정홍원 국무총리는 28일 국가정보원 대선개입 의혹 수사와 관련, "정부는 국정원 댓글을 포함한 일련의 의혹에 대해 실체와 원인을 정확히 밝힐 것"이라며 "책임을 물을 것이 있다면 결코 주저하지 않을 것"이라고 말했다.정 총리는 이날 오전 10시 정부서울청사에서 발표한 '경제와 현안에 대한 국민 여러분께 드리는 말씀'에서 "정부는 사법부의 판단과 조사결과가 나오는대로 필요한 조치를 취할 것"이라며 이같이 밝혔다. 새 정부 들어 총리가 대국민 담화를 발표하기는 이번이 처음이다. 이날 정 총리의 담화는 정국에 파장을 던진 국정원 대선개입 의혹 수사 및 외압 논란과 관련, 정부가 '철저하고 공정한 수사'를 하겠다는 각오를 국민을 상대로 직접 피력한 것으로 풀이된다.특히 박근혜 대통령 입장에선 전날 차기 검찰총장을 내정한 것을 계기로 정 총리의 담화를 통해 철저한 국정원 수사에 대한 의지를 국민과 야당에 우회적으로 피력했다는 해석이 나온다.이어 정 총리는 "대통령께서는 처음부터 지난 대선에서

Prime Minister Chung Hong-won on Monday said that the government would get to the bottom of the alleged election interference by the spy agency, calling on political parties to end their wrangling over the issue and focus on the economy and crucial national agenda.“The government will uncover the truth and the cause behind the series of allegations including the National Intelligence Service’s online comments,” Chung said in his first address to the public.  He reiterated that President Park Geu

Almost 1,500 Koreans were forced to work for what are now some of Japan‘s largest conglomerates during the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula on Russia’s far eastern island of Sakhalin, a government report showed Monday.The report, drawn up by a government committee tasked with supporting victims of forced labor during Japan‘s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula, showed that 1,469 Koreans were forced to work at plants belonging to the Japanese firms now known as Mitsubishi a

As one player after another fell by the wayside with injuries, the Doosan Bears have lost the luxury of a deep bench in the Korean Series.The Bears are clinging to a 2-1 series lead over the Samsung Lions for the supremacy in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO).Whereas the Lions enjoyed three weeks of break between the end of the regular season and the start of the Korean Series -- as the top seed, they had the bye to the championship final -- the Bears, No. 4 seed, have been playing since the

LG전자는 28일, 보도자료를 통해 자사의 휜 화면 스마트폰인 ‘LG G플렉스’의 디자인과 사양을 공개했다.LG G플렉스는 LG디스플레이가 개발한 ‘커브드(curved) 플라스틱 유기발광다이오드(OLED)’를 단 첫 스마트폰으로 라이벌 삼성전자의 휜 화면 스마트폰인 갤럭시 라운드가 가로로 휜 것과 반대로 세로로 휜 형태다.LG 전자의 측면에 따르면 인간공학적인 설계에 따라 곡률 700R을 채택했기 때문에 통화시 수화기와 송화기를 귀와 입에 최대한 가까이 접근시킬 수 있다고 한다.또한 동영상 재생시 제품을 가로로 돌리면 곡면 TV와 같은 몰입감과 현장감을 느낄 수 있으며, 제품이 휘었기 때문에 뉘었을 때 하단에 있는 스피커가 바닥과의 접촉면의 방해를 덜 받아 음악재생시 풍부한 소리를 즐길수 있다고 한다.플라스틱 OLED는 유리 기판이 아니라 탄성도가 높은 플라스틱 화면에 OLED 소자를 입히는 방식으로 만든 것이며 화소 하나당 빨강(R), 녹색(G), 파랑(B) 3개의 하위화소를 넣은

 이영표 (36. 밴쿠버 화이트캡스)가 27일 (현재시간) 현역 마지막 경기에 출장했다. 이영표는 이날 밴쿠버 BC 블레이스스타디움에서 콜로라도 래피즈를 상대로 한 정규시즌 마지막 경기에 오른쪽 측면 수비수로 출장해 풀타임을 소화했다. 밴쿠버가 플레이오프 진출에 실패함에 따라 이날 경기로 이영표는 현역생활을 마무리하게 되었다.은퇴경기임에도 불구하고 이영표는 전반 20분에 날카로운 크로스를 올리고 공수에서 활약하며 좋은 경기력을 과시했다. 이에 힘입은 밴쿠버의 수비진은 상대를 무득점으로 묶었고 팀은 까밀로 산베조의 해트 트릭에 힘입어 3대0 완승을 거뒀다.한편 밴쿠버는 이날 이영표의 마지막 경기를 기념하며 현역시절 하일라이트를 담은 동영상을 경기 전에 상영하기도 했다. 그런가 하면 경기장을 가득 매운 홈 관중들은 이영표가 소개될 때, 그리고 동영상 상영이 끝난 이후 각각 두 차례나 기립박수를 보냈다. 팬들은 “보고 싶을 겁니다(We’ll Miss U)”란 문구, 그리고 한국어로 “밴쿠

South Korea's vice unification minister will accompany lawmakers to an inter-Korean factory park in Gaeseong this week but will not meet with North Korean officials, the government said Monday.The South Korean lawmakers on the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee plan to travel to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North Korean border town of the same name on Wednesday on a fact-finding mission to see how South Korean businesses are coping with normalizing operations there."Vice Ministe

