Japan's foreign ministry was found to have posted a high-ranking official's comments on its English website Saturday that denies forceful mobilization of comfort women by its military and government authorities during World War II.The posting dated on Aug. 9 was a summary of comments by Shinsuke Sugiyama, Japan's deputy foreign minister, during a United Nations committee meeting held in Geneva back in February. The summarized remarks were first posted on the ministry's official website in March

South Korean rhythmic gymnast Son Yeon-jae has qualified for the individual all-around final at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Son ranked fifth among 10 qualifiers with 71.956 points earned from her four apparatuses on Friday.Son scored 18.358 points in clubs, 18.266 points in ball,17.866 points in ribbon and 17.466 points in hoop.Margarita Mamun of Russia led all qualifiers with 74.838 points total. She led all gymnasts in ribbon (19.050), ball (19.000) and hoop (18.833).Yana Kudryavtseva, also of

“정말 믿을 수 없는 경험이었어요. 제 평생의 꿈이 이뤄졌으니까요.”　　해외 입양인 경은 데이비슨 (33) 씨는 한국에서 태어나 만 3세때 미국으로 입양됐다.평생 그리워해 온 친어머니를 찾기 위해 2005년부터 2년이나 한국에 머물렀지만 입양기관의 정보공개 거부로 인해 재회의 꿈은 무산됐다. 이달 초까지만 해도 친어머니를 찾는 건 불가능하다고 생각하며 살고 있던 중, 무심코 온라인 유전자 데이터베이스에 본인의 DNA 정보를 등록했다 꿈같은 소식을 들었다. 　　헤어진지 30년만에 친어머니를 찾은 것이다. 　어릴 적 사진:　경은 데이비슨 씨는 3살이던 1986년 미국으로 입양돼 오레곤에서 자랐다. (경은 데이비슨)　“8월 3일 밤에 단순히 잠이 오지 않아서 등록했을 뿐이에요. 제 유전자 정보는 2년전에 검사해서 받아놓은 게 있었고요. 별 기대를 하지 않고 입력했는데 고작 48시간 만에 제 친어머니와 카카오톡으로 대화를 하게 될 줄은 정말 몰랐어요.”　　데이비슨 씨는 미국 국적의 한국계

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump is now accusing President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities."In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama,'' Trump said Wednesday during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "He is the founder of ISIS."He repeated the allegation three more times for emphasis.Trump also pointedly referred to the president by his full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama.The

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Huffington Post is going to be without a Huffington. Arianna Huffington says she is stepping down as editor-in-chief to focus on a new health startup. She founded The Huffington Post in 2005, and it grew to become one of the biggest online media players. It is currently owned by Verizon Communications Inc.The departure comes several weeks after Verizon said it was buying the media properties of Yahoo Inc. for about $4.8 billion.The Huffington Post is known for its celebrity

KAMPALA (AFP) -- Ugandan officials raided a prestigious private school on Thursday to seize copies of British children's author Jacqueline Wilson's "Love Lessons" on the orders of a minister who has led several crackdowns on "obscene" conduct.Minister for ethics and integrity Simon Lokodo said the book exposed children attending the exclusive Greenhill Academy to sex at too young an age. The school in the capital Kampala is popular with Uganda's elite and Western expatriates, and admits pupils b

Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant Thursday against the owner of the South Korean baseball club Nexen Heroes for his alleged fraud and embezzlement.The move came a few days after the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office summoned Lee Chang-suk, who is alleged to have reneged on a 2008 promise to hand over his stake of the ball club to a Korean-American businessman in return for 2 billion won (US$1.7 million).Hong Sung-eun, chairman of the Atlanta-based real estate developer Rainier Group,

South Korea has requested Cambodian police to thoroughly investigate the killing of a South Korean man there earlier this week, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.The man in his 50s was shot dead in a region some 30km south of Phnom Penh on Wednesday, according to the official.The victim is believed to be a resident in Cambodia, but more details of the incident are still unknown. Local police are looking into the case."The South Korean Embassy in Cambodia dispatched a consular official to

[THE INVESTOR] South Korea’s wealthy elderly feel unhappy at not receiving money from their grown children, while those in financial difficulties feel sad about not being able to support their offspring, a study showed Monday. The study, compiled by the Korean Society of Gerontological Social Welfare, surveyed 358 elderly who belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of the elderly population as well as 1,462 individuals with household income of 1 million won ($900) or less a month. 123rf.The study fo

