...coupe releasing limited information about its engine and features. The vehicle will be launched on the local market within the month. The Veloster has an asymmetrical layout ― one door on the driver’s side, and two on the passenger side ― marking Hyundai’s first breaking away from traditional designs. The vehicle will be fitted with a 1.6-liter gasoline direct injection engine that puts out 140 brake horsepower. According to the company the vehicle’s ...

... felt any need to engage in dialogue with its South Korean counterpart, blaming Seoul for Wednesday’s breakup of the inter-Korean working-level military talks. Its statement, in which it called the S...said. Local media assumed that the North is reluctant to send Kim Yong-chun, minister of the North’s People’s Armed Forces, for the high-level talks due to his old age, health and other reasons. Exp...

The new leader of the nation’s largest umbrella labor union pledged Thursday that the group will head toward a hard-line stance if no revision is made to the labor union law. “My predecessor, who sa...t fights in order to revise the labor union law and block the parliamentary approval of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement. “The nation’s employment strategy justifies itself in the name of lessenin...

...warnings about the financial crisis from its own top economist and acted like cheerleader for the U.S. economy rather than monitoring it, according to a scathing watchdog report published on Wednesday...U.S. financial system in the run up to the 2008 crisis, according to a 51-page report from the fund’s Independent Evaluation Office. Despite a 2005 warning from the IMF’s chief economist Raghuram Raj...

...e made a habit of planning vacations around the largesse of foreign governments or influential tycoons. But the long-standing practice has come under scrutiny following revelations the prime minister’s family Christmas holiday was funded by Egypt’s government, and the foreign minister vacationed in Tunisia, hitching a ride on a businessman’s jet to avoid violent anti-government protests there. French media had a field day Wednesday, running f...

...d lots more underarm nodes removed or skipped that major surgery. At least 24,000 of the 180,000 U.S. women diagnosed every year with breast cancer have limited spread to lymph nodes. Under the stand...of information in an area that we’ve been waiting for,” Lyman said. The study appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Some details were presented at a medical meeting last...

...als by Aston Villa teammates Darren Bent in the 10th minute and Ashley Young in the 68th. Liverpool’s Daniel Agger had put the Danes ahead in the eighth. The United States’ game at Egypt was canceled... 2009 and 2010 FIFA player of the year, and Ronaldo, the 2008 player of the year. It was the Messi’s goal was his 16th goal in 54 international appearances. “We always enjoy seeing two great players...

...gines with a sales target of 5 trillion won ($4.4 billion) by 2015. The firm, parent of the nation’s biggest oil refiner SK Energy, spun-off of its petroleum and petrochemical operations on Jan. 1. ... maker LG Chem for a share of the car-battery market and has provided products to Hyundai Motor Co.’s BlueOn, the country’s first-ever full-speed electric vehicle introduced last year. As part of its...

...of Lotte Department Store, Lotte Mart and Lotte Super and retail giant GS Group, promoted a total of 172 executives including seven new presidents for its subsidiaries, it said in a statement. Lotte’s founder and former chairman Shin Kyuk-ho will continue to supervise management in Korea and Japan, it added. The founder’s younger son played a key role last year in leading the group to record high sales of 61 trillion won ($54.7 billion), Lotte said, by bolstering operations at home and abroad. Shin Dong-bin, 56, gra...