The South Korea women's national football team on Tuesday clinched a place in next year's top Asian competition after beating Uzbekistan 4-0 in North Korea.South Korea scored three goals in the first half against Uzbekistan at Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyongyang to win the Asian Football Confederation Women's Asian Cup Group B qualifying tournament, which also featured North Korea, Hong Kong and India.The South Korea women's national football team celebrates after winning the Women's Asian Cup Grou

Graduates of prominent universities still dominate the C-suites at South Korea's leading conglomerates, although the latest analysis shows a slight drop in their proportion, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. (Yonhap)CEO Score surveyed the alma maters of 480 CEOs at 347 companies that rank in the country's top 500. Results showed that 48.9 percent of them, or 218 executives, were graduates of the three highest rated universities -- Seoul National, Yonsei and Korea. The ratio is 2.6 percent lowe

North Korea revived a parliamentary foreign affairs commission on Tuesday, its official media reported, a move seen aimed at beefing up its diplomacy amid toughening international sanctions.The 13th Supreme People's Assembly convened the fifth plenary session, attended by leader Kim Jong-un, clad in a Mao-style suit, according to the Korean Central News Agency.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending the fifth session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump has put North Korea "clearly on notice," and if he decides to take action, it will be "decisive and proportional" as seen in the US airstrikes on Syria, the White House warned Tuesday.White House press secretary Sean Spicer made the remark, referring to Trump's tweet earlier in the day that the US will solve the problem of North Korea on its own unless China helps with it. Trump also said the North is "looking for trouble." White House press secretary Sean

WASHINGTON -- The US dispatch of an aircraft carrier strike group to waters off the Korean Peninsula is a warning to North Korea that the US takes seriously threats from the communist nation, a US congressman said Tuesday.The US Pacific Command has redirected the strike group led by aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to head toward the Korean Peninsula, rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia, amid heightened concern the North could undertake additional provocations. (Yon

SEJONG -- The years-long operation to raise the 6,800-ton Sewol that sank in waters off South Korea's southwestern coast and bring it ashore was completed nearly three years after the country's worst maritime disaster took place, the government said Tuesday."We finished moving the Sewol into a dry dock at the port of Mokpo as of 3:58 p.m.," Lee Cheol-jo, the chief of the salvage operation, told reporters at a press conference. "We will first check the exterior condition of the hull tomorrow and

South Korea's leading presidential candidate Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that he doesn't think the United States will preemptively strike North Korea, insisting Washington must first consult with Seoul before taking any such action."The United States is talking about a preemptive strike as one of the available options, but I do not believe it will actually happen," Moon said in a press conference in Ulsan, 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul.Moon Jae-in, presidential candidate of the liberal Democrat

South Korea is set to release a set of support measures, including nurturing talented manpower, to help local pharmaceutical companies make further inroads into the global market, the country's health minister said Tuesday.The remarks were made during a meeting attended by Health Minister Chung Chin-yeob, and executives of major drug and medical companies. The meeting was held at the opening ceremony of biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc.'s new plant.(Yonhap)"The government will strengthen coo

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that preorders for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, has surpassed a whopping 600,000 units in just five days, heralding a big hit for the company.The Galaxy S8 smartphones feature high resolution displays that bend on both ends, and come with various innovative technologies such as iris and face recognition scanners and a smart voice assistance program dubbed Bixby.(Yonhap)After showcasing the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus late last month, Samsu

영화 '이태원 살인사건'의 작가 이정희(예명 이맹유·53) 씨가 11일 오후 2시 세종문화회관 세종홀에서 무소속 대통령 선거 후보 출마를 선언했다. 이 씨는 "자유왕래 통일을 위해 대선에 출마하기로 했다"며 개성공단과 금강산 관광 재개, 이산가족 서신교환 및 상시 만남, 평창 동계올림픽 남북 공동개최, 남북 철도 연결 등을 대선 공약으로 내세웠다. 고려대학교 국어국문과를 졸업하고 극단 배우, 시나리오 작가 등으로 활동했던 이 씨는 평양과 개성 등을 오가며 남북 교류협력 사업에도 참여했다. (연합뉴스) 영화 `이태원 살인사건` 포스터

