사자 여럿을 상대로 용감한 사투를 벌인 악어의 영상이 유투브 상에 공개되면서 해외 언론의 주목을 받았다.　외신에 따르면 카이 뱅크스라는 한 관광객이 케냐 삼부루 국립공원을 찾았다가 악어가 코끼리 먹잇감을 두고 사자들과 싸우는 모습을 포착한 동영상을 유투브에 올렸다. 　뱅크스는 “사자들이 악어에게 덤비는 모습을 보고 가이드의 입이 쩍 벌어졌다… 엄청난 일이 벌어지고 있다는 것을 직감했다”라고 당시의 상황을 묘사했다.　(khnews@heraldcorp.com)[사진 출처: 유투브 캡쳐]

Shareholders of Daum Communications Corp. and Kakao Corp. on Wednesday approved the merger of the two firms that will create the biggest company on South Korea's secondary bourse."As the merger deal passed the last step, (Daum and Kakao) will finalize the related procedures and officially launch the new entity on Oct. 1," the two firms said in a press release."With this, we have begun our full-fledged efforts to emerge as a global communication-information-life platform provider," they said.The

South Korea has narrowed down the candidates for its men's national team head coach to four or five, the sport's technical director said Wednesday.Lee Yong-soo, head of the technical committee at the Korea Football Association, told reporters that the goal is to fill the coaching vacancy within September but did not name any of the candidates."We have contacted four to five candidates about the position," Lee told reporters at the National Football Center in Paju, north of Seoul. "We hope to hav

배우 김가연이 악플러 91명을 고소했다고 공개했다.26일 방송된 tvN ‘현장토크쇼 택시’(이하 ‘택시’)에는 김가연-임요환 부부가 출연해 두 사람의 이야기를 풀어냈다.이날 김가연은 “악플러 중 10대는 2명 뿐이었다. 80여건을 고소했고, 최근 11명을 추가해 91명이 됐다. 그 중 결과처리가 된 건 40여건이다. 2명을 뺀 나머지는 모두 성인이다. 직장인, 대학생, 집에 계시는 분 등으로 20~30대가 가장 많았다”고 전했다.이어 “분포도가 지역별로 나뉘었다. 인천, 부천, 강릉, 대구에 밀집됐다”고 덧붙였다. 두 사람은 “특별히 연관된 지역이 아니다”며 그 이유에 대해 의아해 했다.악플러 고소를 반대했다던 임요환도 “효과가 상당히 있다. 악플의 개수가 눈에 띄게 줄었다”고 설명했다.이영자는 제작진과의 추가 인터뷰를 통해 “연예인은 상관없는 것에도 욕을 먹는다. 나도 우울증까지 갔었다. 용기를 내지 못했는데 그거에 용기를 내는 가연이가 대단하다고 느꼈다”고 털어놨다.(online

More than half of criminal suspects who have fled the country to escape punishment have not yet been rounded up, a report showed Wednesday.A total of 3,890 offenders absconded overseas after committing crimes on South Korean soil in the past five years, the report showed. Of that total, 2,175, or 55.8 percent, are still on the run. Rep. Lee Sang-min of the ruling Saenuri Party released the report based on data the justice ministry submitted to the National Assembly for an annual audit.China was

South Korea's major conglomerates increased spending on research and development in the first half of this year on expectations of a global economic recovery, data showed Wednesday.The combined amount of R&D investment made by 55 affiliates of South Korea's top 10 conglomerates increased 8.28 percent on-year to 30.12 trillion won ($29.64 billion) in the January-June period, according to the data reported in their regulatory filings.Of the tallied firms, 31 companies expanded their spending on R&

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. has resumed its supply of dynamic random access memory products to its rival U.S. Apple Inc. for the iPhone 6 to be released next month, industry sources said Wednesday, in a sign of reconciliation after a series of patent disputes.The world's No. 1 maker of smartphones recently has been providing its 20-nano level mobile DRAM for Apple's new iPhone, the sources said. The U.S. tech player has been resorting to SK hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. for the

Seoul Eland FC's new football coach Martin Rennie. (Seoul Eland FC)The new professional football club set to join the nation's second division next year will be named Seoul Eland FC, officials announced Tuesday.Eland, a local conglomerate with affiliates in retail, apparel and food service, last week received the green light from the K League, the national governing body of pro football, to found a new team for 2015. Eland had first declared its intention to enter football in April.The team will

