Hyundai Glovis Co., one of South Korea's leading automotive logistics support companies, said Friday that it has opened a car parts export plant that will ship products to China.The plant located at the Wanju Techno Valley complex, some 235 kilometers south of Seoul, will assemble and package knock-down vehicle kits that will be shipped to Hyundai Motor Co.'s Sichuan Province plant in China. The plant is scheduled to be opened in the first half of this year.Both Hyundai Glovis and Hyundai Motor

South Korean intelligence agents under investigation over a high-profile spy case have repeatedly denied allegations that they had been ordered to forge Chinese government documents to frame a North Korean defector for espionage, prosecutors said Friday.The case centers around allegation that the National Intelligence Service obtained or produced fake Chinese immigration records and other key documents issued by Chinese authorities, and handed them over to the prosecution.As part of the investig

Seoul has demanded that Pyongyang pay back its loans and interest totaling $86 million in installments, with the first repayment of the principal and interest due next Monday, according to the Unification Ministry.“As the due date fast approaches, we have sent a notice to the North through the Export-Import Bank of Korea regarding its repayment obligation, about a month before the date and in line with international practices,” said a ministry official, declining to be named.Under the Roh Moo-hy

The foreign and defense ministers plan to visit the National Assembly Friday to urge the swift ratification of a revised pact on sharing the cost of keeping U.S. troops here, officials said.In January, the allies renewed their agreement on co-shouldering the financial burden of keeping 28,500 American forces here, but the agreement has been pending in the parliament due to the objections of the main opposition party. The previous five-year deal expired at the end of last year.According to the of

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had flown to an eastern test site one day before his military fired off an unprecedented number of rockets from there, a military source said Friday, an indication that he may have had a direct hand in the Sunday night launch.Kim visited the eastern city of Wonsan via a light aircraft, believed to be one of the Cessna models, last Saturday. The North fired off 25 ground-to-ground FROG-7 rockets into the sea the following night."It seems that Kim may have planned t

한 미국인 고물상이 우연히 손에 넣은 도금 장식품이 3천3백만 달러를 호가하는 19세기 러시아 황실의 보물임이 밝혀지면서 전세계적으로 화제를 뿌렸다. 현지 언론의 19일 보도에 따르면, 이 고물상은 장식품을 녹여 도금된 부분의 금을 채취하려다가, 장식품 안쪽에 새겨진 “바쉐론 콘스탄틴(Vacheron Constantin)이라는 이름을 보고 호기심에 구글에 검색한 직후 아연실색했다. 자신이 녹이려던 장식품의 사진이 러시아 국보인 “파베르제의 달걀” 관련 기사에 버젓이 실려있었던 것이다. 파베르제의 달걀은 19세기 유럽 보석세공의 거장 카를 구스타보비치 파베르제가 1887년 러시아의 알렉산더 3세에 바친 보석으로 정교하게 세공된 달걀이다.파베르제는 러시아 혁명이 발발해 러시아를 탈출할 때까지 총 50개의 파베르제의 달걀을 제작했으며, 그 중 단 42개만이 현존하는 것으로 알려졌다. 이 보물의 대부분은 러시아 크렘린 궁에 보관되어 있으나, 그 중 하나가 어떻게 미국 대륙으로 넘어가게 됐는

At least two MV-22 Osprey squadrons will take part in one of the largest-ever joint amphibious landing drills to be staged by South Korea and the United States, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.The allies plan to open this year's Ssang Yong (double dragon) exercise next week on the southeast coast of Korea as part of their broader annual military training code-named Foal Eagle.There will be an MV-22 aerial assault exercise on April 2, involving about 2,000 troops, the official said."There will

North Korea on Thursday called the first meeting of its new parliament.The state Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Seoul, announced in a short dispatch that the inaugural session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly will be held in Pyongyang on April 9.On March 9, 687 new deputies were elected to what is regarded as a rubber-stamp legislature. It was the first such election under the current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who took the helm in December 2011 following the death of his fa

3200년 전 암으로 사망한 고대 남성의 유골이 발견돼 학계에 큰 파장이 일었다.영국 더럼대학교 (Durham University) 연구팀에 따르면 연구결과 이 유골은 3200년 전 암으로 사망한 25-35세의 젊은 남성의 것으로 추정되며, 지난 해 수단 남부의 나일강 인근에서 발견됐다.연구팀에 따르면 엑스레이 감식 및 전자 미세 현미경 관찰 결과, 유골의 흉골 및 오른쪽 견갑골 곳곳에서 암이 발병한 흔적이 발견됐다.연구팀은 “이 유골에서 전이성 암(metastatic carcinoma)의 흔적이 보이며, 연조직의 악성 암세포가 몸 곳곳으로 퍼져 사망한 것으로 추정된다”며 “이는 현존하는 가장 오래된 전이성 암의 증거”라고 주장했다.연구를 이끈 더럼대학교와 영국박물관 전문가들은 이 유골의 발견이 고대로부터 전해져 내려오는 암의 발병 원인 및 진화 과정을 알아내는데 도움이 될 것이라며, 흥분을 감추지 못한 것으로 알려졌다.코리아헤럴드 온라인뉴스부 (khnews@heraldcorp.co