Новости за 22.08.2018

BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- China's foreign ministry on Wednesday took an unusual step of disclosing a question by the media and the answer to it about President Xi Jinping's widely rumored visit to North Korea next month. The ministry made public

SEJONG, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's chief economic policymaker said Wednesday that the government will maintain key economic policies, such as the income-led growth strategy, going forward although there could be some flexibility in how those pol

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- The government decided to extend a scheme to write off debts of troubled borrowers until the end of February next year as fewer than expected people applied for the scheme, the financial regulator said Wednesday. The sch

SEONGNAM, South Korea, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- An actress who claims to have had an extramarital affair with Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung appeared at a police station on Wednesday but then suddenly refused to comply with questioning and walked out.

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SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- S-Oil Corp., South Korea's third-largest refiner, said Wednesday that it plans to invest more than 5 trillion won (US$4.4 billion) by 2023 to build a mixed-feed cracker and olefin downstream facilities. The company said i

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- With financial sector workers planning to launch a general strike next month, chiefs of South Korea's major lenders have been busy persuading the union to change their mind, sources in Seoul said Wednesday. Kim Tae-young,

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- Special prosecutors probing a high-profile political scandal involving an influential blogger and a prominent governor said Wednesday it will not seek to extend their designated term and plans to wrap up the investigation thi

PALEMBANG, Indonesia, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Sports Minister Do Jong-whan said Wednesday that he has proposed joint teams with North Korea at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Do was visiting Jakabaring Sports City in Palembang, a co-host c

(ATTN: ADDS info in last 2 paras; RECASTS lead) By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Vincent Brooks called on North Korea on Wednesday to take "earnest and serious" steps toward denuclearization, citing d

By Koh Byung-joon MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea, Aug. 22 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) -- Kim Byeong-oh, an 88-year-old man, looked into the air without saying a word for a while. Soon tears ran down his cheeks as he was saddened by the fact that it was the

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- Typhoon Soulik nearing South Korea is set to sweep through the peninsula later this week, the weather authorities said Wednesday. The typhoon was approaching the southeastern coast of Jeju Island, off the country's south

MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea, Aug. 22 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) -- Hundreds of South and North Koreans bid a tearful farewell following their first temporary reunions after decades of separation due to the 1950-53 Korean War. Eighty-nine elderly Sou

By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Vincent Brooks called on North Korea on Wednesday to take "earnest and serious" steps toward denuclearization, citing distrust and misconception as major hurdles to ong

SEJONG, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Koreans who moved to different parts of the country grew in July as more people were forced to change their residences due to rising housing prices, government data showed Wednesday. The number of peo

SEJONG, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- The number of newborns in South Korea fell again in June, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronically-low birthrate that has plagued Asia's fourth-largest economy for more than a decade. About

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday dismissed claims that an inter-Korean liaison office may violate U.N. sanctions against North Korea, citing the dozens of diplomatic missions in the North Korean ca