South Korea’s under-23 football coach Kim Hak-bum said Monday diversifying scoring options will be important for his team’s success at the upcoming Asian Games. South Korea's 20-man squad for the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games includes five forwards and two of them -- Son Heung-min and Hwang Ui-jo -- are overage players known as wild cards. The men’s football tournament at the Asian Games is op...

South Korea boasts the world’s No. 1-ranked men‘s sabre fencing team, one that its most senior member, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Kim Jung-hwan, believes has the perfect balance of veteran savvy and youthful exuberance. Kim and his team won the world title last month in China for South Korea’s second consecutive championship. Kim added an individual gold medal at the same event. South Korea...

South Korea women's national football team midfielder Lee Min-a said Monday she is eager to win gold at the upcoming Asian Games. Lee, who plays for Japan’s INAC Kobe Leonessa, is one of the 20 players who will compete in the women‘s football competition at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games in Indonesia. It will be her first appearance at an Asiad since she started representing the country in 2...

The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, stressed the importance of patience in resolving difficult issues, like the North Korea nuclear standoff, when she met with Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon on Monday, Lee‘s office said. Mogherini made the remark after Lee expressed gratitude for the EU’s continued support for Seoul‘s efforts to bring permanent peace on the Korean Penins...

President Moon Jae-in on Monday appointed three new justices to the Supreme Court in a ceremony held at his office Cheong Wa Dae. The appointment ceremony came nearly two weeks after parliament endorsed all three new justices on July 26, following their confirmation hearings held earlier that month. The three new Supreme Court justices are Kim Seon-soo, Noh Jeong-hee and Lee Dong-won. From l...

JINCHEON, North Chungcheong Province -- Having shocked the world with an Olympic gold medal two years ago, South Korean epee fencer Park Sang-young says he's excited for a fresh challenge at this month's Asian Games. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, Park, then an unheralded fencer at age 21, rallied from a 14-10 deficit against Geza Imre of Hungary in the final, winning five straight ...

Nine suspected North Korean coal shipments are under investigation on allegations of having entered South Korean ports in violation of UN Security Council sanctions, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday. Concerns have flared recently that South Korean entities could face US sanctions following reports that vessels carrying North Korean coal entered South Korean ports in breach of a UN ban on ...

Korea will send a second group of disaster relief workers to flood-stricken villages in southern Laos this week, with the first batch set to return home in the coming days, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday. (Yonhap) On Tuesday, the Korea Disaster Relief Team will depart for the Southeast Asian country hit by floods, which were triggered by a dam collapse on July 23. The team consists of 15 ...

Opposition parties on Monday called for the extension of a special probe into an opinion rigging scandal as a high-profile provincial governor appeared for questioning about his alleged involvement in manipulating Internet comments to sway public opinion on key issues. But the ruling Democratic Party defended South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo, accusing opposition parties of staging p...

South Korea called on North Korea on Monday to further accelerate its denuclearization process while asking the United States to faithfully implement its promises of rewarding the communist nation. “We are asking North Korea to speed up its denuclearization process. And to the US, we are asking that it show sincere efforts about corresponding measures that North Korea is demanding,” Cheong Wa Da...

The defense ministry launched a team Monday to prepare for the creation of a new command to supplant the scandal-ridden defense intelligence unit, long dogged by allegations of political interference. The launch is in line with President Moon Jae-in's order last Friday to dissolve and reorganize the Defense Security Command following revelations that it explored the possibility of imposing marti...

"이 더운 날씨에 통풍도 안 되는 청바지를 입고 수십 개의 계단을 오르다 보면 숨이 턱턱 막힙니다. 여름용으로 시원한 하의 유니폼을 제공하거나 하의는 무조건 청바지를 입으라는 복장 규정을 없애야 합니다." 맥도날드에서 수년째 배달 일을 한다는 한 라이더는 6일 오전 서울 종로의 한국 맥도날드 본사 앞에서 헬멧을 쓰고 선글라스, 마스크로 얼굴을 가린 채 마이크를 잡았다. 이 라이더는 "맥도날드가 라이더에게 반소매인 여름용 상의 유니폼은 지급하지만, 하의는 무조건 청바지를 입도록 한다"며 "팔과 무릎 보호대까지 의무착용해야 하는 상황에서 너무 가혹한 지침"이라고 지적했다. (사진=연합뉴스) 그는 자신의 신상이 회사에 알려질까 두려워하면서도 맥도날드 라이더의 가혹한 업무환경을 알리기 위해 지난달 말부터 ...

"비구름대가 이렇게까지 발달해 기습 폭우로 이어질 줄은 기상청도 미처 예측하지 못했습니다." 6일 강원 영동지역에 쏟아진 최고 260㎜의 기습 폭우는 기상청도 전날까지 미처 예측하지 못했다. 특히 이날 오전 3∼4시 사이 시간당 93㎜의 기록적인 폭우가 쏟아진 강릉은 밤 사이 도로는 물론 농경지, 건물 등이 침수되는 등 온통 물바다로 변했다. (사진=연합뉴스) 강릉의 시간당 93㎜는 2002년 8월 31일 태풍 '루사' 당시 시간당 100.5㎜에 이은 역대 2위 기록이다. 이 때문에 주민들은 '루사'의 악몽을 떠올리기도 했다. 그러나 기상청은 지난 5일 오후까지 영동을 비롯한 도 전역에 5∼50㎜의 비가 내릴 것으로 예측했다. 물론 천둥·번개를 동반해 시간당 20㎜의 비가 내리는 곳이 있을 것...