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Samsung Lions beat SK Wyverns to start Korean Series

BaseballOct 24, 2012

The Samsung Lions defeated the SK Wyverns 3-1 on Wednesday in the opening game of the South Korean professional baseball final. At Daegu Baseball Stadium, slugger Lee Seung-yeop belted a two-run home run and the Lions‘ bullpen slammed the door shut on the Wyverns to start the best-of-seven Korean Series in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). In 29 previous Korean Series, the team that won th...
Turkey pounds Syria in reprisal for deadly fire

World NewsOct 4, 2012

AKCAKALE (AFP) --Turkey hammered Syrian targets on Thursday in reprisal for deadly cross-border fire that sent tensions soaring in the tinder-box region, prompting international calls for restraint. In Ankara, the Turkish parliament met behind closed doors in an emergency session and agreed to a government request to authorize military operations inside neighboring Syria. But Turkish Deputy Pri...
N.K. test-fired short-range missile last week: source

North KoreaOct 4, 2012

North Korea last week test-fired one short-range missile off its west coast a day after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak presided over a meeting of security ministers, a government source said Thursday. North Korea fired a surface-to-ship missile into the Yellow Sea on Sept. 27 and the launch could be related to the security ministers' meeting, the source said on the condition of anonymity. ...
U.S. military to bring in precision-guided 'Excalibur' shells

DefenseOct 4, 2012

The U.S. military in South Korea plans to bring in precision-guided "Excalibur" shells capable of striking artillery batteries in North Korea by the end of the year, a military source said Thursday. The U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and South Korea's Agency for Defense Development successfully conducted a test-firing of the Excalibur shell in May, the source said. The U.S. forces also plan to addit...
Late Roh's brother to be cleared of latest bribery suspicion

Social affairsOct 4, 2012

CHANGWON (Yonhap News) -- An elder brother of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun is expected to be cleared of suspicions that he is related to tens of billions of won (tens of millions of U.S. dollars) in a businessman's bank account, prosecution sources said Thursday. In May, prosecutors said they had discovered several tens of billions of won in the bank account owned by Roh Geon-pyeong's ...
42 killed in Morocco's worst-ever bus crash

World NewsSept 4, 2012

RABAT (AFP) - A bus plunged into a ravine in the Atlas mountains of southern Morocco early on Tuesday killing at least 42 people, a security official said, in the worst such accident recorded in the kingdom. All the victims were Moroccan, a local official told AFP. "But we are still in the process of identifying the bodies, as well as the injured," he added. The accident took place at around 2:...
Suicide bomber kills 10 at Afghan funeral

World NewsSept 4, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least 10 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan. The deputy police chief for Nangarhar province, Jamil Shamal, says the attack took place on Tuesday in the village of Shagai in the Durbaba district. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but t...
N. Korean beats S. Korean in men's table tennis

Olympic GamesJul 30, 2012

LONDON -- In the first inter-Korean showdown at the London Olympics Monday, North Korean Kim Hyok-bong defeated South Korea's Joo Sae-hyuk in the men's singles table tennis. At London's ExCeL Arena, Kim, ranked 77th in the world, eliminated the 10th-ranked Joo from the third round with a 4-2 (11-5, 6-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8, 15-13) victory. This was Joo's first match in the Olympics. He'd received...
Judges correct in overturning ruling on S. Korean judoka: official

Olympic GamesJul 30, 2012

LONDON -- Judges were correct to change their ruling on South Korean judoka Cho Jun-ho at the London Olympics despite the controversy surrounding the unprecedented overruling of a flag decision, a South Korean official here said Monday. Moon Won-bae, head of the referees' committee at Korea Judo Association, said officials in London made the right decision to award the quarterfinal victory in me...
South Korea issues this year's first red tide warning

Social affairsJul 30, 2012

A warning against a fish-suffocating red tide was issued Monday along parts of South Korea's southern coast, a state fisheries institute said. The National Fisheries Research and Development Institute issued the warning, the first so far this year, at 6 p.m. on waters off southern coastal areas from Namhae to Geoje. Up to 1,500 cochlodinium, or red-tide-causing algae, were found in 1 milliliter...
Lee's former aide denies bribery allegations

Social affairsJul 21, 2012

A former close aide to President Lee Myung-bak was grilled in a marathon interrogation until early Saturday over his suspected bribery from a savings bank chief at the center of a lobbying scandal, prosecutors said. Kim Hee-jung, a former secretary who handled the president's personal affairs, appeared before prosecutors on Friday to face questioning on suspicions of receiving around 100 million...
Motion to dismiss PM scrapped after ruling party’s boycott

PoliticsJul 21, 2012

A controversial motion to dismiss Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik over the mishandling of a military pact with Japan was automatically scrapped on Friday after the ruling Saenuri Party boycotted the vote, officials said. The motion was put to a plenary vote in the 300-member National Assembly earlier in the day, but the vote was declared invalid due to a lack of quorum as the Saenuri Party, which h...
Bloodbath as gunman kills 12 at U.S. Batman screening

World NewsJul 21, 2012

AURORA, Colorado (AFP) -- A masked, black-clad gunman in full body armor opened fire at a packed US movie theater showing the new Batman film Friday in a bloodbath which left at least 12 dead and nearly 60 injured. Chaos erupted when the gunman tossed two tear gas or smoke grenades into the audience at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," then gunned down terrified patrons as they scra...
Batman movie director laments 'savage' massacre

WorldJul 21, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Batman movie director Christopher Nolan lamented Friday the "senseless tragedy' and "unbearably savage" gunning down of 12 movie goers at a Colorado theater screening of "The Dark Knight Rises." The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, who canceled the French premiere of the final part in the Batman trilogy and a media junket in Paris after the shootings, said the "innocent" place he c...
U.S. stresses no hostile intent on N. Korea

Foreign affairsJul 21, 2012

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- The United States government reaffirmed Friday that it has no hostile intent towards North Korea as it seeks peace and stability on the peninsula. "As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States is committed to the maintenance of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and has no hostile intent toward the DPRK," a State Department spokesperson said on the c...