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Apr 25, 2018 Soccer

S. Korean football chief hoping inter-Korean summit can open door for more football exchanges

South Korean football chief Chung Mong-gyu said Wednesday he hopes the upcoming inter-Korean summit can open door to greater football exchange with North Koreans. Chung, who leads the Korea Football Association, said he wants see inter-Korean football exchange growing after the South-North summit, which will take place on Friday on the south side of the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom. "We've yet to talk details in (football exchanges) with North Koreans," Chung told reporters at a speci

Nat'l football coach says S. Korea's World Cup preparations are on track

outh Korea football coach Shin Tae-yong said Wednesday his team's preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup are on track.South Korea will meet Germany, Sweden and Mexico in Group F at the World Cup in Russia, which is only about 50 days away. Shin admitted that they're the underdogs but will not give up easily."Frankly, none of the teams are easy for us," Shin told reporters at an event at the Russian Embassy in Seoul. "But if we prepare hard, we can play a good game. We're currently trying to fi

Apr 25, 2018
Soccer
Police try to raid broadcaster after reporter booked for stealing tablet computer

Police tried to raid broadcaster TV Chosun on Wednesday after one of its reporters was booked for stealing a tablet computer and a mobile phone from a publishing firm run by a blogger at the center of an opinion-rigging probe. The 48-year-old blogger, surnamed Kim but better known by his nickname "Druking", has been charged along with two other suspects for masterminding the massive illegal rigging of Internet comments. Police officials are blocked by reporters of TV Chosun at the broadcaster's

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Activist Elliott demands Hyundai Motor encourage cumulative voting

U.S. activist fund Elliott Management has demanded Hyundai Motor Co. and its two affiliates remove a clause that makes it possible for the three firms to avoid a cumulative voting system to pick board members, an industry source said Wednesday. Elliott Management, which revealed earlier this month that it holds more than US$1 billion worth of stocks in the three key units of Hyundai Motor Group, has called for the South Korean auto conglomerate to adopt a holding company structure and do more fo

Apr 25, 2018
Business
A unified Korea? Leaders bring contrasting visions to summit

Unification is an idea that moves most Koreans, North and South, on an emotional level. For some, especially young people in the South, it may not be a burning issue. Details like the costs, the risks and what specifically both sides stand to gain are rarely given much thought by anyone who isn't an academic, politician or activist. But when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet on Friday, the prospect of unification, even if only in the abstract, will loom

Apr 25, 2018
North Korea
‘Trump should try to manage NK nuke, not resolve it’

If US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un indeed hunker down for a historic summit on denuclearizing the North in May or June, the American commander in chief should lower his expectations and take a rational approach of “managing” the issue rather than try to resolve it at once, argued renowned policy wonk Michael Green. “I think Trump’s big mistake was that he said the problem can be resolved. I don’t think it can be resolved either through diplomacy or war,” Green said

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North Korea
[Graphic News] Major statistics concerning inter-Korean talks at Panmunjeom

Apr 25, 2018
North Korea
Koreans respond to Toronto van attack

　South Korean-born musician Sarah Yunji Moon was at home playing her flute in Saskatoon, Canada, when she first heard the tragic news on Monday -- that at least 10 died after a man drove a van into pedestrians near Yonge and Finch area in Toronto, a district widely considered as a mini Koreatown. 　The principal flutist at the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra used to live there during her high school years, as well as from 2014 to early this year. The area is also where her mother and brother still r

Apr 25, 2018
International
[Photo News] Graffiti on fashion

Fashion laden with a youthful culture of graffiti was showcased at the second Seoul 365 Fashion Show on Wednesday at Seoullo 7017, Jung-gu. The Seoul 365 Fashion Show links Korean fashion with Seoul City’s iconic locations where foot traffic can give more exposure to the fashion show. This show’s dominating concept was graffiti, a form of art that often represents youth culture and spirit. Graffiti-inspired apparels by designer man.G were put up on stage accompanied on the sides by colorful draw

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Fashion
Ex-prosecutor in 'Me Too' case indicted without detention

Prosecutors said Wednesday they have indicted a former senior prosecutor without physical detention for unfairly disadvantaging his female junior colleague for raising sexual misconduct allegations against him.The special prosecution team in charge of the case said it charged Ahn Tae-geun with abuse of power.He has been under investigation since early this year after Seo Ji-hyeon, a district attorney, made a revelation via a television interview that Ahn groped her during a funeral dinner in 201

Apr 25, 2018
Social affairs
Samsung's work environment holds no clues to workers' illnesses: investigation team

An independent investigation committee tasked with checking the work environment at Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday that it has found no clear evidence to link the chips and display lines with the illnesses suffered by some workers, although acknowledging there should be continuous studies. After carrying out a probe, the team of experts said it found no critically hazardous substances at Samsung's production facilities. "It is our goal to prevent work-related diseases in the future by re

Apr 25, 2018
Industry
[Newsmaker] Vietnam massacre victims demand Korean government’s apology

Two Vietnamese women sat nervously in a mock trial on Sunday as they awaited the ruling on their case against South Korea over massacres that took place during the Vietnam War.“Defendant South Korea should pay reparations accordingly to the State Compensation Act and officially recognize its liability (in the massacre) to regain the dignity and honor of the plaintiffs,” Kim Young-ran, former Supreme Court Justice, delivered the ruling as the chief judge of the mock trial.As Kim read out the verd

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Foreign Policy
[Kim Myong-sik] Internet leviathan serves as hotbed for political virus

Living in the 21st century we owe a lot to the geniuses and entrepreneurs who have played a part in the development of the computer technology and mobile communications. Everyone breathing in the contemporary world saves a lot of time, energy and money in obtaining information and data that he or she needs for everyday life -- far more than actually needed.　Our family is well familiar with the time-worn story of the young father spending agonizing weeks waiting for a letter from his wife after w

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Columnists
[The Chicago Tribune] Trump is taking smart, calculated risk with North Korea talks

In July 1971, President Richard Nixon jolted the international status quo -- and set diplomatic nerves worldwide fluttering -- by announcing he would visit China. “Never in history, to our knowledge, have diplomatic relations progressed so fast from the Ping-Pong table to the Presidency,” this page breathlessly observed.　Nixon’s bold overture reshaped the modern world and has paid vast dividends to Washington, to Beijing and to the general stability of global geopolitics.　Now another potentially

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Columnists
[Andrew Wolman] Human rights and North Korea talks

Human rights activists can be forgiven if they show less than complete enthusiasm for the upcoming summit meetings between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his South Korean and American counterparts. It is not just the distinct possibility of failure that they fear, although there is that. There is also the prospect that even if the talks succeed in lowering peninsular tensions or -- in a best-case scenario -- bringing a peace treaty and denuclearization, they will do so at the cost of legiti

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