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Samsung Securities cancels bid for promissory notes business

Samsung Securities Co. said Friday it voluntarily withdrew its application for the right to issue promissory notes following state penalties over its recent fat-finger chaos. The local brokerage fir...

Aug 17, 2018
Industry
South Korea hit by longest, most severe heat wave in 2018

South Korea was gripped by the longest, most severe heat wave in its recorded history this year, breaking the record set in 1994, the state weather agency said Friday. Between June 1 and Aug. 16, th...

Aug 17, 2018
Social affairs
Korea, US agree to cooperate on nuclear reactor exports

Representatives of South Korea and the United States agreed to seek nuclear reactor exports at high level bilateral talks in Washington on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. At the second m...

Aug 17, 2018
Industry
National Folk Museum of Korea to bring ‘mobile museums’ to Asian Games

The National Folk Museum of Korea will operate mobile museums at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang 2018, which run from Aug. 18 through Sept. 2. Also called “Korean culture boxes,“ mobile museu...

Aug 17, 2018
Culture
Singer-artist Cho Young-nam found not guilty of painting fraud in appeals trial

A Seoul appeals court cleared singer-artist Cho Young-nam of fraud charges Friday, citing a lack of evidence to prove his actions were illegal. A lower court had sentenced Cho to 10 months in prison...

Aug 17, 2018
Social affairs
Governor awaits decision on arrest warrant in opinion-rigging scandal

The court is expected to deliver its decision on issuing an arrest warrant for South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo later on Friday or early Saturday in connection with an online opinion-rig...

Aug 17, 2018
Social affairs
Asiana to cut back on flights to prevent delays

South Korean airliner Asiana Airlines said Friday that it would reduce the number of flights destined for certain European and US cities beginning in October, in response to instructions from the Tra...

Aug 17, 2018
Industry
Number of new jobs lowest in 8 years

The number of new jobs in July was the lowest in eight years, despite job creation being a priority of the Moon Jae-in administration, data showed Friday. (Yonhap) According to Statistics Korea, th...

Aug 17, 2018
Automode
Police investigate terror threat against presidential office on radical feminist site

Police said Friday that they were investigating a terrorist threat against the presidential office posted on Womad, a radical feminist community site. Around 1:40 p.m., a user claimed to have plante...

Aug 17, 2018
Social affairs
Kim Jong-un denounces international sanctions

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un conducted inspections of a massive tourism construction site on the country’s east coast, describing it as the epitome of standing up to international sanctions, the N...

Aug 17, 2018
North Korea
Korea, China to resume joint fishing patrol in Oct.

Korea and China will resume their joint patrols on illegal fishing activities in the Yellow Sea in October, two years after a deadly clash between Korean authorities and Chinese fishermen, Seoul's oc...

Aug 17, 2018
Foreign Policy
National pension's fund set to be depleted in 2057 under current system

South Korea's state pension fund is on course to be depleted in 2057 under the existing system, studies showed Friday, with the pension operator suggesting two major options to keep it running. Acco...

Aug 17, 2018
Social affairs
Top diplomats of S. Korea, Qatar discuss ways to expand bilateral ties

The top diplomats of South Korea and Qatar held talks in Seoul on Friday to strengthen cooperation over a range of bilateral and regional issues, including security on the Korean Peninsula. During t...

Aug 17, 2018
Politics
Unified Korean team suffers 1st loss in women's basketball

The unified Korea women's basketball team suffered its first loss at the Asian Games on Friday, falling to Chinese Taipei 87-85 in overtime. Korea rallied from a 71-65 deficit with 3:22 remaining in...

Aug 17, 2018
More sports
[Newsmaker] BMW blames Koreans’ driving for fires: report

Controversy escalated here on Friday over a BMW executive’s comments, apparently blaming South Koreans’ driving for the vehicles catching fire. In an interview with the Xinhua News Agency, BMW spoke...

Aug 17, 2018
Automode

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