Top global brands showcase latest models at city’s largest-ever event The country’s largest automotive industry show, the Seoul Motor Show, opens to the public Friday with carmakers vying to catch the attention of the expected 1 million visitors with new models and technologies. The show, which will be held until April 10 at the KINTEX exhibition center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, is being he...

...ical music, spicing up Korean standards with western classical colors. Then, Korea National Ballet’s principal dancer Kim Joo-won and contemporary dancer and choreographer Lee Young-il will be on the...teship,” will bring all artists back on the stage for the two countries’ national folk songs, Korea’s “Arirang” and Australia’s “Waltzing Matilda.” Earlier in the day, a Korean Culture Center will op...

...case against Barry Bonds, former major league infielder Randy Velarde described meeting the slugger’s personal trainer outside spring training ballparks for injections of human growth hormone. Velard... 7 ― 1987 NL Rookie of the Year Benito Santiago, Armando Rios and Bobby Estalella ― but Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew A. Parrella told U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on Wednesday that the governm...

Let to speak on broken election pledge Friday Rep. Park Geun-hye, currently the ruling Grand National Party’s strongest presidential hopeful, on Thursday expressed regret over the government’s decision to chuck President Lee Myung-bak’s election pledge to build an airport in the southeastern part of the country, adding that Korea should keep pushing for it. The GNP’s factional leader and Lee’s ...

... main thrust, which has continued through the Barack Obama speech of March 28 and the following day’s London meeting to create an international “contact group” for clarifying, if possible, allied inte...t a no-fly zone would be impossible until American missiles and aircraft had destroyed all of Libya’s air defenses, thereby rendering the country’s airspace safe for allied planes. (Ironically, the on...

South Korea’s defense minister said Thursday his military was willing to hold low-level military talks with North Korea if the North suggests such a meeting again, but insisted that no progress would...y and strongly punish the enemy’s forces until they surrender,” Kim said. In response to the North’s attacks last year, Kim said, the South’s military has changed its rules of engagement and bolstere...

South Korea’s foreign minister met with the head of the U.N. aviation safety agency to ask for continuing help in stopping North Korea from sending jamming GPS signals across their heavily fortified ...sent an official letter to Pyongyang this month after South Korea expressed concerns over the North’s sending of jamming GPS signals. Benjamin answered that his agency would continue cooperating with...

...ime does not require the complaint of the victim for indictment, according to the court. The court’s decision, however, was in discord with the official recommendation of the National Human Rights Co...ed the clause as unconstitutional did so on the premise that homosexual relations caused the public’s aversion and disrupted military discipline.” A local military court filed a petition to the Const...

Samsung Electronics, the world’s No. 1 television-maker, is expected to be among the global TV manufacturers forced to sell more cell-type LCD panels due to increasing demands from set-makers who are...are sold to the company’s own set-making business division. Earlier in January, DisplaySearch, a U.S.-based market research firm, had said up to 40 percent of Samsung’s shipments to its internal tele...

...ly, solar power is the most likely counterpart of nuclear. And its potential is enormous given its tiny 0.7-percent slice in the global power generation market.” Shares of Seoul-based OCI, the world’s No. 2 maker of polysilicon, a key material of solar cells, went up nearly 55 percent since the beginning of the year and more than 24 percent since Japan’s nuclear crisis. Solar wafer suppler Osung LST’s stocks nearly doubled between Jan. 11 and March 22, while shares of Woongjin Energy, a solar components maker, had risen almost 32 percent in two wee...