The vice mayor of Vienna, Austria, said the city plans to support creative Korean start-ups seeking to set up businesses in the capital.“We now have a few Korean start-ups in Vienna, but I hope to see more promising Korean companies in the city,” said Vienna’s Vice Mayor Renate Brauner in an interview with the Korea Herald in Seoul. “Seoul and Vienna have many things in common. Both cities have a combination of tradition and modernity, and a rich cultural heritage, which is a good base for innov

Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters supporting a subway strike that has unleashed transport chaos three days before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the World Cup kick-off.A group of about 150 protesters set fire to piles of garbage to block a central avenue in the Brazilian business hub, prompting some two dozen riot police to fire stun grenades and then tear gas to disperse them.The demonstrators were backing a five-day-old strike by subway workers that has posed a ma

The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea and China will hold talks in Beijing this week to discuss ways to resume long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Seoul officials said Monday, ahead of a widely-anticipated visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Seoul later this month.Hwang Joon-kook, Seoul's chief envoy for the six-party talks, will meet his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, during his two-day visit starting Tuesday, South Korea's foreign ministry sa

The focus in the global DRAM market is shifting from personal computers to mobile devices as demand rises for smartphones and tablets, according to recent industry figures. Reflecting this trend, shipments of mobile DRAM exceeded those of PC DRAM in the first quarter of the year, global research firm DRAMeXchange said. It marked the second time in three quarters since mobile DRAM shipments first outstripped PC DRAM’s in the third quarter of 2013. “The global shipment of 2 GB DRAM rose 29 percent

North Korea on Monday strongly protested against the United Nations' plan to set up a field office in South Korea that will deal with North Korean human rights violations, threatening "merciless punishment" on those involved in the plan as well as workers at the envisioned office.The South Korean foreign ministry said late last month that it has accepted a request by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to set up the office in South Korea as part of the international communi

Samsung Everland, a theme park operator and de facto holding company of Samsung Group, is expected to change its name to Cheil Industries. Samsung Everland will hold a board meeting early next month to approve the change, the company’s spokesperson Park Hyung-keun confirmed on Sunday. “As Samsung Everland’s business has become diversified, it needs a new name to fit its new role. Cheil Industries seems suitable for its new company name from a historical and symbolic perspective,” he said. The na

TAIPEI ― Synaptics, a human interface solution provider, expects to use its fingerprint authentication technology in wearables next year. “Probably, you will see fingerprint technology in wearable devices in 2015. Using fingerprint ID sensors for a small curved display is not a big challenge,” Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics, said at its press briefing on Wednesday in Taipei. Though he did not name any specific companies, Samsung Electronics, the only client of Synaptics’ fingerprint technology,

Google Inc., complying with a top court ruling that backs European citizens’ right to delete personal information on the Internet, received 12,000 requests in the first day of offering an online removal form. The world’s biggest search provider set up the website on May 29, following a ruling by the EU Court of Justice earlier this month that citizens’ fundamental rights could be harmed by information on the Web and where there’s no public interest in publishing it. Google has also formed a grou

South Korea and the United States agreed Saturday to fix the timing of and conditions for the transfer of wartime control of South Korean troops from Washington to Seoul by October, officials here said Saturday.During the bilateral talks in Singapore earlier in the day, Seoul's defense minister Kim Kwan-jin and his U.S. counterpart, Chuck Hagel, agreed upon the work plan that specifies the timetable to decide when and under what conditions the South will regain the wartime operational control (O

It's 2 billion and counting for Psy and his irrepressible ``Gangnam Style.''The South Korean pop star's surprise hit has become the first YouTube video to surpass 2 billion views, crossing the mark around shortly before midnight EDT Friday.The unlikely viral star holds the record for most overall views and most views in a day with 38 million for his ``Gangnam Style'' followup ``Gentleman.''No other video comes close to ``Gangnam'' on the streaming service's list of top videos. Justin Bieber's ``

Yonhap월드스타 싸이의 글로벌 히트 곡 '강남스타일' 뮤직비디오가 유튜브 사상 최초로 '20억 뷰'를 돌파했다. 2012년 7월 15일 공개된 '강남스타일' 뮤직비디오는 31일 낮 12시30분 조회수 20억2천136건을 기록했다. 지난 2월 19억 건을 돌파한 지 3개월여 만에 다시 '1억 뷰 '를 추가해 공개 1년 10개월 만에 대기록을 수립했다. 앞서 이 뮤직비디오는 2005년 유튜브 창사 이래 처음으로 2012년 12월 '10억 뷰 '를 돌파하며 최단 기간, 최다 조회수 기록을 세웠다. 이어 1년 5개월 만에 다시 '10억 뷰'를 추가하는 빠른 조회수 증가를 보였다.     싸이는 미국 방송에서 신곡 '행오버'(HANGOVER)를 처음 공개한다. 31일 소속사 YG엔터테인먼트에 따르면 싸이는 이날 오후 7시(미국 동부시간 기준) 미국 심야 토크쇼 '지미 키멜 라이브: 게임 나이트'(Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night)에 세계적인 힙합 뮤지션 스눕독과 함께

