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[PyeongChang 2018] PyeongChang volunteers struggle with crude working conditions
Social affairs
Feb 5, 2018
Some volunteers quit or launched a boycott, citing lack of support and basic necessities
[Video] 3 must-eat dishes in Gangwon Province
Food&Beverage
Feb 5, 2018
[PyeongChang 2018] For those heading to Gangwon Province, check out The Korea Herald's list of must-eat local dishes.
Cheong Wa Dae welcomes planned visit by NK's titular head of state
North Korea
Feb 5, 2018
South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Monday welcomed North Korea's plan to send its nominal head of state as leader of a high-level delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, saying it shows the communist state's sincere efforts to improve inter-Korean ties."We believe it reflects North Korea's determination to improve the South Korea-North Korea relationship and make the Olympic Games successful and that the North has shown sincere and earnest efforts toward such an end,"
[PyeongChang 2018] Joint Korean hockey team players separated at athletes' village
More sports
Feb 5, 2018
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Members of the joint Korean women's hockey team will stay in separate apartment buildings inside their athletes' village during the PyeongChang Winter Games.The joint team played its much-anticipated first match against Sweden in an exhibition game on Sunday in Incheon, just west of Seoul. After dropping the game 3-1, the team traveled more than 230 kilometers east to Gangneung, a sub-host city which will stage all ice events, and checked in to Gangneung Olympic Villa
NK offers to send art troupe to S. Korea by ferry this week
North Korea
Feb 5, 2018
PAJU/SEOUL -- A North Korean art troupe will arrive by ferry in South Korea this week, on a trip that will mark the first by a North Korean vessel in years, Seoul officials said Monday.The North Korean ship, Mangyongbong-92, is scheduled to arrive at the country's Mukho port in the eastern city of Donghae at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the officials from the unification ministry said.The remarks came hours after the communist state proposed using the 9,700-ton ship to transport its 140-member art troupe, wh
[Video] Taking KTX train to Olympics
Olympic Games
Feb 5, 2018
The PyeongChang Winter Olympics are just around the corner, with opening ceremonies kicking off Friday.For those who have never been to the Gangwon Province, where the Olympic and Paralympic Games are to take place, the easiest way to get to the region will be via KTX trains.Shot by Lim Jeong-yeo / Edited by Lim Jeong-yeo Gyeonggang Line KTX, the bullet train to Gangwon Province, launched its service on Dec. 22, 2017. The line was built specifically for the Olympics, and cuts down travel time fr
Moon considering meeting one-on-one with NK's ceremonial leader: Cheong Wa Dae
North Korea
Feb 5, 2018
President Moon Jae-in is considering holding a one-on-one meeting with North Korea's ceremonial head of state set to visit South Korea this week to attend the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, officials said Monday.The North notified the South on Sunday night that Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, will visit the South from Friday to Sunday as head of a high-level delegation to the Winter Olympics set to kick off Friday. (Yonhap)"President Moon will be meeting
[PyeongChang 2018] 'Super Bowl Monday' as PyeongChang hosts watch party
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Feb 5, 2018
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- It was "Super Bowl Monday" here in PyeongChang on the first day of the working week.On a frigid morning in the mountains in the eastern part of South Korea on Monday, fans of American football got to watch the sport's biggest annual event in the comfort of the PyeongChang press center -- with some free snacks to boot.If you were in PyeongChang to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics or if you were working behind the scenes to organize the event, and you were desperate to ca
[Weather] Seoul stays at -11.6 C; cold eases off from Wednesday
Social affairs
Feb 5, 2018
Cold wave advisories are in place in general due to a drop to as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, as of 6 a.m., Monday.The weather is to remain frigid through Wednesday, the weather agency said. (Yonhap)Morning temperatures were minus 11.6 C in Seoul, minus 9.6 C in Incheon, minus 11.2 C in Suwon, minus 8.4 C in Jeonju and minus 7.7 C in Busan, with wind chills bringing temperatures as low as minus 16.6 C. Monday’s daytime highs are expected to hover between minus
Advertisement, telecom stocks to likely benefit most from Olympics
Markets
Feb 5, 2018
Advertising firm Cheil Worldwide's stocks were predicted to benefit the most from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics thanks to its business projects for the games, a survey of securities firms showed Monday.Cheil Worldwide was picked as the expected beneficiary of the Olympics by six of the 10 securities firms that participated in the survey by Yonhap. The securities companies were asked to name three stocks that they saw as gaining the most from the sports event that opens Friday."Cheil
SK Telecom's Q4 net jumps 39.1% on increased competitiveness in Internet businesses
Technology
Feb 5, 2018
South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Monday its fourth-quarter net profit rose 39.1 percent from a year earlier due mainly to increased competitiveness in Internet businesses.Net income reached 660.6 billion won ($606 million) in the October-December period, compared with a profit of 474.7 billion won for the same period the previous year, the company said in a regulatory filing.For the whole of 2017, net profit came to 2.65 trillion won, up 60 percent from 2016.Operating profit
Death toll from hospital fire in southern Korea rises to 43
Social affairs
Feb 5, 2018
MIRYANG -- The death toll from a fire at a hospital in Miryang, a city in southeastern Korea, rose to 43 after two more elderly survivors died in a hospital on Monday, the local government said.An 83-year-old man had been treated for pneumonia at a nearby hospital since the fire on Jan. 26 at Sejong Hospital in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province. He died around 7:40 a.m. (Yonhap)Another man, 85, who had been hospitalized at a separate hospital following the blaze, died around 2:40 a.m. after bei
15 lawmakers to defect from People's Party
Politics
Feb 5, 2018
Fifteen lawmakers have decided to leave the center-left People's Party in protest against its leader Ahn Cheol-soo's push for a merger with the center-right Bareun Party, party officials said Monday.The renegades, including Reps. Chun Jung-bae, Chung Dong-young and Cho Bae-sook, will launch their own new party, named the Party for Democracy and Peace, on Tuesday.Their defections will reduce the number of People's Party lawmakers to 24.Three proportional representative lawmakers -- Reps. Lee Sang
Korea's current account surplus narrows to $4.09b for December
Economy
Feb 5, 2018
South Korea's current account surplus narrowed in December last year from a year earlier due mainly to a sharp rise in the deficit in the service account, central bank data showed Monday. The country's current account surplus reached $4.09 billion in December, down from a surplus of $6.96 billion a year earlier, according to the preliminary data from the Bank of Korea.It marked the 70th consecutive month of a current account surplus, which started in March 2012. The services account deficit wide
S. Korean, US nuke envoys discuss ways to resume denuclearization talks
North Korea
Feb 5, 2018
The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States discussed ways to channel the reconciliatory mood created by North Korea's participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics into resumption of talks aimed at "peacefully" resolving the nuclear stalemate, the foreign ministry said Monday.Lee Do-hoon, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and his US counterpart, Joseph Yun, agreed to maintain close cooperation to make the Feb. 9-25 PyeongChang Olympics a pea
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