 프로젝트 그룹 트러블메이커의 신곡 ‘내일은 없어’ 뮤직비디오가 조회수 100만 건을 돌파하며 뜨거운 반응을 보이고 있다.트러블메이커는 28일 오전 0시를 기점으로 새 미니앨범 ‘케미스트리’(Chemistry)의 음원 전체와 타이틀곡 ‘내일은 없어’의 뮤직비디오를 공개했다.‘내일은 없어’는 음원이 공개되자마자 멜론, 벅스, 네이버, 엠넷, 다음, 소리바다 등 각 주요 음악사이트 실시간 음원차트 1위에 오르며 기염을 토해냈다. 특히 ‘내일은 없어’ 뮤직비디오는 공개된 지 10시간 만에 동영상 사이트 유튜브 100만 건을 돌파했다. "내일은 없다"의 뮤직비디오는 1930년대 실존 남녀 2인조 강조 '보니 앤 클라이드'를 모티브로 하고 있다. 특히 티저와 뮤직비디오는 공개 전부터 19금 판정을 받으며 숱한 화제를 몰고 다녔다.이 뮤직비디오에서 현아와 현승은 베드신, 차량 애정신, 키스신 등 애정연기를 선보여 눈길을 끌었다.한편 트러블메이커의 컴백 무대는 오는 30일 MBC 뮤직 ‘쇼챔피언

South Korean stocks traded 0.17 percent higher late Monday morning, boosted by gains in tech and auto blue chips, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 3.47 points to 2,037.86 as of 11:20 a.m.Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor, the first top two companies by market cap, soared more than 2 percent, with Hyundai Mobis, an auto-parts maker, hiking 4 percent. But shipping lines and logistics companies lost ground, with Hyundai Merchant Marine slumping more tha

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top smartphone maker, and two other South Korean companies accounted for nearly a third of combined net profits of local firms last year, data showed Monday, in the latest sign of concentration of wealth in a few conglomerates in Asia's fourth-largest economy.The other two companies are Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller sister company Kia Motors Corp., the two major flagship units of Hyundai Motor Group, the world's fifth-largest carmaker.The combined net pro

Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the world's top maker of smartphones Samsung Electronics Co., owns the most expensive houses out of the country's top 30 business leaders, data showed Monday.The combined declared value of houses held by the 30 business tycoons reached 157.7 billion won ($148.4 million) at end-June, up 9.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data by market researcher Chaebul.com.Lee has three homes in Seoul's affluent Itaewon, Sameong and Seocho areas, with a combined price of

Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that the history of art was over, has died. He was 89.Danto, art critic for The Nation magazine from 1984 to 2009 and a professor emeritus at Columbia University, died of heart failure Friday at his Manhattan apartment, daughter Ginger Danto said Sunday.An academically trained philosopher, Danto became as central to debat

Sales at South Korea's major discount outlet chains dropped from a year earlier last month while sales at department stores continued to grow, the government said Monday.Combined sales of the three major discount outlet chains here dropped 5.3 percent on-year in September, posting a on-year drop for the third consecutive month since July, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.The ministry attributed the drop partly to a radiation scare sparked by the nuclear accident at Japan's

South Korean consumer sentiment rose to the highest level in 17 months in October, aided by optimism that the local economy is showing signs of improvement, the central bank said Monday.The consumer sentiment index (CSI) came in at 106 for October, up from 102 tallied in the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK). The index is a gauge of consumers' overall economic outlook, living conditions and future spending.The October data marked the highest level since an identical 106 posted

Direct financing by South Korean companies soared 23 percent in September from a month earlier, as large firms opted to raise funds through bond sales on the back of lower borrowing costs, the financial regulator said Monday. Local companies raised a combined 10.8 trillion won ($10.1 billion) via selling stocks and bonds last month, compared with 8.8 trillion won the previous month, according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). The on-month rise came as large companies increased bond sal

North Korea's efforts to earn hard currency have suffered a setback not only due to U.N.sanctions but also from the financial crisis of Chongryon, a group of pro-Pyongyang residents in Japan, a Washington Post column said Sunday.As a result, the status and influence of Chongryon, or the General Association of Korean residents in Japan, has markedly decreased in the communist nation, said Max Fisher, the Post's foreign affairs blogger."The hermit kingdom has a number of ways to bring in cold, har

Lou Reed, the punk poet of rock ` n' roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, died Sunday at age 71.Reed died in Southampton, New York, of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who added that Reed had been in frail health for months. Reed shared a home in Southampton with his wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson, whom he marrie

The imbroglio over the tapping of Angela Merkel's phone deepened Sunday, after a U.S. denial that President Barack Obama was personally informed for years of electronic surveillance against the German chancellor.As a sense of betrayal spread in European capitals about spying activities conducted against world leaders and ordinary citizens, German media reports said tapping of Merkel's phone may have begun as early as 2002.Bild am Sonntag newspaper quoted U.S. intelligence sources as saying that

South Korean stocks reverted to negative territory Monday after starting the session a little higher, as worries about Chinese economic policy dented investor sentiment, analysts said. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) inched down 1.4 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,032.99 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Chemical companies and shipbuilders led the drop in the main index, with LG Chem and Hyundai Heavy Industries both dipping more than 2 percent each. Analysts forecast tha

The way this season has been going for Serena Williams, there was only one fitting way for it to end. Williams capped a career year in style Sunday, earning her 11th title of 2013 by coming from behind to beat Li Na 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 for her second straight WTA Championships crown.Williams became the eighth woman to win 11 or more titles in a year and the first since Martina Hingis had 12 in 1997. She is also the first to repeat as champion at the season-ending WTA Championships since Justine Henin