UPDATES with Paik's meeting with union leaders in paras 6,9) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government on Friday urged General Motors' Korean unit to resume negotiations with its labor union to normalize its business as an intensi

(ATTN: UPDATES with meeting with defense minister in last 3 paras) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- A senior member of the Parliament of the European Union pledged Friday the region's continued support for denuclearization and ultimately the reunification o

[https://youtu.be/WkmUlUxQ2Lo] SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- The girl group TWICE unveiled a teaser video for its new song, "What is Love?" featuring three members -- Jeongyeon, Momo and Sanaon -- on April 4. The group is set to release its fif

(ATTN: ADDS trade minister's visit to Bupyeong plant in paras 10-12) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., on Friday asked for a meeting with the carmaker's President Kaher Kazem f

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have instructed a ranking Pyongyang official to make his rare apology to South Korean reporters earlier this week for restricting their coverage of a concert by South Korean musicia

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- A senior member of the Parliament of the European Union pledged Friday the region's continued support for denuclearization and ultimately the reunification of the two Koreas in a meeting with a senior official here. "We h

(ATTN: CORRECTS figure in third para) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will seek to impose retaliatory tariffs on imported goods from the United States in response to its safeguard duties on Korean washers and solar products, the trade ministry

(ATTN: RECASTS lead para; ADDS regulator's reaction in paras 7-9) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Securities Co. said Friday it mistakenly paid its employees stock dividends, prompting the brokerage's share prices to fall and raising moral hazard

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Political parties were sharply divided on Friday in their reactions to a heavy jail sentence for former President Park Geun-hye. In a nationally televised trial, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Park to 24 years

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- GS Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, said Friday that its first-quarter operating profit surged 544 percent from a year earlier. Operating profit stood at 380.4 billion won (US$356 million) on

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will seek to impose retaliatory tariffs on imported goods from the United States in response to its safeguard duties on Korean washers and solar products, the trade ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Trade

(ATTN: ADDS more details) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined 18 billion won (US$16.8 million) on Friday in a massive corruption scandal that toppled her from power early last year.

JEJU, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean business leaders based across the globe gathered in their home country on Friday for an annual meeting meant to help create jobs for local youths and promote small firms' make inroads abroad, organizers said.

SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government on Friday urged General Motors' Korean unit to resume negotiations with its labor union to normalize its business as an intensifying labor dispute is complicating the automaker's turnaround plan.

SEJONG, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea spent over 50 trillion won (US$46.8 billion) of the state budget in the first two months of the year to help the economy maintain its recovery and create jobs, the finance ministry said Friday. Spending was 7

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks finished lower Friday as investor sentiment weakened after the U.S. President Donald Trump reignited fears over a trade war with China. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dol