...reshold. Despite featuring no film luminaries and drawing much smaller audiences than the festival's official selections, these smartphone flicks show how amateurs can take advantage of technology to...ts screened at Haeundae Beach on Saturday, a recent college graduate humorously depicted her family's collaborative cooking time during Chuseok, the biggest autumn holiday in Korea, unlike many other ...

... to inform ourselves about the situation." He said he would be looking at the operation of betting and data from the Swedish Academy which awards the prize. Academy member Per Waestberg told Sweden's TT news agency that he did not believe in a leak. The daily Dagens Nyheter recalled that rumours of a leak had arisen in 2008, when Ladbrokes stopped taking bets on winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cle...

...nterrogation is expected to widen investigations into the scandal including President Lee Myung-bak’s key aides. Entering the Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office around 10 a.m., Shin told reporters: “I... be here to be investigated.” Shin was a newspaper reporter for about 20 years, before joining Lee’s presidential campaign team. The prosecutorial investigation began following a disclosure by SLS C...

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner Friday extended a formal invitation for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to address a joint session of Congress next week, citing the importance of the time-honore.... If he accepts the invitation, Lee would become the first South Korean president to address the U.S. Congress in 13 years. The late Kim Dae-jung delivered a speech to Congress in 1998. Lee is expec...

North Korea warned on Saturday it could take physical action against South Korea in response to the South's "ceaseless provocative war moves." The (North) Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang's state-run media, said the Korean Peninsula was at "the crossroads of dialogue or confrontation and peace or war." It accused South Korea of intruding into North Korean waters in the Yellow Sea and of sen...

...job much harder. Lower sovereign credit ratings tend to push up countries' borrowing costs, a major concern for those needing to raise fresh funding on nervous debt markets. Fitch said it cut Italy's credit rating by one notch to A+ from AA- with a negative outlook on Friday, following downgrades by Moody's and Standard & Poor's. "The downgrade reflects the intensification of the euro zone crisis that constitutes a significant financial and economic shock which has weakened Italy's sovereign risk prof...

... The government, however, decided the reform and division would require only 10.26 trillion won, thus needing only 4 trillion won in government support. The NACF currently has only about 270 billion won invested in its retail business. That amount will increase to 8 trillion won when the planned reform is completed in 2016, while also expanding and strengthening markets for the country's farmers.

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chipmaker, said Friday that it is teaming up with Micron Technology Inc. of the U.S. to develop technology to produce a high-performance memory chip. Samsung has formed a consortium with Micron Technology, the U.S.'s largest chipmaker, to jointly develop a so-called hybrid memory cube technique which stacks chips on to...

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Olympic football team pounded Uzbekistan 5-1 at Seoul World Cup Stadium Friday, in the opening leg of the rare football friendly doubleheader in the nation's capital. Five different players got on the score sheet for the home team. Kim Tae-hwan scored just two minutes in, and the rout was on. Yun Il-rok and Park Jong-woo added a goal apiece in the first h...

Moody's on Friday downgraded its credit ratings for a dozen British lenders, including state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB, due to the removal and curtailment of government financial ...necessary. The announcement comes as the European Union seeks swift recapitalisation of the region's banks to avert the eurozone debt crisis spreading across borders. Moody's had warned in May that ...

...exceed market forecasts on the back of brisk smartphone sales and a weak local currency. The world’s largest technology company said in a statement that profit during the July and September period wa...,” said Ahn Sung-ho, an analyst with Hanwha Securities. He added that the delayed release of Apple’s iPhone 5 also seemed to have played to Samsung’s advantage. The semiconductor department was expe...