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Publication: Yonhap News Agency

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 52 mins ago - 2 reports

Unification minister urges North to stop provocations

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's unification minister called on North Korea Monday to drop provocative actions and come to the bargaining table to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.The North fired a short-range missile into the East Sea on ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Seoul, missile, Korean Peninsula, Barrage Fire, Hostile

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Korean conductor wins second place at Portuguese competition

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean conductor has recently tied for second place at an international conducting competition held in Portugal.Yoon Hyun-jin won the "Finalist Award" along with another finalist at the 2013 International Competition ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Lisbon, Seoul, Portugal

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

S. Korea, U.S. to resume talks on revision of nuclear accord next month

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States are expected to resume formal negotiations early next month aimed at revising a bilateral civilian nuclear accord, a government source said Monday, in what would be the first meeting since the ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Nuclear, South Korea, Seoul, United States

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Banks' capital adequacy ratio down in Q1

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks saw their capital adequacy ratios fall in the first quarter from three months earlier, as their risk-weighted assets increased on more lending to smaller firms and dollar-denominated debts, the financial regulator ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Seoul, South Korea

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Sales of midsize sedans hit lowest level since 2000

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- Sales of midsize sedans fell to their lowest level since 2000 as South Koreans preferred to drive subcompact vehicles or sport utility vehicles, data showed Monday.Carmakers sold a total of 63,804 units of midsize sedans in the ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association, South Korea, Seoul

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Suncheon expo greets 1.5 mln visitors

SUNCHEON, South Korea, May 20 (Yonhap) -- The 184-day Suncheon Bay Garden exposition has attracted nearly 1.5 million visitors since it opened on April 16, the event's organizer said Monday.The number of visitors hit the 1 million mark on Wednesday, while ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

United States Government

United States Government

U.S. sets goal of expanding talks with N. Korea for coming year

By Lee Chi-dongWASHINGTON, May 19 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. government aims to expand dialogue with North Korea in fiscal 2014 to improve the communist country's "international standing," according to the State Department's report to Congress.The policy target ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, United States, United States Government

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Park calls for 'grand labor-management compromise' to raise employment rate

SEOUL, March 20 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye called Monday for smoother labor-management relations, saying they are a key condition for raising the country's employment rate to 70 percent, one of her major campaign promises ahead of last year's ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Park Geun-Hye, Seoul, Netherlands

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

(LEAD) N. Korea fires short-range missile into sea for 2nd day: official

(ATTN: UPDATES with quotes, details; AMENDS headline)SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, a Seoul military official said, a day after firing three short-range guided missiles off the Korean Peninsula's ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 20 hours ago]

Entities: missile, North Korea, Seoul

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 4 reports

S. Korea deploys Israeli missiles to protect border islands

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has placed Israeli precision-guided missiles capable of striking North Korean coastal artillery on its Yellow Sea border islands, a military official said Sunday."Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 19 2013]

Entities: missile, South Korea, North Korea

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 3 reports

Park honors May 1980 pro-democracy movement, calls for national unity

GWANGJU, May 18 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye on Saturday took part in honoring the 33rd anniversary of a popular movement in the southern city of Gwangju that acted as the watershed in the nation's transition into a democracy and said the event ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 18 2013]

Entities: Democracy, Pro-democracy, Military Junta, Protesters, Chun Doo-hwan

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

(LEAD) Truck spills poisonous hydrofluoric acid

(ATTN: CHANGES dateline; ADDS second spill in Gunsan in last 4 paras)SIHEUNG/GUNSAN, South Korea, May 18 (Yonhap) -- A large container of hydrofluoric acid fell off of a cargo truck and spilled onto a road in Siheung near an industrial complex southwest ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 18 2013]

Entities: HYDROFLUORIC ACID, Date Line, Acid, Seoul

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Park's spokeswoman Kim Haing said the presidential office of "Cheong Wa Dae is keeping a close watch on the situation."

N. Korea fires projectile into sea for 2nd day [Published Yonhap News Agency - 5 hours ago]

...and their launchers have recently been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands," an official for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. "They can destroy (North Korea's) underground facilities and can pursue and strike moving targets."

S. Korea deploys Israeli missiles to protect border islands [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 19 2013]

...afternoon, from its east coast toward a northeasterly direction," defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said at a hurriedly called news briefing. "They appeared to have been short-range missiles rather than mid- to long-range ones like Musudan."

(2nd LD) N. Korea launches three short-range missiles: defense ministry [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 18 2013]

"All information has been shared real time between the presidential office and the defense ministry" Cheong Wa Dae spokeswoman Kim Haing said

N. Korea launches three short-range missiles: defense ministry [Published Yonhap News Agency - May 18 2013]

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