South Korea on Tuesday strongly condemned a terror attack at a concert in Britain that killed 22 people and injured 59 others.South Korea "cannot hide shock and anger over the loss of many lives in a barbaric terrorist attack at a concert in Manchester," foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said in a statement.South Korea also offered its condolences to the victims' families and British people and vowed to continue to join international efforts to eradicate terrorism.According to the Greate

South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol said Tuesday that AlphaGo defeated Chinese Go player Ke Jie just as he'd expected.Google's artificial intelligence program defeated Ke, the world No. 1 in the ancient board game, by a half point in 289 moves in the first round of a special Go event named "The Future of Go Summit" in Wuzhen, China.  In this file photo taken on Dec. 13, 2016, South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol speaks in an event hosted by the Korea Baduk Association in Seoul. (Yonhap)The second gam

Hosts South Korea are likely to use a back three system against Argentina for their second Group A match at the FIFA U-20 World Cup here on Tuesday.The starting lineup released by FIFA shows South Korea will deploy three central defenders -- Lee Sang-min, Jeong Tae-wook, and Kim Seung-woo -- at the back, with Lee You-hyeon and Yoon Jong-gyu playing as wing backs, in the match against Argentina at Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, some 240 kilometers south of Seoul.The match will start at 8 p.m

Samsung Engineering Co., the plant building unit of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group, said Tuesday that it has signed a letter of intent with a company to build a petrochemical plant in Southeast Asia. (Yonhap)The company said the proposed deal is worth 513 billion won ($456 million) in a regulatory filing, though it did not reveal details, citing a confidentiality agreement. (Yonhap)

 South Korean climber Kim Jain on Saturday conquered the country's highest building to become the first woman to achieve the feat with her bare hands.At an event to celebrate the opening of the 123-story Lotte World Tower in southern Seoul, she reached the top of the building after about two hours and 30 minutes without the help of footholds."It was difficult as the holds I was using for climbing were getting narrow when I went up higher," said Kim after finishing the performance. "I tried to en

South Korea and Japan have agreed to resolve a row over a 2015 deal on Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women in a future-oriented manner, President Moon Jae-in's special envoy said Saturday.Moon Hee-sang relayed that Japan said that it understood South Koreans' negative sentiment toward the controversial deal reached by the former South Korean government and Japan.His remarks came after returning from his four-day trip to Japan where he delivered Moon's letter to Japanese Prime Mini

Corporate deposits held by South Korean banks decreased by the largest amount in the first three months of the year, central bank data showed Saturday, as businesses are moving to expand investment amid an upturn in Asia's fourth-largest economy.Total bank savings by local businesses reached 367.5 trillion won ($327.4 billion) as of end-March, down 15.9 trillion won, or 4.2 percent from three months earlier, according to the data compiled by the Bank of Korea.It is the largest on-quarter decline

Iran says incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is ahead of his nearest competitor in an initial count of votes in the election. Interior Ministry deputy minister Ali Asghar Ahmadi told journalists in a televised news conference Saturday morning that over 40 million Iranians voted in Friday's election. That puts turnout above 70 percent.Ahmadi says the initial vote count has the moderate cleric Rouhani with 14.6 million votes. Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi has 10.1 million votes.Ahmadi says the In

Military tensions on the Korean peninsula should not prevent the nuclear-armed North sending a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South, according to the head of the Games organising committee Lee Hee-Beom.The former diplomat and trade minister also said the heavily-fortified border between the two Koreas would be opened to allow any North Korean team to make a highly symbolic road crossing into the South.Because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, the

North Korea on Saturday unveiled footage which it claims backs its latest revelation that South Korean and U.S. spy agencies plotted to kill its leader Kim Jong-un using a biochemical substance.North Korea's propaganda outlet Uriminjokkiri TV filed the footage containing testimony from what it insists is a terrorist and pieces of evidence about an alleged terror attempt against Kim.orth Korea claimed on May 5 that a terrorist group supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and South Kor

A new public park converted from a superannuated elevated roadway near Seoul Station in the center of the capital was opened to the public on Saturday after years of construction.The construction project for the Seoul Station elevated park began in 2014, when Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon declared a Seoul version of Manhattan's High Line Park after visiting the grassy elevated area in New York. Seoul`s new high rise park dubbed "Seoullo 7017" (Yonhap)At that time, Park revealed a plan to transform t

