The Korea Herald

NATIONAL

All
Politics
Social Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Defense
North Korea
Science
Diplomatic Circuit
Education

LATEST NEWS

Football player receives financial reward for rejecting match-fixing offer
Why is #ARMYIndependenceDay trending?
Opposition parties slam Seoul subway operator over job favors
[Newsmaker] Passenger dies of heart attack onboard Asiana Airlines
Canada now world’s largest legal marijuana marketplace
NASA astronaut describes close call following failed launch
Suspects in Saudi journalist case tied to top prince: report
[Breaking] YouTube resumes service after 1-hour crash, global disruption
Korean military planes to operate in quake-hit Indonesia through next week
Unification ministry mulls meeting with N. Korea defectors amid controversy

Today International

[Newsmaker] Passenger dies of heart attack onboard Asiana Airlines

A male passenger on an Asiana Airlines flight from Incheon to Chicago died of a heart attack last Thursday around two to three hours after takeoff, Chicago’s Korean-language media outlet reported Tuesday. The captain reported a medical emergency on board after the man, 76, experienced heart attack symptoms and collapsed. Flight attendants made an announcement and found a physician, who performed CPR in an attempt to save the sick man, but he was pronounced dead. Authorities say the deceased man

Korean military planes to operate in quake-hit Indonesia through next week

South Korea said Wednesday it will extend the mission of two military jets in Indonesia hit by a powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami.The cargo planes were dispatched to the central island of Sulawesi on Sept. 28 to support emergency aid supplies.Their mission was supposed to end Wednesday. This photo taken on Oct. 2, 2018, shows a collapsed hotel in Palu, Indonesia, which was hit by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami the previous week. (Yonhap)But the government has decided to prolong it

Today
International
Vietnam blogger sentenced again after Facebook posts

HANOI (AFP) -- Vietnam on Friday jailed a blogger who posted critical material on Facebook for five years, his second sentence in less than a month as a hardline administration tightens its grip on dissent.　More than 50 activists, rights campaigners and bloggers have been put behind bars in 2018, in one of the harshest crackdowns in years. 　Observers say a conservative administration in charge since 2016 is behind the sweeping campaign, which shows few signs of easing. Vietnam`s Prime Minister N

Oct 12, 2018
International
Japanese PM Abe to visit China in sign of improved relations

BEIJING (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to travel to China later this month for his first formal visit in seven years, in a further sign of improving relations between the regional rivals. 　　Bilateral ties nosedived in 2012 after Japan nationalized a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by Beijing, setting off violent protests in China. 　　Despite close economic ties, many Chinese also resent Japan over its invasion of their country last century. Beijing rout

Oct 12, 2018
International
Pope accepts Washington cardinal‘s resignation amid scandal

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis accepted the resignation Friday of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl after he became entangled in two major sexual abuse and cover-up scandals and lost the support of many in his flock.　　But in a letter released by Wuerl‘s office, Francis praised his longtime ally and suggested Wuerl had unfairly become a scapegoat, having made some “mistakes” in handling sex abuse cases, but not having covered them up. 　　With the resignation, Wuerl becomes the most prominent

Oct 12, 2018
International
Philippine, Vietnam leaders discuss disputed sea boundaries

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has discussed with Vietnam‘s leader efforts by their countries to delineate their maritime boundaries in the disputed South China Sea, most of which is claimed by China.　　Duterte said Friday, without elaborating, that he told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in a meeting in Indonesia that such boundary talks may take longer because the Philippines is still establishing its continental shelf limit, or the country’s outerm

Oct 12, 2018
International
UK‘s Princess Eugenie marries wine merchant

LONDON (AFP) -- Queen Elizabeth II‘s granddaughter Princess Eugenie married a wine merchant on Friday in a Windsor wedding clouded by complaints over costs and struggling to recapture the magic of past royal nuptials.　The big day for the ninth in line to the throne and Jack Brooksbank -- a “commoner” with blue-blood friends -- comes on the heels of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s fairytale service in May.　That event was watched by adoring masses and followed by months of fawning UK headlines ab