A brother of the late shipping tycoon blamed partly for April's ferry disaster has requested a district court to temporarily release him from jail to attend his brother's funeral, court officials said Tuesday.Yoo Byun-ill, 75, the elder brother of Yoo Byung-eun, submitted the request to the Incheon District Court in this western port city on Monday, they said. The elder Yoo is currently on trial on charges of embezzlement.The body of the 73-year-old millionaire, whose family owns Sewol operator

The main opposition party launched a sit-in Tuesday in protest of the ruling party's refusal to discuss a controversial bill aimed at uncovering the truth behind April's deadly ferry sinking in a new format involving family members of the victims.The sit-in, staged by leaders of the No. 1 opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy in a conference room inside the National Assembly, is a new development in an ongoing parliamentary impasse over the bill.On Sunday, Park Young-sun, the NPAD floor

South Korea's top financial regulator said Tuesday it will pull back almost entirely from punishing individuals at financial institutions for missteps, in a move to encourage them to make riskier but potentially lucrative loans to start-ups.The Financial Services Commission said it will cut down on punitive measures against individuals by as much as 90 percent and instead leave disciplinary decisions to companies. It said it will continue to monitor and reprimand institutions for wrongdoing."Exc

South Korea's finance minister on Tuesday called on lawmakers to break the prolonged parliamentary deadlock and "swiftly" pass major economy-related bills to help the government jump-start slowing economic growth."The pulse in our economy is weakening," Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan said in a joint statement with other key policymakers."If those bills related to the livelihoods of the people do not pass during this session, and if we fail to revive the embers of economic recovery, the economy

The proportion of households spending more than they take in inched up in the second quarter from a year earlier, government data showed Tuesday, suggesting that people are finding it harder to make ends meet amid slowing economic growth.According to the data provided by Statistics Korea, the proportion of households whose consumption spending exceeded their disposable income stood at 23 percent during the April-June period, up 0.9 percentage point from a year earlier. The increase is attributab

The size of the long-term evolution market in China is expected to become the world's largest in 2014 by overtaking that of the United States, a report showed Tuesday."We predict China will overtake the U.S. as the number one LTE market in terms of LTE smartphone sales in the second half of 2014," Neil Shah was quoted in the report by Hong Kong-based industry tracker Counterpoint.China, which introduced the LTE service in December 2013, moved into the world's No. 2 position in LTE smartphone sal

A nuclear reactor on South Korea‘s southeast coast halted operation on Monday as rainwater flooded in, plant operators said.The Gori-2 nuclear power plant, about 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul, was manually shut down at about 3:54 p.m. No immediate threats of a radiation leak have been detected, according to the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co.“As excessive water flowed into a building that takes in seawater to cool down turbine steam, we decided to manually halt the operation of the nuclear

Police were to hand over the body of a billionaire who owned a ferry that sank in southern waters, causing the loss of about 300 lives, to his family later on Monday, a police source said.A Christian sect co-founded by Yoo Byung-eun will then place his body inside Geumsuwon, its headquarters in Anseong, about 80 kilometers south of Seoul, for several days and hold a two-day funeral for him, the source said."We're going to transfer the body, which currently lies in state in the National Forensic

North Korea's imports of Chinese rice grew sharply in July, data showed Monday, apparently due in part to efforts to stabilize the price of the staple food in the impoverished country.North Korea bought $7.02 million worth of rice from the neighboring country last month, up 115 percent from $3.27 million a year earlier, according to Chinese trade data from the Seoul-based Korea International Trade Association.The amount also represents an on-month increase of 53 percent from $4.57 million.The su

A civic group on Monday called for Samsung Electronics Co. to take full responsibility and comply with an appellate court decision last week that held the tech giant liable for the leukemia deaths of two former production-line employees."Samsung should follow the court ruling and provide compensation as well as a sincere apology to the families of the victims, and come up with viable measures to prevent any more such deaths," the Protector of Health and Human Rights of Semiconductor Workers (SHA

A scene from “Roaring Currents.” (CJ Entertainment)A South Korean megahit movie about a 16th-century Korean admiral's astonishing victory over Japanese naval forces has earned more than $1.18 million after last week's release in North America, the movie's distributor said Monday.The film, "Roaring Currents," posted the box-office haul in seven days after it was released in the region on Aug. 15 under the title "The Admiral: Roaring Currents," according to CJ Entertainment.The figure is a record

South Korean pop group Girls' Generation will hold a concert in Tokyo to mark the fourth year of its debut in Japan, the group's agency said Monday.The concert titled "The Best Live at Tokyo Dome" will be held on Dec. 9 at Tokyo Dome, the first time for the group to hold a solo concert in the venue, S.M. Entertainment said.During the concert, the group will present the best of its hit songs and tracks from its latest album.Ahead of the event, the band uploaded a special video that compiled its J