Новости за 31.05.2018

By Joo Kyung-don JEONJU, South Korea, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) national football team head coach Robert Prosinecki said Thursday his side will put their best efforts forward in an upcoming friendly match against South Korea des

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) – The first labor union has been formed at Samsung Electronics Co., according to a company official and industry sources on Thursday, as prosecutors widen a probe into the company's alleged sabotage of efforts to form a labor uni

By Joo Kyung-don JEONJU, South Korea, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean midfielder Lee Jae-sung said Thursday that he feels proud of two national team rookies' performance ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Lee is one of the 26 players on South Kore

By Joo Kyung-don JEONJU, South Korea, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's national football team head coach Shin Tae-yong said Thursday his side will test a back three system in the upcoming friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). South Korea

(ATTN: ADDS info) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met the top Russian diplomat in Pyongyang on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in North Korea on the day amid a flurry o

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- POSCO DAEWOO Corp., the trading-to-energy development unit of steelmaker POSCO, said Thursday it will invest 511.7 billion won (US$475 million) in a joint gas field development project in Myanmar. POSCO DAEWOO will head t

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- HYUKOH, one of the hottest indie rock bands in South Korea, released a new record on Thursday featuring themes that the quartet has never drawn on before: love and happiness. The new EP, "24: How to find true love and happ

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Kim Meong-su apologized to the nation Thursday over allegations that the top court under his predecessor tried to use politically sensitive trials as bargaining chips in its dealing with the preside

(ATTN: ADDS updated info) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met the top Russian diplomat in Pyongyang on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in North Korea on the day amid a

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. ---------------- (LEAD) Moon voices need to support inter-Korean cooperation following denuclearization SEOUL -- President Moon Jae-in on Thursd

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Members of the most successful South Korean World Cup team had a straightforward message on Thursday for the current players bound for this year's big tournament: play with confidence. "Team 2002," made up of players and c

BEIJING, May 31 (Yonhap) -- China on Thursday signaled its intention to actively engage in the process of formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War, as South Korea appears to be pushing for the declaration through a three-way summit with the United States

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- "Are you human too?" is a paradoxical question because it is raised by a robot with artificial intelligence (AI) -- the protagonist of an upcoming high-budget science fiction series on KBS 2TV. The new drama

By Woo Jae-yeon SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- "Are you human too?" is a paradoxical question because it is raised by a robot with artificial intelligence (AI) -- the protagonist of an upcoming high-budget science fiction series on KBS 2TV. The new dra

TOKYO, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Thursday that he wishes for a "great success" from the North Korea-United States summit slated for June 12 in Singapore. Fukuda also said peace is the biggest goal for North

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details, additional remarks in paras 7-8, 20) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Thursday called for measures to support economic cooperation with North Korea, stressing a need to readjust government spending t

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Park In-bee, the world No. 1 in women's golf, was named South Korea's favorite golfer in a poll released on Thursday. Gallup Korea said Park, an LPGA Hall of Famer, won 29 percent of support in its poll of 1,003 adults.

(ATTN: ADDS photo, bond yields at bottom; UPDATES with minor edits) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rebounded from the previous session's losses on Thursday as worries over Italy's possible eurozone exit eased, analysts said. The Korean

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SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court in Seoul ordered the state Thursday to pay 800 million won (US$743,355) in compensation to a former student activist who served a prison term on trumped up charges of abetting an activist friend's suicide an

BUSAN, May 31 (Yonhap) -- A statue symbolizing Korean victims of forced labor under Japan's colonial rule was forcibly removed Thursday from a pedestrian road near the Japanese Consulate in the southern city of Busan amid a strong clash between police

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rebounded from the previous session's losses on Thursday as worries over Italy's possible eurozone exit eased, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite S

SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Thursday called for measures to support economic cooperation with North Korea, stressing a need to readjust government spending to support cross-border exchanges in case Pyongyang abandons its nuclear

(ATTN: ADDS impact on Gunsan economy in paras 9-11) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- General Motors Co., the parent company of GM Korea Co., on Thursday shut down one of its plants in South Korea as it moves to restructure its operations at home and abroad.

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