Yonhap30일 버지니아 페어펙스카운티 정부 청사에서 미국 지방정부 청사로는 1호인 위안부 기림비 제막식이 펼쳐졌다. 기림비 앞면에는 일제에 의해 한국과 중국 등 여러 나라 여성들이 강제로 성노예로 동원됐다는 내용이, 뒷면에는 일본 정부의 배상을 요구하는 내용이 각각 표기됐다. 이날 제막식에는 현지 한인들과 페어팩스카운티 관계자들 등 약 150명이 참석했다.제막에 앞서 지역 한인 학생들의 소고춤과 북춤 공연이 있었고, 제막 후에는 살풀이 공연과 아리랑 독창 등의 축하 행사가 이어졌다. 갈색과 검은색이 섞인 나비 20여 마리를 하늘로 날려보내는 이벤트도 진행됐다.제막식 참석을 위해 미국을 찾은 군위안부 피해자 강일출(86) 할머니는 기념사에서 "미국 동포들이 힘써줘서 감사하다"라며 "일본 정부는 (군위안부 문제를) 신속하게 사과해야 하고, 한국 정부가 사과와 배상을 받아내야 우리가 이 세상을 떠날 수 있다"라고 말했다.(onlinenews@heraldcorp.com)<관련 영문 기사

A suburb of the US capital dedicated a monument Friday to World War II sex slaves in the latest local victory by Korean Americans in historical disputes with Japan.After a campaign and fundraising by Korean American activists, the government center of Fairfax County, Virginia, unveiled twin sculptures of butterflies and a plaque in honor of so-called "comfort women" -- the up to 200,000 women from Korea and elsewhere forced into brothels for imperial Japan's soldiers.On a green knoll on the gove

North Korea said Saturday it has sentenced a South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set up underground churches, the latest in a string of missionaries to run into trouble in the rigidly controlled North.North Korean state media said the missionary was tried Friday and admitted to anti-North Korean religious acts and ``malignantly hurting the dignity'' of the country's supreme leadership, a reference to the ruling Kim family. The rival Koreas ha

Search operations for missing people in last month's deadly sinking of the ferry Sewol were put on hold Saturday following the death of a civilian diver during an underwater job, officials said.With little progress being made over the past 10 days to find the 16 people still missing, 44-year-old diver Lee Min-seop was killed Friday while participating in the operations to cut open windows of the submerged hull to gain access to unsearched compartments filled with debris.He was sent to a nearby h

A steady stream of people nationwide headed to polling stations Saturday on the second and last day of the advance voting period for the June 4 local elections, with both parties vigilant over the effects of the larger-than-expected voter turnout. As of 9 a.m., the turnout of the two-day early voting came to5.52 percent, according to the National Election Commission. On Friday, 4.75 percent of electorates nationwide, or about 1.96 million people, cast their ballot. South Korea first adopted the

North Korea included part of South Korea's territorial waters near the inter-Korean western sea border when selling its fishing rights to China, military sources here said Saturday."Part of our waters in the Yellow Sea was included in the area that the North is allowing Chinese vessels to fish in," said a military officer in Seoul, requesting anonymity. "Upon learning this, we've notified China of such a fact and asked them to be careful not to cross the northern limit line (NLL) into the South,

China has reported "positive progress" in its latest round of negotiations with South Korea aimed at forging a bilateral free trade agreement, but it remains unclear if the two sides made headway in sensitive issues. The comments by China's commerce ministry on Friday came shortly after South Korea and China wrapped up their 11th round of negotiations in Meishan, located in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. In a brief statement posted on its website, the Chinese ministry said the "po

SK hynix said Friday it has signed a deal to acquire part of U.S. data storage firm Violin Memory to enhance its presence in the fast-growing market for flash memory devices. Shares of the world’s No. 2 memory chipmaker rose to a 52-week high of 44,150 won on expectations that the deal would sharpen its edge in high-value-added semiconductors. Violin said SK hynix has agreed to pay about $23 million in cash to take over its computer expansion card division based on PCIe (Peripheral Component Int

Samsung announced a new digital health vision with the introduction of Simband, a health-tracking wristband, and its big data cloud platform SAMI, at the company’s digital health event in San Francisco. “We can do more in the health care sector, by combining the advancement of what we have seen in mobile technology with hardware, sensors, algorithms, behavioral science, big data and the cloud,” said Samsung Electronics’ chief strategy officer Young Sohn, wearing a prototype of the rectangular wr