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China weighs whether to retaliate over Trump’s tariff hikes
Industry
Mar 2, 2018
BEIJING -- After threatening to retaliate if President Donald Trump raised trade barriers, Chinese leaders need to decide whether his hikes in steel and aluminum tariffs justify starting a fight that might disrupt access to one of China’s biggest markets.Beijing had no immediate reaction Friday to Trump’s plan for tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum. Asian stock markets fell amid talk of a “trade war.“.Chinese leaders need to weigh the need to back up threats with action ag
Kospi tumbles on renewed US protectionism threats
Markets
Mar 2, 2018
South Korea‘s top-tier stock market Kospi retreated 1 percent on Friday, while the local currency strengthened, in part on fears over heightening tariff threats by US President Donald Trump triggering a possible trade war.On Friday, the Kospi came close to breaching 2,400 mark by closed at 2,402.16, down 1 percent compared to the previous trading day. The market maintained a losing streak for three consecutive trading days since Tuesday. Korean stock markets closed on Thursday for a nation
Korean steel industry readies countermeasures against Trump’s tariff
Industry
Mar 2, 2018
Korean steelmakers said Friday that heavy tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump on all imported steel products would inevitably hurt their businesses.On Thursday, Trump told reporters that the US would impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel products after meeting with CEOs from US steel companies. The president is expected to sign an order to impose the tariffs next week. South Korea is the third-biggest steel exporter to US, after Canada and Brazil.Expressing disappointment, steel
Man detained for burning bar in Busan
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
Busan Dongnae Police Station arrested a male suspect in his 60s on charges of setting a bar on fire Friday. The arson suspect reportedly broke into the bar after smashing the window with a brick and set it on fire with a lighter, causing financial damage worth 20 million won ($18,400) at 10:40 p.m. on Feb. 25, according to police. (Yonhap)He is also accused of threatening the female owner of the bar with a weapon the day before the crime.Police believe that the suspect burned the place out of an
[Newsmaker] Govt. seeks to take Ko Un’s poetry out of textbooks amid sexual misconduct allegations
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
The government has begun to take steps to remove works by world-renowned South Korean poet Ko Un from school textbooks amid growing sexual misconduct allegations, multiple industry sources said Friday. The Ministry of Education sent an official letter earlier in the day to the Korea Authorized & Approved Textbooks, in which it requested the association to ask its member publishers if they have plans to delete any of the content in the textbook that belongs to a person of “public controversy.” Th
Creditors move to sell Kumho Tire to China’s Doublestar
Industry
Mar 2, 2018
South Korea’s troubled tire maker Kumho Tire will take steps to sell its majority stake to China’s Qingdao Doublestar, a state-run creditor bank said Friday. Korea Development Bank Senior Vice President Lee Dae-hyun speaks at a press conference on its deal with China‘s Double Star over the fate of Kumho Tire, in Yeouido, Seoul, Friday. (Yonhap)According to Korea Development Bank, it will push ahead with a plan to sell it to the Chinese tiremaker for 646.3 billion won ($597.4 million) and close a
Installation of comfort women statue in front of university thwarted
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
The installation of a “comfort women” statue in front of a university in Seoul was thwarted right before the unveiling ceremony on Thursday, as the university and students protested its installation.Seoul’s Mapo District Council planned to place a comfort women statue in front of Hongik University on the 99th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement of 1919, but they failed after students and faculty members from the school stopped the forklift truck carrying the statue from proceeding f
[Weekender] Korea faces possible new danger: earthquakes
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
Following a 4.8-magnitude earthquake detected near the coastal city of Pohang last month, experts are again voicing concerns that the Korean Peninsula may no longer be safe from strong shock waves.The earthquake was an aftershock of the 5.4-magnitude earthquake that occurred in the same city in November last year. While no lives were lost in the November earthquake, some 1,500 residents in the area were left homeless. The quake is creating concerns as experts have repeatedly predicted the likeli
[Herald Interview] Despite urgency, quest to unearth active faults face hurdles
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
Expert calls for public support on 25-year project to trace source of another earthquake in future
Popularity of raw noodles grows
Industry
Mar 2, 2018
With continued demand for instant noodles, South Korean retailers recorded an increase of sales of raw products, data showed Friday. Pulmuone’s noodle products (Pulmuone)One major food company in that business is Pulmuone, which saw 844 million won ($780,000) of sales of ready-to-cook raw noodle products last year, 11.4 percent jump from the previous year. Pulmuone currently tops the local raw noodle market with a 27 percent market share as of 2017. While udon noodles -- a 230 billion won marke
[Trending] #Daeboreum
Culture
Mar 2, 2018
If you stroll down the street tonight, you’d better stop for a while, raise your head and make a wish. Today is “Jeongwol Daeboreum” or “Daeboreum,” which means the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. It is one of Korea’s traditional holidays.To mark the special day, the word Daeboreum featured on Naver’s trending keyword bar Friday morning, while over 3,000 tweets were posted on the social media platform on the same day.Ancestors in the nation were believed to celebrate the day by wishing a
[From the scene] Aftershocks stir up worries at schools as new semester starts
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
Worries grow among parents over safety of children in a country that lacks quake-resilient schools
Military preps probe on 1980 Gwangju incident under special law
Social affairs
Mar 2, 2018
Korea's defense ministry said Friday it will launch a task force on implementing a special law on finding the truth behind the military's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in 1980.The National Assembly passed the legislation earlier this week, which calls for the creation of an independent fact-finding committee as many people here want to know who was responsible for the use of military force against civilians protesting against the junta of Chun Doo-hwan.The Gwangju upris
Korean steel exports to take hit on proposed US tariffs
Markets
Mar 2, 2018
Korea avoided the worst case scenario of being slapped with duties of up to 53 percent on steel exports to the United States, but it will invariably take a hit if fresh duties are put in place, industry experts said Friday.US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would impose uniform 25 percent duties on imported steel to protect US producers, with a formal decision due next week.The announcement could not have come at a worse time for Korean steel mills already struggling with rising
S. Korea previously sent special envoys to NK for summits, nuclear issue
North Korea
Mar 2, 2018
As President Moon Jae-in has unveiled a plan to send a special envoy to North Korea, attention is being paid to what purposes South Korea dispatched special emissaries in the past.Since the 2000s, the South has sent special envoys to North Korea either to prepare for inter-Korean summits or to help resolve North Korea's nuclear issue.Moon said Thursday during a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump that he will send a special envoy to the North. The main topic of that conversation wa
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