Новости за 10.12.2017

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile payment system is moving to expand into the banking sector to offer more diverse services to users, the South Korean tech giant said Sunday. The company said that starting Thursday, the pa

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- GM Korea Co.'s Trax compact SUV is set to beat all other models locally produced this year in terms of exports, industry sources said Sunday. The shipments of the Trax SUV are expected to exceed 250,000 units for the whol

YONGIN, South Korea, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Police investigators will lead a multiagency probe into a crane collapse that claimed three lives at a construction site, official sources said Sunday. On Saturday, three workers were killed and four others

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won called on prospective business leaders to be innovative and responsible when they join companies during a recent meeting with a group of soon-to-be graduates, the conglomerate said Sunday.

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's household debt rose the second sharpest among 43 major economies checked in the first half of 2017, a report by the international organization of central banks said Sunday. According to the Bank for Internat

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- K-pop sensation BTS has claimed the top spot on Japan's Oricon single chart for the fourth straight day, according to Oricon's website Sunday. "Mic Drop/DNA/Crystal Snow," the band's eighth Japanese single, climbed to No.

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea maintains the second-largest coal subsidies in the world, as other countries move to cut state support for such energy programs, a report by an autonomous intergovernmental organization said Sunday. The latest

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Sunday. Temperature (C) Condition Possibility High/Low of Rain (

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- The strengthening won will emerge as a major threat to South Korean carmakers next year as they struggle to stay ahead of the competition, a local think tank said Sunday. Given that carmakers in South Korea export 67 per

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Investors have borrowed a record amount of loans to buy local stocks, although the country's stock market recently suffered a correction, market data showed Sunday. The amount of money borrowed to buy stocks, so-called ma

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has set up an export incubator office in Bangkok to help local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make headway in the key Southeast Asian market, trade promotion agencies here said Sunday. According to

By Koh Byung-joon SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- The chief of central America's regional cooperation body has called for stepped-up global efforts to end North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which he said threaten not just the Korean Peninsula but

JINCHEON, South Korea, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- In an effort to boost its competitiveness in its Winter Olympic hockey debut in 2018, South Korea has fast-tracked a few Canadian-born players to Korean citizenship. Michael Swift, a skilled forward hailing fr

SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea claimed itself to be a bastion of human rights in a white paper released Saturday, defying international criticism of its long-standing abuses. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seou

SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will face defending champions Japan at the top Asian women's football tournament next year. South Korea ended up in Group B of the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup along with Japan, Aus