Anti-government protesters torched dozens of cars and set fire to storefronts during daylong clashes with riot police across central Paris on Saturday, as thousands took part in fresh "yellow vest" protests against high fuel taxes.Officers responded with tear gas after being targeted by protesters hurling rocks and other projectiles on the third weekend of demonstrations which have morphed into a broader rebuke of French President Emmanuel Macron.Smoke engulfed several shopping districts as the

Samsung BioLogics CEO Kim Tae-han on Friday apologized to the shareholders for inconveniences caused by the recent accounting fraud ruling issued by South Korea’s Securities and Futures Commission, pledging to do his best to minimize damage to the firm’s valuation and business activities. “We apologize for any inconvenience that you have suffered in exercising property rights as a result of the suspension of trading of shares due to the SFC’s unwillingness to recognize the Company’s transparency

The Supreme Court has upheld lower courts' rejection of former President Chun Doo-hwan's request to be tried in Seoul, instead of Gwangju, in a defamation case involving his memoir, court officials said Friday.The top court made the ruling on Thursday after lower courts had refused to accept Chun's demand that the jurisdiction of his case be changed from Gwangju to Seoul because he cannot travel to the southwestern city, about 330 kilometers away, due to old age, according to the officials.(Yonh

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the lower court’s life sentence ruling for Lee Young-hak, 36, who was found guilty of murdering his 14-year-old daughter’s friend. The court also denied Lee’s claims that he was mentally unstable at the time of the crime. Lee Young-hak, 36, who was found guilty of murdering his 14-year-old daughter’s friend, heads to court, Nov. 17, 2017 (Yonhap)In September 2017, Lee was charged with homicide of a minor, indecent acts using force and abandonment of the body.

Police sought an arrest warrant for a 74-year-old man on Wednesday for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a vehicle carrying the head of the country's top court earlier this week, they said.The move came a day after police apprehended the man, identified only by the surname Nam, on-site for hurling the firebomb at the car carrying Supreme Court Chief Justice Kim Meong-su as it was entering the court building in Seoul. '(Yonhap)One of the front tires caught fire, but it was immediately put out by sec

Though she’s a fictional character, Kim Ji-young is a symbolic figure in Korea. It seems her status will be even more elevated as novel “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982” recently became a million seller. The novel, written by Cho Nam-joo in 2016, has sold more than 1 million copies, publisher Minumsa announced Tuesday. It is now the first million-selling Korean novel since Shin Kyung-sook’s “Please Look After Mom” in 2009. Writer Cho Nam-joo (Minumsa)Since its publication, “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982” has

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stephen Hillenburg, who used his dual loves of drawing and marine biology to spawn the absurd undersea world of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” has died, Nickelodeon announced Tuesday.Hillenburg died Monday of Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS, the cable network said in a statement. He was 57.He had announced he had the disease in March 2017. His death comes just weeks after the passing of another cartoon hero in Marvel creator Stan Lee. In this Jan. 31, 2015 file photo, Sponge

An elderly man hurled a Molotov cocktail at a vehicle carrying Supreme Court Chief Justice Kim Myeong-su on Tuesday, police said. The attack happened at 9:10 a.m. when the 74-year-old suspect, only identified by his surname Nam, threw the firebomb at the car as it was entering the top court building in southern Seoul, police said. (Yonhap)One of the front tires caught fire, but it was immediately put out by security guards with a fire extinguisher. Kim suffered no injuries. Police arrested Nam o

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will cut up to 14,000 workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it abandons many of its car models and restructures to focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles, the automaker announced Monday.The reductions could amount to as much as 8 percent of GM’s global workforce of 180,000 employees.The restructuring reflects changing North American auto markets as manufacturers continue to shift away from cars toward SUVs and trucks. In Oct

Starbucks Korea said Monday that its stores are now using paper straws after a test run.In September, Starbucks began a two-month trial period to test the feasibility of using paper straws at some 100 stores in Seoul, Busan and Jeju in an effort to reduce waste and protect the environment. (Yonhap)During the test run, the paper straws were available in both green and white. Starbucks has decided to use white straws in consideration of customer feedback suggesting that white straws appeared more

In a mountainous region where the two Koreas engaged in one of the fiercest battles during the 1950-53 Korean War, the two sides’ soldiers met in an unusual encounter earlier this month, decades after the war ended without an official peace treaty. While uniformed soldiers carried rifles on their way to Arrowhead Ridge inside the Demilitarized Zone, taking control of the stronghold was not their mission. South Korean soldiers walk at Arrowhead Ridge as they build a tactical road across the Milit

The size of equity funds operated by South Korean brokerage houses that invest in affiliates of Samsung Group nose-dived throughout this year, apparently as its pharmaceutical arm faced a crisis for its alleged accounting fraud, data showed Sunday.(Yonhap)According to the data compiled by market tracker FnGuide Inc., the market capitalization of the country's top 25 Samsung equity funds came to 1.7 trillion won ($1.5 billion) as of Thursday, down 523 billion won from the start of the year.Samsun

Shares gifted worth around 960 billion won

[KH Explains]: Answers to some of the most frequently raised questions regarding Samsung BioLogics caseOn Nov. 14, the market was thrown into commotion, and heated debates arose, as the South Korean financial regulator Financial Services Commission ruled Samsung BioLogics had intentionally violated accounting rules in 2015. It ordered a halt in stock trading of the biopharmaceutical company, which will go through an examination that could lead to delisting, in theory, in the worst-case scenario.

A group of South Koreans living in Britain said Thursday that they plan to hold a candlelight vigil in London on Sunday to call for a thorough investigation into recent assaults on South Korean students.One of the Koreans involved in the preparations for the candlelight gathering said that the protest rally will be held in front of Marks & Spencer in London's Oxford Circus. (Yonhap)The person said that the Korean community in Britain has been shocked by a recent instance of mob violence against