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SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Moon Jae-in, a South Korean human rights lawyer and a top aide to a former leader who was an advocate of a policy of engagement with North Korea, won the liberal Democratic Party primary on Monday (April 3), establishing him as the clear frontrunner for president. Moon has been leading in opinion polls among candidates for the May 9 presidential election to succeed Park Geun-hye, who was dismissed on March […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s Lotte Group will continue to invest in its China business despite diplomatic tensions over the deployment of a United States missile defense system, a Lotte’s top executive, Hwang Kag-gyu, said on Monday (April 3), denying rumors it wants to scale back its China operations. Chinese authorities last month closed dozens of Lotte retail stores following inspections, ramping up pressure on South Korea’s fifth-largest family-run conglomerate after it agreed to provide […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States held a joint naval exercise Monday aimed at countering missile threats from North Korean submarines, Seoul’s defense ministry said, amid mounting concerns over the hermit state’s weapons program. Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them last year. The three-day […]
by Hwang SUNGHEE Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s ousted president Park Geun-Hye was arrested early Friday over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down. The Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to arrest Park on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercion, and leaking government secrets, after a marathon court hearing the previous day. “It is justifiable and necessary to arrest (Park) as key charges were justified […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Salvage workers who raised South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry may have found the remains of a missing victim of the disaster, the maritime ministry said. The ministry said in a statement it would hold a briefing later Tuesday on “finding human remains suspected to be one of the missing victims.”
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung announced Monday it would sell some Note 7 smartphones that were recalled for safety reasons as refurbished devices, in an effort to manage its stockpile in an “environmentally friendly” manner. The South Korean giant, the world’s largest smartphone maker, said it would sell Note 7s as “refurbished phones or rental phones,” after consultations with regulators in various markets. Samsung recalled an estimated four million of the flagship smartphones over concerns […]
Huddled in makeshift shipping container homes on a South Korean waterfront, the relatives of the missing from the Sewol ferry disaster have endured a harrowing wait to recover their dead children. (Video courtesy AFPTV)
Salvage operators raise part of South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry, Yonhap news agency reports, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye. (Video courtesy AFPTV)
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France Presse JINDO, South Korea (AFP) –South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry was sailed away from its watery grave Friday, beginning its final journey nearly three years after it went down with the loss of more than 300 lives. A flotilla of powerful tugs towed the wreck, lying on its side on a platform between two giant salvage barges, towards a semi-submersible that will finally bring it into port. The […]
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France Presse Salvage operators were preparing to move South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry on to another vessel to transfer it to port Friday, nearly three years after it went down with the loss of more than 300 lives. The top of the wreck had been raised to 13 metres above sea-level by late morning, the maritime ministry said in a statement, just high enough to fit it onto a semi-submersible standing […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South’s defence ministry said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched four rockets in what it called a drill for an attack on US bases in Japan. “South Korea and the United States are aware of the North Korean missile launch,” said a spokesman for Seoul’s defence ministry, adding they “suspect it was a failure”. The ministry did not identify the type of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The row between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of a United States missile defense system has seen China overtake even former colonizer Japan in the ranking of South Koreans’ least favored countries, a survey shows. Japan has consistently been the Southerners’ most disliked country after North Korea, mainly due to disputes over Tokyo’s wartime atrocities including the use of up to 200,000 Korean women as sexual slaves for Japanese […]
