Новости за 02.08.2018

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SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Hankook Tire Manufacturing Co., South Korea's biggest tiremaker, said Thursday its second-quarter net profit edged up 0.4 percent from the previous year. Net profit came to 180.6 billion won, compared to 179 billion won ta

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(ATTN: ADDS more details in last 4 paras) SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- State-led companies plan to spend over 30 trillion won (US$27 billion) in key leading sectors, such as autonomous driving, by 2022, thus creating an environment for private companies

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's media on Thursday renewed its demand for South Korea to take substantive action to improve relations, blaming the current procrastination on the Seoul government sticking to the global sanctions regime. The R

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- The number of cases in which rescuers drove ambulances to take people hit by a heat wave across South Korea to hospitals tripled from a year earlier to 1,066 in July, government data showed Thursday. The data from the Natio

(ATTN: ADDS coach's comments, more details at bottom) JINCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Less than a month after they got together for friendly games, women's basketball players from South and North Korea have been reunited here for the Asian G

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- The music video of sensational K-pop rapper and singer Psy's "Gangnam Style" has ranked 12th on Billboard's list of the 100 greatest music videos of the 21st century. The critics-selected list, carried by Billboard on July

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- A startup fund jointly set up by Mirae Asset Financial Group and Naver invested US$150 million in Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab, the companies said Thursday. The investment is a part of $2 billion in funding rais

JINCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Less than a month after they got together for friendly games, women's basketball players from South and North Korea have been reunited here for the Asian Games. There will be nine South Koreans and three No

By Lee Chi-dong SINGAPORE, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korean officials remained tight-lipped Thursday in front of media outlets in Singapore, as they prepared to participate in a regional forum. Pyongyang will send its Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho to

(ATTN: RECASTS dateline; ADDS more info in paras 10-12) WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- The remains of presumed U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War returned home on Wednesday to a solemn ceremony in Hawaii, marking the beginning of a l

By Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korean spies have often appeared in South Korean films. But none have featured South Korean spies who have gone to the North. Director Yoon Jong-bin's latest feature "The Spy Gone North" is a rare mov

(ATTN: UPDATES with details throughout; CHANGES photo) JINCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Sports Minister Do Jong-whan visited South Korean athletes preparing for the Asian Games at the national training venue Thursday. Do met with the athl

Aug. 3 1983 - Samsung Electronics Co. declares that it is the world's third firm to develop 64K dynamic random access memory (DRAM) after companies in the United States and Japan. 2005 - A Seoul National University research team, led by H

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean triathletes said Thursday they'll try to bring home the first Asian Games gold medal from Indonesia this year. The triathlon team to compete at the Aug. 18-Sept. 2 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indones

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, paras 3-4; ADDS more background in paras 5-6) SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors raided the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday as part of a probe into a massive power abuse scandal involving a former top court chief a

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Seo In-young, a former member of the now-disbanded girl group Jewelry, had been active as a solo singer and a versatile entertainer playing key roles in many TV shows before a video clip showing her using foul language put a b

ULSAN, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first floating offshore wind turbine will enter test operations off the coast of the southeastern city of Ulsan in the first half of next year, the city government said Thursday. The 16 billion won (around US$

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors raided the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday as part of a probe into a massive power abuse scandal involving a former top court chief and the previous Park Geun-hye government. Prosecutors are investigat

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is in close consultation with the United Nations to get sanctions temporarily exempted for the operation of an inter-Korean liaison office in the North, a unification ministry official said Thursday. "Consultat

SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state defense procurement agency on Thursday unveiled a series of reform measures, including allowing finalized projects to be readjusted in light of a shift in security conditions on the peninsula. The Defen

By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- The Army used to be the indisputably dominant branch in South Korea's military for decades, with its retirees occupying key policymaking posts and its generals taking the helm of joint forces and defense intel

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- The remains of presumed U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War returned home on Wednesday to a solemn ceremony in Hawaii, marking the beginning of a long process to identify thousands of missing troops. U.S. V