Oct 12, 2018
International
UN panel unveils special report calling for action on climate change

INCHEON -- A UN panel on climate change released a special report Monday calling for urgent action to cut carbon emissions so as to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unveiled the "Summary for Policymakers" of the "Special Report on 1.5 degrees" after unanimously adopting it at last week's meeting in Incheon, west of Seoul.(Yonhap)IPCC Chair Lee Hoe-sung of South Korea said during a press briefing Monday that it's

Oct 8, 2018
International
Japan to skip fleet review ceremony amid flag row with Korea

Japan has decided to skip an international naval event in South Korea next week amid a dispute over its plan to fly the Rising Sun flag, a Seoul government source said Friday.Japan informed South Korea of the decision to not send a warship to the International Fleet Review to open for a five-day run at a military port on Jeju Island on Wednesday.(AP/Yonhap)"This morning, Japan notified South Korea that it won't send a Maritime Self-Defense Forces warship to the Jeju International Fleet Review,"

Oct 5, 2018
International
Korean firms offer aid for quake-hit Indonesia

South Korean companies are joining international efforts to support Indonesia, which was hit by a deadly earthquake and tsunami, amid rising concerns over the safety of survivors in the region, firms said Thursday.KT&G Corp., a major tobacco maker, said it will offer 100 million won ($88,700) to Indonesia, becoming the latest South Korean firm to provide emergency relief aid.The sum will be handed over to the Korean Red Cross for the purchase of relief goods and restoration of damaged areas, it

Oct 4, 2018
International
Korea lifts ban on Russian ship's departure after probe

South Korea on Tuesday lifted a ban on the departure of a blacklisted Russian ship that it seized last week in the southern port city of Busan, following an investigation, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The Sevastopol was barred from leaving the country on Sept. 28 under a UN sanctions resolution after entering the country's biggest port for repairs on Aug. 13, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Sevastopol (Yonhap) "We have lifted the ban on the vessel as in our probe we

Oct 2, 2018
International
Japan not budging on flag dispute: Korean ministry

The Japanese government is maintaining its plan to fly the controversial Rising Sun flag during an upcoming navy event in South Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday. Japan's Self-Defense Forces will send a warship to the International Fleet Review to be held at a military port on Jeju Island next week. (Yonhap) At issue is its plan to hoist the flag, which South Koreans regard as a symbol of Japan's imperialistic past. The matter has caused another diplomatic stand-off between

Oct 2, 2018
International
Japan woman held over keeping baby body in locker ‘for years’

TOKYO (AFP) -- Tokyo police said Tuesday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman suspected of dumping a stillborn baby‘s body in a coin locker, amid reports she had moved the corpse around for as many as five years.　“The suspect... left and abandoned the body of an infant inside the locker,” near Uguisudani Station, a Tokyo police spokeswoman told AFP, with the latest incident occuring around September 13. People walk in the streets of Shinjuku district of Tokyo (Yonhap)　According to local media,

Sept 25, 2018
International
China says can‘t hold US trade talks with ’knife to the throat‘

BEIJING (AFP) -- China said on Tuesday it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like “holding a knife to someone‘s throat”.　Speaking a day after Washington activated tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, vice commerce minister Wang Shouwen said China is open to negotiations but that the two sides must treat each other “equally and with respect”.　“Now that the US has adopted this type of large-scale trade restrictions, they’re

Sept 25, 2018
International
Instagram co-founders resigning: report

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) -- Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are leaving the smartphone photo-sharing service bought by Facebook six years ago for a billion dollars, the New York Times reported late Monday citing unnamed sources.　Systrom and Krieger have resigned from their posts as chief executive and chief technology officer respectively, not giving reasons and saying they planned to take time off, according to the Times.　Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. FILE

Sept 25, 2018
International

The Korea Herald by Herald Corporation

Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu,Seoul, Korea
Online newspaper registration No : Seoul 아03711
Date of registration : 2015.04.28
Publisher. Editor : Kwon Chung-won
Juvenile Protection Manager : Shin Chang Hoon
Tel : 02.727.0114