성인용품 쇼핑몰 바나나몰은 오는 25일 강남구 삼성동 인근 jbk컨벤션에서 일본AV배우 ‘아오이 츠카사’의 단독 팬미팅을 개최한다.아오이 츠카사는 ‘네이키드웬폰 사소리2’, ‘원컷-어느 친절한 살인자의 기록’에 출연했으며, 국내 잡지 ‘맥심 코리아’와의 인터뷰 촬영을 통해 다양한 매력을 뽐낸 바 있다.　 아오이 츠카사는 “최근 바나나몰 사이트에서 실시된 일본AV배우 인기투표 결과 제가 1위에 선정되었다고 들었다”며, “평소 저를 좋아해주는 한국팬들이 궁금했는데 이번 기회를 통해 팬들과 직접 만날 수 있게 되어 기쁘다”고 말했다.　 팬미팅은 아오이 츠카사와 토크, 게임, 사진촬영 등으로 구성되며, 행사에 관련된 자세한 정보는 바나나몰 홈페이지에서 확인할 수 있다.　(khnews@heraldcorp.com)

South Korea's economic output expanded from a year earlier in 2014, though output by the manufacturing sector continued to dwindle with the portion of trade in total supply also shrinking, a central bank report showed Wednesday.The country's total supply, which equals total consumption, came to 4,237.8 trillion won ($3,598.1 billion) in 2014, up 0.7 percent from the previous year, according to the report from the Bank of Korea.The 2014 reading marked a turnaround from a 0.2 percent on-year drop

Global messaging app operator Line Corp., wholly owned by South Korea's internet giant Naver Corp., has never paid out dividends to its Seoul-based parent firm, documents showed Wednesday.Line has not delivered any dividends to its shareholders since its foundation in 2000, according to the documents submitted to the Japan Exchange Group Inc., Tokyo's main bourse operator and the U.S.-based Securities and Exchange Commission."Divided payout in the future will be decided on various factors such a

A slew of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) the Lotte Group has carried out at home and abroad have elevated the retail giant to a new level, but such moves have also become the target of intense scrutiny by prosecutors amid their widening probe into the group's alleged slush funds, industry watchers said Wednesday.Shin Dong-bin, the second son of group founder Shin Kyuk-ho, was promoted to Lotte chairman in 2011 to take the helm of the conglomerate with businesses ranging from food and retail to

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a local shipyard, on Wednesday unveiled its detailed self-restructuring program which centers on a cut in workforce and having executives return part of their salaries.Earlier, the shipyard has said it will conduct a self-rehabilitation scheme worth 1.5 trillion won ($1.27 billion), including asset sales and a cut in employees. Its creditors provisionally approved the program.According to the plan, Samsung Heavy will reduce its workforce by 1,500 through an early re

South Korean archer Choi Mi-sun has tied a world record in women's recurve in the run-up to the Rio de Janeiro Summer, brightening the prospects for her first Olympic medal. (Yonhap)Choi scored 686 out of a possible 720 in the individual qualification round at the Archery World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, on Tuesday (local time). Choi's score equaled the record set by fellow South Korean Ki Bo-bae at last year's Summer Universiade in Gwangju, 350 kilometers south of Seoul.Ki, also in action in Turke

South Korea opened a "global business support center" on Wednesday in the Pangyo Startup Campus, the nation's new hub for digital business startups.The center will serve as a "gateway" for local startups to meet foreign investors and launch operations abroad, said the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.It is tasked with establishing a database of information related to startups here and provide potential overseas investors with this information.It will forge partnerships with foreign a

South Korea posted its 52nd consecutive trade surplus in May as a sharp drop in imports outpaced a fall in exports, customs data showed Wednesday.The country's trade surplus came to US$6.98 billion last month, down from $8.8 billion in the previous month, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service.The May figure marked an 11-percent on-year rise from $6.29 billion tallied in the same month a year earlier, extending its streak to 52 months.But the amount of trade surplus fell for three

South Korea failed to put its stock market back on MSCI Inc.'s review list of developed market index candidates due to a lack of financial reforms required by the widely followed global index provider, the financial regulator said Wednesday. MSCI, or Morgan Stanley Capital International, cited the absence of an around-the-clock market to exchange Korean won with other currencies and delays in Seoul's packages of financial reforms that will take effect after 2017, as some of the main reasons, the

Martin Rennie, former head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps in Major League Soccer (MLS), was sacked by a South Korean second-tier club on Wednesday.Seoul E-Land FC announced that Rennie will be released from his contract by mutual agreement. The 41-year-old Scot became the club's first-ever head coach when he joined the K League Challenge side in July 2014. He is also the first foreigner to manage a second division pro club in South Korea. (Yonhap)"Seoul E-Land FC thank Martin Rennie for leadin