Ousted President Park Geun-hye will go through another round of questioning this week, prosecutors said Tuesday, as they prepare to wrap up the probe into a corruption scandal that brought her down. Prosecutors will visit a detention center south of Seoul, where Park is incarcerated, on Wednesday morning for a fifth interrogation of the former president, they said.  A vehicle carrying prosecutors enters a detention center south of Seoul on April 10, 2017, to grill former President Park Geun-hye

China's top nuclear envoy said Tuesday that he will work hard to bring the United States and North Korea to the negotiating table for direct talks aimed at resolving the North's nuclear stalemate.Wu Dawei made the remarks in a meeting with Rep. Sim Sang-jung of the minor progressive Justice Party. During the 40-minute-long meeting, the two discussed North Korea's nuclear program and other issues of mutual concerns, according to Sim, who shared what was discussed in a press briefing.  China's chi

South Korean football legend Cha Bum-kun said Tuesday it's only a matter of time before Tottenham Hotspur attacker Son Heung-min breaks his scoring record in Europe.Cha holds the single season scoring record by a South Korean in Europe with 19 goals in all competitions during the 1985-86 season for the German side Bayer Leverkusen.Son, 24, is currently just one shy of Cha's record, after scoring twice against Watford in the English Premier League on Saturday. South Korean football icon Cha Bum-k

The United States Navy will consider South Korean seas as a place to host Pacific Partnership, a US-led annual regional exercise for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, if invited by the South Korean government, the commander of the mission said Tuesday.Mobilizing expeditionary fast transport USNS Fall River, this year's Pacific Partnership made its first stop in Sri Lanka and is currently taking place in Malaysia, with the participation of more than 200 military and civilian personnel

North Korea convened a key parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, amid heightened tensions over its possible nuclear and missile provocations.The 13th Supreme People's Assembly held its one-day plenary session for the first time since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was elected head of a new state body last year. (Yonhap)The legislative body is constitutionally the highest organ of state power but actually rubber-stamps decisions made by more powerful organizations, such

South Korea and the United States agreed Tuesday to maintain their firm unity against North Korea's military threats, a show of their robust alliance in the wake of the latest US-China summit talks.David F. Helvey, US assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, briefed Wee Seung-ho, South Korea's deputy defense minister for policy, by phone on the results of the Florida meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, according to Wee's mi

INCHEON -- A South Korean doctor has received a jail term for committing professional negligence resulting in the death of a German woman's baby during birth here about two and a half years ago, a local court said Tuesday. (Yonhap)The Incheon District Court said a 42-year-old female obstetrician was sentenced to eight months' incarceration after being indicted for mistakenly killing a 38-year-old German woman's fetus during birth at her clinic in this port city west of Seoul on Nov. 25, 2014.The

K-pop idol group BTS or Bangtan Boys has been nominated for the "Top Social Media Artist" of the Billboard Music Awards 2017, the organizer unveiled on its website on Monday. (Yonhap)The popular boy band will compete with Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes. It is the only Korean artist on the nominee list.The Billboard said they were picked based on "key fan interactions with music, including album and digital songs sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring and social eng

TOKYO -- Japanese figure skater Mao Asada is retiring.The 26-year-old Asada, the three-time world champion, says she lost her motivation after underperforming last season.She noted her best performances were in 2014, when she won her third world title and finished sixth at the Sochi Olympics.Silver medallist Mao Asada, of Japan, poses for photographs with her medal after the victory ceremony for the women's figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Food delivery mobile applications are growing rapidly in South Korea, driven by burgeoning demand amid the spread of the lone-eating trend and a rising number of single households, industry sources said Tuesday. Baedal Minjok, a leading mobile delivery app run by local startup Woowa Brothers, raked in 84.8 billion won ($74.8 million) in revenue last year, up 71 percent from a year earlier, according to data by the Financial Supervisory Service.(Yonhap)The company made a turnaround with some 2.5