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November 15, 2019 Defense

Esper says US will seek Japan's efforts to resolve GSOMIA issue: Cheong Wa Dae

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper told South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday he will try to persuade Japan to "smoothly" resolve the dispute over the two neighbors' military information-sharing ...

S. Korea shakes up batting order for crucial match vs. Mexico

TOKYO -- South Korea will send out a new-looking batting lineup in an important Olympic qualifying game against Mexico later Friday in Tokyo. South Korean manager Kim Kyung-moon announced changes ah...

November 15, 2019
Baseball
BTS records $116.6m in sales from 'Love Yourself: Speak Yourself' tour

K-pop superstars BTS clinched $116.6 million in sales through its sensational "Love Yourself: Speak Yourself" world tour, Billboard said Friday. Under the globe-trotting concert tour, BTS staged 20 ...

November 15, 2019
Music
Police: Lee Chun-jae is behind all Hwaseong murders

SUWON -- Police said Friday they have reached a provisional conclusion that all 10 of the Hwaseong serial murders were committed by the same man. Lee Chun-jae, who is serving life imprisonment for a...

November 15, 2019
Social affairs
Slowing exports weigh on S. Korea's economic growth: ministry

South Korea's weak investment and slowing exports have undermined its economic growth, the finance ministry said Friday. "Overall industrial output and consumption are on the rise, but a sluggish tr...

November 15, 2019
Economy
Seoul stocks open almost flat on lack of market momentum

South Korean stocks opened almost flat on Friday as investors attempted to cash in recent gains amid a lack of market momentum. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index inched down 0.91 point...

November 15, 2019
Finance
S. Korea, US hold annual defense ministers' talks

South Korea and the United States held annual defense ministers' talks in Seoul on Friday as the allies face tricky issues such as a soon-to-expire intelligence-sharing pact between Seoul and Tokyo a...

November 15, 2019
Defense
CJ ENM, Walt Disney neck-and-neck at S. Korean box office

Two film distributing powerhouses, CJ ENM and Walt Disney Company Korea, were neck-and-neck at the South Korean box office in the first 10 months of this year, data showed Friday. In January to Octo...

November 15, 2019
Industry
S. Korean football attackers hold themselves accountable for 2nd straight 0-0 draw

BEIRUT -- South Korean attacking aces Son Heung-min and Hwang Ui-jo took the blame for their team's second straight scoreless draw in the World Cup qualifying campaign on Thursday. "We had a brief, ...

November 15, 2019
Soccer
Moon meets Pentagon chief at Cheong Wa Dae

South Korean President Moon Jae-in met with US Defense Secretary Mark Esper at Cheong Wa Dae on Friday, as the Pentagon chief has openly pressed Seoul to renew a military information-sharing agreemen...

November 15, 2019
Foreign Affairs
S. Korea, Japan to hold working-level talks ahead of GSOMIA expiry

South Korea and Japan were set to hold working-level diplomatic talks on Friday ahead of the planned expiration of a military intelligence-sharing pact between the two neighbors. Kim Jung-han, direc...

November 15, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Samsung's smartphone share in Japan nearly triples in Q3

Samsung Electronics Co.'s share in the Japanese smartphone market nearly tripled in the third quarter from a year earlier thanks to robust sales of new models, industry data showed Monday. The Korea...

November 15, 2019
Industry
N. Korea says it sent ultimatum to S. Korea over Mount Kumgang project

North Korea sent an ultimatum to South Korea earlier this week that it will unilaterally remove the South-built facilities from its Mount Kumgang resort unless Seoul tears them down on its own, Pyong...

November 15, 2019
North Korea
NK nuke envoy voices willingness to meet US, but presses for solution

North Korea's top nuclear envoy said Thursday he is willing to meet with his US counterpart if Washington unveils a fundamental solution to the nuclear impasse by a year-end deadline. Kim Myong-gil ...

November 14, 2019
North Korea
Mamamoo drops 2nd full-length album, 'reality in BLACK'

Roaring four-piece K-pop girl band Mamamoo dropped its second full-length album, "reality in BLACK," Thursday, returning to smash the music scene. The 11-track album, the group's first full-length s...

November 14, 2019
Music

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