Hosts South Korea are likely to use a back three system against Argentina for their second Group A match at the FIFA U-20 World Cup here on Tuesday.The starting lineup released by FIFA shows South Korea will deploy three central defenders -- Lee Sang-min, Jeong Tae-wook, and Kim Seung-woo -- at the back, with Lee You-hyeon and Yoon Jong-gyu playing as wing backs, in the match against Argentina at Jeonju World Cup Stadium in Jeonju, some 240 kilometers south of Seoul.The match will start at 8 p.m

Soccer May 23, 2017

South Korea and Japan have agreed to resolve a row over a 2015 deal on Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women in a future-oriented manner, President Moon Jae-in's special envoy said Saturday.Moon Hee-sang relayed that Japan said that it understood South Koreans' negative sentiment toward the controversial deal reached by the former South Korean government and Japan.His remarks came after returning from his four-day trip to Japan where he delivered Moon's letter to Japanese Prime Mini

Diplomatic Circuit May 20, 2017

Corporate deposits held by South Korean banks decreased by the largest amount in the first three months of the year, central bank data showed Saturday, as businesses are moving to expand investment amid an upturn in Asia's fourth-largest economy.Total bank savings by local businesses reached 367.5 trillion won ($327.4 billion) as of end-March, down 15.9 trillion won, or 4.2 percent from three months earlier, according to the data compiled by the Bank of Korea.It is the largest on-quarter decline

Industry May 20, 2017

Iran says incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is ahead of his nearest competitor in an initial count of votes in the election. Interior Ministry deputy minister Ali Asghar Ahmadi told journalists in a televised news conference Saturday morning that over 40 million Iranians voted in Friday's election. That puts turnout above 70 percent.Ahmadi says the initial vote count has the moderate cleric Rouhani with 14.6 million votes. Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi has 10.1 million votes.Ahmadi says the In

World News May 20, 2017

Military tensions on the Korean peninsula should not prevent the nuclear-armed North sending a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South, according to the head of the Games organising committee Lee Hee-Beom.The former diplomat and trade minister also said the heavily-fortified border between the two Koreas would be opened to allow any North Korean team to make a highly symbolic road crossing into the South.Because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, the

Olympic Games May 20, 2017

North Korea on Saturday unveiled footage which it claims backs its latest revelation that South Korean and U.S. spy agencies plotted to kill its leader Kim Jong-un using a biochemical substance.North Korea's propaganda outlet Uriminjokkiri TV filed the footage containing testimony from what it insists is a terrorist and pieces of evidence about an alleged terror attempt against Kim.orth Korea claimed on May 5 that a terrorist group supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and South Kor

North Korea May 20, 2017

South Korea's presidential envoy Hong Seok-hyun met with U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain on Friday to outline the policy of President Moon Jae-in on the alliance with the U.S., North Korea and other issues.Hong was also scheduled to meet later Friday with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry as part of a series of meetings he has been holding since arriving in Washington on Wednesday on a mission to reaffirm and further strengthen the alliance under th

North Korea May 20, 2017

The U.S. defense chief warned Friday that a military solution to the standoff with North Korea would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale," while the North vowed to rapidly strengthen its nuclear-strike capability as long as it faces a "hostile'' U.S. policy. North Korea tested a longer-range missile last weekend, which experts say was a significant advance for a weapons program that aims at having a nuclear-tipped missile that can strike America. The test triggered a new U.S.-backed push for a f

North Korea May 20, 2017

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Friday that the U.S. and its partners are working to find a non-military solution to the problem of North Korea because military options would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale.""We're going to continue to breed the same kind of pressure internationally that we've been trying to. We're going to continue to work the issue. As you know, if this goes to a military solution, it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale," Mattis said."So our effort is

North Korea May 20, 2017