More than half of employed foreign-born migrant wives in Korea work as either temporary or day laborers, while 9.5 percent of them work for free for their Korean in-laws’ businesses here, a study showed on Sunday.　The study, published in the latest edition of academic journal Gender Review, analyzed government data on 226,084 foreign-born women immigrants who married South Korean nationals. 　The report found that 52.4 percent of all migrant wives were employed as of 2012, while 84.1 percent of t

The leaders of South Korea and Switzerland agreed Wednesday to expand bilateral cooperation in promising industry sectors including health care, medicine, and information and communications technologies (ICT), the presidential office here said.After their summit in Seoul, President Park Geun-hye and her Swiss counterpart Johann Schneider-Ammann oversaw the signing of three memorandums of understanding (MOUs) related to ICT cooperation, personnel exchanges and research collaborations in the areas

TOKYO (AP) -- An influential Japanese political lobby says it will do its utmost to capitalize on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's election victory to push for a constitutional revision for a more active military role. Tadae Takubo, chairman of Nippon Kaigi, said Wednesday that the war-renouncing constitution that makes Japan's defense ``defective'' needs to be corrected. Abe's election gains in the upper house over the weekend mean his party can now cobble together the crucial two-thirds majority in

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The U.S. military in Africa said Wednesday it has sent 40 additional soldiers to South Sudan's capital, Juba, to help secure American personnel and facilities in the war-torn city, while South Sudanese trying to flee the country by road reported attacks, killings and robberies by armed men.Amid a tense cease-fire which has held since Monday night, the U.S. troops deployed at the request of the State Department, said Africom spokeswoman Cpt. Jennifer Dyrcz.In five days of f

In the aftermath of the Hague tribunal’s ruling on the South China Sea, Seoul’s dilemma is poised to deepen as the U.S. will likely call for its ally to speak up on Beijing’s assertiveness in the region in pursuit of joint action, observers here said Wednesday.　The watershed findings announced Tuesday dealt a major blow to China. The tribunal rebuked Beijing’s claim to “historic rights” over the bulk of the resources-rich waters as lacking legal basis and said some of its activities breached the

When Kim Eun-ju got married in 2007, she never expected her mother-in-law would call her every day to ask a particular question: What did you feed my son for breakfast today?  　“My mother-in-law would first call me, get my answers and then call my husband to check whether I lied to her or not,” the 39-year-old registered nurse told The Korea Herald. “She would call me every day for the first three months of my marriage – just to make sure I made him homemade breakfast.”　Throughout her 10-year ma

BERLIN, (AP) -- German prosecutors said Thursday they had arrested an alleged Algerian Islamic State group militant who had had contact with the late ringleader of the November Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.The suspect, identified only as 20-year-old Bilal C., is accused of having informed Abaaoud of ways to smuggle jihadists into Western Europe along the Balkans route then used by a mass influx of migrants.  He had also been in touch with Moroccan jihadist Ayoub El Khazzani, who opened fire

LONDON, (AFP) -- Five men died Thursday in an accident at a recycling centre near Birmingham, central England and a sixth man has been taken to hospital with serious leg injuries, police said."Police can confirm that five men have died after an industrial accident at a recycling site at Nechells this morning," the police statement said, referring to a suburb of the city."Officers were called... to reports that a wall had collapsed. Emergency services attended but the men could not be saved and t

Thousands of unionized workers of GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., voted in favor of a strike, an official said Thursday, a move that may set the stage for a walkout.The official said 71 percent of more than 13,600 unionized workers voted for the strike, though they could not immediately stop working.By law, a union cannot go on strike during mediation by the state-run National Labor Relations Commission which usually lasts 10 days.The company official sa

WASHINGTON (AP) --  Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, a sign that U.S. workers still have job security despite recent tremors in the global economy.The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications fell 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted 254,000. The 4-week average, which is less volatile, dipped slightly to 264,750.Unemployment claims are a proxy for layoffs. The 70-week streak of claims staying below 300,000 is the longest since 1973. It's evidence that employers v

The national Olympic body has scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday to discuss the status of banned swimmer Park Tae-hwan.The Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) said Thursday the agenda at its board of directors meeting will include Park's eligibility for this year's Rio de Janeiro Summer Games. A KOC rule bars athletes from competing for the country for three years after the end of a doping suspension. And Park, whose international doping ban ended in March this year, was kept off the provision