South Korea swept up three taekwondo gold medals at the Asian Games on Wednesday, showcasing its dominance in the traditional Korean martial art.Kim So-hui triumphed in the women's under-46㎏ division with a10-4 victory over Chinese Taipei's Lin Wan Ting in the final at Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasium on Ganghwa Island, just northwest of Incheon.Kim, the reigning world title holder in the division, brought the first gold to the host country, which had only picked up one silver and two bronze medals on

South Korea defeated Vietnam 3-0 for the women's football bronze medal at the Incheon Asian Games on Wednesday.Kwon Hah-nul, Jung Seol-bin and Park Hee-young each scored a goal in the second-half, as South Korea earned its second consecutive Asiad bronze.South Korea had lost to North Korea 2-1 in the semifinals Monday to fall into the bronze medal contest, while Vietnam had lost to Japan 3-0 in the other semifinal match.After a scoreless half at Incheon Football Stadium, Kwon got the team's firs

In a measure of redemption after four years, South Korea beat China 1-0 to clinch the gold medal in women's hockey at the Asian Games on Wednesday.Kim Da-rae scored the winner with 4:20 left in the third quarter, and South Korea held on to beat the defending Asiad champion China in the final match at Seonhak Hockey Stadium in the country's western port city of Incheon, securing the country's first title at the continental competition in 16 years.At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, China had beat

South Korean earned its first-ever silver medal in the rhythmic gymnastics team event at the Incheon Asian Games Wednesday.The team of Son Yeon-jae, Lee Da-ae, Gim Yun-hee and Lee Na-kyung collected a combined 164.046 points from the four apparatus routines in the team final held in Namdong Gymnasium, southern Incheon, after Uzbekistan with 170.130.South Korea had previously collected two team bronzes in 1998 and 2002.For the team event, a team of four gymnasts compete in 12 routines, with the t

 나라에 따라서 유형과 심각성이 다르기는 하지만 학교폭력의 문제는 우리나라만의 문제라기보다는 세계적으로 모든 학교에서 발생하는 일반적인 문제이다. 우리나라에서는 2012년 이후 정부와 민간의 적극적인 노력이 계속되면서 학교폭력에 대한 인식이 새로워지고 있고, 실제 학교내 폭력이 상당히 줄어들고 있는 것으로 조사되고 있다. 하지만 학교에서 학생들 사이의 언어적 폭력이나 따돌림이 근본적으로 해결되고 있지는 않은 것으로 보인다.학교폭력은 일반적으로 초등학교에서부터 시작이 된다고 할 수 있다. 조사결과에 따르면 학교폭력의 피해를 처음으로 경험하는 시기가 초등학생 때라는 응답이 거의 80%에 이르고 있다. 중학교는 학교폭력이 매우 심각해지는 연령대라고 할 수 있다. 학교별로 학교폭력 사안을 처리하는 자치위원회 심의건수 중에서 중학교 사안이 60～70%를 차지하고 있고, 피해학생의 보호와 가해학생에 대한 조치도 중학교에서 가장 많이 이루어지고 있다. 다른 사건이나 사고와 마찬가지로 학교폭력은

DAEGU, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- A fishing boat carrying three North Koreans aboard was found drifting in waters near South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo on Sunday, police said.The boat was spotted moving toward Dokdo from about 1.5 kilometers southeast of the islets at around 8:50 a.m., the police said.The three North Koreans said they followed the light from a lighthouse after their boat's power system broke down, according to the police.The North Koreans and the boat were taken to a nearby Co

WASHINGTON, Sept 07, 2014 (AFP) -- An American doctor who caught the Ebola virus while working in a Liberian maternity ward is showing signs of improvement, relatives said.Rick Sacra, 51, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center early Friday, becoming the third U.S. healthcare worker to be evacuated from West Africa amid the largest Ebola outbreak in history.More than 2,000 people have died from the contagious virus in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since the beginning of the year, acco

MARIUPOL, Ukraine, Sept 07, 2014 (AFP) - Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears Sunday that a tenuous truce between government and rebel forces had already collapsed.Numerous explosions rattled the night sky and thick smoke was visible on the horizon of Mariupol, a strategic government-held port city on the Azov Sea in the southeast of the country. Residents spoke of their panic as the fighting erupted, with gunfire and shelling that da

BERLIN, Sept. 6 (Yonhap) -- The key architect of North Korea's nuclear diplomacy called Saturday (local time) for the implementation of past inter-Korean deals as the first step toward improving bilateral ties.The remarks by Kang Sok-ju, the secretary handling international relations within North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, come as the two Koreas' ties have been strained over Pyongyang's short-range missile launches and the South's annual military drills with the United States.Kang, who broke

 The chairman of South Korea's largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group is on a trip to India and Turkey over the five-day Chuseok holiday to check production and sales of the carmaker's "strategic" mini vehicles.Chung Mong-koo's trip to India is his first since 2010, and his third foreign inspection tour this year, after visits to Europe and the United States.The tour of the Chennai plant comes as automotive think tanks like the Korea Automotive Research Institute predicted car sales on the subcon

SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- More than 60,000 South Koreans who applied to meet their separated family members in North Korea appear to have died before getting the chance to hold a reunion, government data showed Sunday.As of Aug. 31, 60,312 of the 129,575 people who applied for family reunions, or 46.5 percent, were dead, according to data from the Ministry of Unification, which handles inter-Korean affairs.Most of those who died are unlikely to have met their relatives in the North, as only 3,0

걸그룹 레이디스코드의 멤버 권리세가 끝내 의식을 회복하지 못하고 사망했다. 7일 오전 소속사 폴라리스엔터테인먼트 측은 보도자료를 통해 “레이디스 코드의 멤버 리세(본명 권리세)가 향년 23세의 나이로, 7일 오전 10시10분경 하늘나라로 떠났다”고 밝혔다.소속사에 따르면 리세는 지난 3일 사고 이후 장시간에 걸쳐 의료수술과 치료를 받았으며, 사망 당시 부모님과 소속사 직원들이 곁을 지켰다고 한다.뒤이어 "故 은비에 이어 다시 한 번 안타까운 소식을 전해드리게 돼 죄송한 마음과 비통한 마음을 금치 못하고 있습니다. 많은 분들께서 두 멤버의 명복을 빌어주시기 바라며, 가장 슬픔에 잠겨있을 다른 멤버들을 위해서도 많은 기도 부탁드립니다"라고 당부했다.고인의 빈소는 아직 정해지지 않았다.리세를 포함한 레이디스코드 멤버들은 지난 3일, 대구 일정을 마치고 서울로 돌아오던 새벽 1시30분경에 경기 용인시 기흥구 신갈동 영동고속도로 인천방향 신갈분기점 부근에서 타고 있던 승합차가 교통사고에 휘말

Roger Federer, of Switzerland, takes a break between games against Marin Cilic, of Croatia, during the semifinals of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday in New York. (AP-Yonhap News)NEW YORK (AP) -- Instead of Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer for the U.S. Open title, first-time Grand Slam finalists Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic will vie for the championship after a pair of semifinal surprises Saturday. First, Japan’s Nishikori became the first man from Asia to reach a major singles ch

WASHINGTON, Sept 06, 2014 (AFP) - President Barack Obama’s top White House national security aide lands in Beijing on Sunday, signaling that ties with China remain a priority despite turmoil and tensions tearing at US foreign policy.National Security Advisor Susan Rice is expected to meet President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials in talks which come two weeks after Washington accused a Chinese fighter jet of buzzing one of its spy planes.The talks will likely focus on key areas of

Director Roy Andersson poses for photographers with his Golden Lion for Best Film for his movie A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence following the awards ceremony of the 71th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday (AP-Yonhap News)VENICE, Italy (AP) _ Swedish director Roy Andersson won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion on Saturday for his absurdist drama “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.” That counts as a feel-good ending to a contest whos

Mathew Miller, an American detained in North Korea, speaks to the Associated Press, Monday in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP-Yonhap News)SEOUL, Sept 07, 2014 (AFP) - North Korea will put a detained U.S. citizen on trial on September 14, state media said Sunday, less than a week after Matthew Miller made a highly unusual televised plea for help from Washington.Miller, one of three Americans being held in North Korea, was arrested in April after Pyongyang said he ripped up his visa at immigration and

Flamboyant Japanese wrestler-turned-politician Kanji "Antonio" Inoki kicked off his brand of sports diplomacy in North Korea Saturday ahead of an unusual two-day event featuring martial artists from around the world.Inoki, 71, an opposition member of Japan's upper house with a penchant for red scarves, has travelled to the reclusive state with a host of international fighters in an attempt to use sport to thaw relations between Tokyo and Pyongyang.He met with North Korea's ceremonial head of sta

Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Friday to plug gaps in Britain’s armory to combat terror, describing the extremist threat posed by the Islamic State group as being more dangerous than even that of al-Qaida.Cameron’s remarks came just moments after authorities raised Britain’s terror threat level to severe, the second-highest level. The decision was related to developments in Iraq and Syria, but there was no information to suggest an attack was imminent.“What we are facing in Iraq now with I

China warned against foreign meddling in Hong Kong’s politics Saturday ahead of an expected announcement to recommend highly contentious restrictions on the first direct elections for the leader of the Chinese-controlled financial hub.An article in the ruling Communist Party’s flagship newspaper People’s Daily said that some in the former British colony were colluding with outside forces to interfere in Hong Kong’s governance.“Not only are they undermining Hong Kong’s stability and development,

The South Korean government said Saturday it welcomes the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of a statement calling for a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Yemen.As a member of the group Friends of Yemen, South Korea supports stability, peaceful political transition, and the smooth implementation of economic reform, Seoul’s foreign ministry said in a statement.The group was formed in 2010 to assist the efforts of Yemen authorities to ensure stability, prosperity and peace. Nineteen member state