The daily visitor turnout for the 2012 Yeosu Expo hit a new record Saturday helped by the start of the vacation season and improvement in management of the exposition that will terminate in two weeks.As many as 155,304 people visited the Yeosu Expo venue on the country's southern coast for the first Paris-based Bureau of International Exhibitions-approved event hosted by South Korea since the 199

(AFP)Japan took the silver medal in the men‘s artistic gymnastics team final on Monday after a judges’ inquiry that dropped hosts Great Britain from second to third and denied Ukraine a medal.A fall from superstar Kohei Uchimura on the pommel horse initially saw Japan finish fourth, but the country appealed against his score of 13.466 points. The score was amended to 14.166 after the judges accept

London -- Park Tae-hwan grabbed the silver medal in the men's 200-meter freestyle at the London Olympics Monday.Park came in second at 1 minute and 44.93 seconds, behind Yannick Agnel of France at 1:43.14. Park shared second place with China's Sun Yang, the 400ｍ freestyle champion from Sunday. Park Tae-hwan holds his silver medal in the men's 200-meter freestyle at the London 2012 Olympic Games Mo

 Shin A-lam waits for an appeal to an officials decision after a women's individual epee fencing semifinals match against Germany's Britta Heidemann at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, in London. (AP-Yonhap News)　　Fencer Shin A-lam became Korea’s latest victim of questionable rulings on Tuesday, after one that cost her the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.A clock bungle during the women’s i

Japanese judo fans can breathe a sigh of relief: after three days of competition, the country that invented the sport has finally won a gold medal at the London Olympics.Fighting in the women's 57-kilogram division, Kaori Matsumoto defeated Romanian Caprioriu in the final, using footwork to gain an advantage and eventually throw the Romanian for the win.The 57K bronze medals were won by American M

A nuclear reactor at South Korea's Younggwang Nuclear Power Plant automatically shut down Monday after its reactor protection system gave warning signals, plant operators said.The Reactor-6 at the Younggwang plant, located some 330 kilometers southwest of Seoul, was shut down at 2:57 p.m., according to an official from the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd."An investigation is current

The approval rating of software entrepreneur-turned-professor Ahn Cheol-soo climbed five percentage points last week to match those of presidential frontrunner Park Geun-hye, a poll showed Monday.Ahn has not officially declared a bid for the presidency, but is widely regarded as a serious opposition contender against Park from the ruling Saenuri Party in December's presidential election.That possi

The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hoax online editorial posted under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.The editorial, titled "WikiLeaks, a Post Postscript," was purportedly published over the weekend by the Times and in every way appears to be the real thing from Keller, who until last September was the paper's exe

People who have been bitten by a tick, may develop an allergy to red meat, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Susan Wolver and Dr. Diane Sun of Virginia Commonwealth University said delayed anaphylaxis -- a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction -- to meat is a new syndrome identified initially in the southeastern United States. Patients may wake up in the middle of the night, with hives or anaphylaxis

   Four people have been pricked by needles on New York City beaches in the past three weeks, police say.Most recently, an on-duty lifeguard stepped on a needle at Rockaway Beach in Queens Tuesday, WNBC-TV, New York, reported.All the other incidents happened at Staten Island beaches. A 63-year-old woman stepped on a hypodermic needle on Cedar Grove Beach on July 16. On July 14, a 37-year-old man p

An embattled nominee to South Korea's top court has withdrawn his nomination amid mounting pressure over his alleged ethical lapses, defusing a looming political standoff between the rival parties.Kim Byung-hwa, one of four Supreme Court justice nominees, said in a statement late Thursday that he was stepping aside because a delay in forming a new bench would cause a problem for the country.Kim ha

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), arrives to attend a global business summit at Lancaster House in London, U.K., on Thursday, July 26, 2012 (Bloomberg)European Central Bank President Mario Draghi promised Thursday to do whatever it takes to save the European single currency and raised expectations that he could step in to lower the high borrowing costs that are crippling

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of computer memory chips and smartphones, said Friday its second-quarter earnings jumped 48 percent from a year earlier, powered by strong sales of smartphones.Net profit reached a record 5.2 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) in the April-June period, compared with a net income of 3.5 trillion a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.Sa

 Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon parked on the edge of space Wednesday, spent 5 minutes in free fall, then parachuted to earth.The stunt in Roswell, N.M., five years in planning and sponsored by Red Bull energy drinks, involved getting a 210-foot tall balloon to an altitude of 90,000 feet, or 17.04 miles, a death-defying dive and a 7- to 10-minute glide back to earth by

LG Display Co., the world's No. 2 maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, said Thursday it stayed in the red for the fourth straight quarter as a one-off payment for a price-rigging settlement outweighed recovering profitability.Net loss came to 112.3 billion won ($98 million) in the April-June period, shifting to negative territory from the previous year, the company said in a regulatory f

The newly-introduced North Korean first lady has presumably visited South Korea and previously participated in several inter-Korean exchange programs, an analysis of media reports showed Thursday.North Korea disclosed young leader Kim Jong-un's marital status for the first time on Wednesday by confirming that the woman accompanying him at recent public events is his wife, Ri Sol-ju, without elabor

Ssangyong Motor Co., the smallest automaker in South Korea, said Thursday that its net loss narrowed in the second quarter from a year earlier mainly due to decreased costs.Net loss came to 20.9 billion won ($18.23 million) in the April-June period, compared with a loss of 34.9 billion won a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.Sales fell 2.3 percent on-year to 712 trillion won. T

North Korea ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by confirming that the mystery woman beside young leader Kim Jong Un at recent public events is indeed his wife, “comrade Ri Sol Ju.” The news was buried in a state TV report about Kim's tour of a new amusement park, delivered casually by a newscaster who gave no details about Ri, including how long she and Kim have been married. This photo released

SK Hynix Inc., the world's No. 2 memory chip maker, said Thursday it logged a net loss for the fourth straight quarter as weak cheap prices and currency losses ate into its profit.Net loss reached 53.3 billion won ($46.4 million) in the April-June period, a sharp turnaround from a 473 billion won profit a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.Sales slipped 4.6 percent on-year to 2.

The quarterly growth of the South Korean economy more than halved in the second quarter from three months earlier as the persisting eurozone debt crisis eroded exports, the central bank said Thursday.Asia's fourth-largest economy grew 0.4 percent in the April-June period, slowing from a 0.9 percent on-quarter expansion tallied in the first quarter, according to an advance estimate by the Bank of K