Новости за 14.09.2018

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South and North Korea will form a joint judo team for a mixed team event at the upcoming World Judo Championships, Seoul's judo governing body said Friday. Three male and four female judokas from North Korea will join S

CHANGWON, South Korea, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The 52nd edition of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship concluded in the southeastern city of Changwon on Friday, with host South Korea having set a medals record. The cl

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The state anti-corruption watchdog will look into allegations that national baseball team manager Sun Dong-yol violated the anti-graft law by picking underperforming players for his Asian Games team to give them military ser

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES with reports on outcome of working-level talks, changes throughout) SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in will fly directly to North Korea next week for his third bilateral summit with No

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The head of World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon, has offered to resign over a string of corruption scandals. Oh Hyun-deuk posted a statement on the Kukkiwon website on Thursday saying that he will step

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SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- Hankook Tire Manufacturing Co., the world's seventh-largest tiremaker by sales, said Friday that its Italian unit has signed a partnership agreement with popular Italian football club S.S.C. Napoli in the latest move to boos

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean government think tank on Friday called for "customized" development of North Korea's economy in the process of inter-Korean economic cooperation, saying information and communications technology (ICT) is suita

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom; CHANGES image) SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Friday led by gains in top cap Samsung Electronics and other tech shares, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar.

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military will keep monitoring China's installation of buoys in the two countries' overlapping exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the Yellow Sea, Seoul's defense ministry said Friday. The ministry made the r

Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP) 1-year TB 1.797 1.771 +2.6 3-year TB 1.960 1.921 +3.9 10-year TB 2.309 2.262 +4.7

(ATTN: CLARIFIES deliberation process) JEJU, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to give 23 Yemeni asylum seekers humanitarian stay permits in South Korea, although it rejected their applications f

(ATTN: CORRECTS details in 8th para) SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The number of people visiting Seoul hospitals that treat people with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has not fallen much, official data showed Friday. A 61-year-old man w

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Friday led by gains in top cap Samsung Electronics and other tech shares, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOS

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- A liberal South Korean civil organization said Friday that it will send a delegation to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly to ask for international support to declare an end to the Korean War and halt sanctions on

(ATTN: ADDS photo) SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea held a launching ceremony Friday for a 3,000-ton indigenous submarine, a new strategic weapons system designed to bolster underwater defense capabilities. The ceremony for the diesel-elect

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- All 21 people who came into close contact with a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient tested negative for the disease, health authorities said Friday. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC

By Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- Visually striking, imaginative and compelling, "The Great Battle" easily claims its status as one of the most impressive war epics to have come out of Korean cinema in a long time. Set in 645, the movie r

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang met with Indonesia's parliamentary leader Friday to discuss ways to expand cooperation between the two countries. Moon met with Oesman Sapta Odang, the speaker of the Regional Repr

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SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- The financial watchdog said Friday it plans to strengthen consulting programs for self-employed businesses and offer necessary funding to help them as they struggle with economic hardships. Under the envisioned plan, loc

(ATTN: ADDS more details, photo) SEOUL/KAESONG, Sept. 14 (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap) -- South and North Korea launched their joint liaison office on Friday, securing a platform for round-the-clock communication that is expected to help foster cross-bor

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