South Korea's presidential envoy Hong Seok-hyun met with U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain on Friday to outline the policy of President Moon Jae-in on the alliance with the U.S., North Korea and other issues.Hong was also scheduled to meet later Friday with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry as part of a series of meetings he has been holding since arriving in Washington on Wednesday on a mission to reaffirm and further strengthen the alliance under th

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's "Okja" has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival with the filmmaker getting a four-minute standing ovation.The new film from the "Snowpiercer" director tells the story of a young girl from a rural town who risks everything to prevent a multinational company from kidnapping her best friend, a super-pig named Okja. Audiences applause for Bong Joon-ho`s new film "Okja" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.(Joint Press Corp. via Yonhap)Thousands of movie fans g

The U.S. defense chief warned Friday that a military solution to the standoff with North Korea would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale," while the North vowed to rapidly strengthen its nuclear-strike capability as long as it faces a "hostile'' U.S. policy. North Korea tested a longer-range missile last weekend, which experts say was a significant advance for a weapons program that aims at having a nuclear-tipped missile that can strike America. The test triggered a new U.S.-backed push for a f

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Friday that the U.S. and its partners are working to find a non-military solution to the problem of North Korea because military options would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale.""We're going to continue to breed the same kind of pressure internationally that we've been trying to. We're going to continue to work the issue. As you know, if this goes to a military solution, it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale," Mattis said."So our effort is

North Korea will no longer host the judo world junior championships because of security risks amid rising political tension with South Korea and the United States."At present, this situation is alarming, and the outcomes are difficult to predict," the International Judo Federation said Wednesday after talks with North Korea's sports ministry. Chang Ung (left), the sole North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee, talks with North Korean coaches while watching the men's judo event

The South Korean national under-20 football team lost to the defending Asian club football champions 3-0 on Wednesday in a friendly match ahead of an upcoming FIFA competition at home.South Korea, led by head coach Shin Tae-yong, were schooled by Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in their tune-up match for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup at Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province. The country will host the U-20 World Cup from May 20 to June 11 in six cities. South Korean under-20 national te

North Korea said on Tuesday a US move to impose additional sanctions against it is nothing new and will surely fail."The US House of Representatives is mulling passing a 'bill on escalating sanctions with respect to transactions relating to North Korea'," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a signed commentary."The bill, the keynote of which is to seek the sinister intention of totally excluding the DPRK from the international financial system, is nothing new as it is part of

세계적인 차량 공유업체 우버 (Uber)의 창업자이자 수장인 트래비스 칼라닉이 3년전 방한 당시 접대 여성이 나오는 룸살롱에 방문했다고 그의 전 여자친구가 폭로했다.칼라닉의 전 여자친구이자 바이올리니스트인 가비 홀즈워스는 美 실리콘밸리 전문지인 ”더 인포메이션 (The Information)“과의 인터뷰에서, 칼라닉이 2014년에 우버 직원 5명과 함께 서울에 한 룸살롱 (Escort-Karaoke Bar)을 방문했으며, 자신도 그 자리에 함께였다고 말했다. 트래비스 칼라닉 (AP-연합)이들과 함께 한 직원들중 현직 우버 임원인 에밀 마이클도 있었으며, 그는 ”마음에 드는 여성을 번호로 고른뒤 자신의 옆에 앉게 했다”고 홀즈워스가　밝혔다. 칼라닉은 최근 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 자문역을 맡겠다고 했다가 질타를 받고 포기했으며, 직장 내 성희롱 사건도 뒤늦게 발생했다. 또 그가 운전사에게 고함을 지르는 동영상도 공개되어 실리콘밸리의 신화 우버의 이미지가 악화되고 있다.　(khnew

Moon Jae-in, former head of the Democratic Party, stood as the most favored presidential hopeful by South Koreans, a poll showed Sunday, as the country is widely expected to hold an early presidential election in May.According to the poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday by Korea Research Center, commissioned by Yonhap News Agency and KBS, Moon received an approval rating of 29.9 percent. His standing remained almost unchanged from a similar survey conducted in February. From left to right -- Mo