Police escort Yoo Byung-il, the elder brother of wanted man Yoo Byung-eun, to the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office on June 11. (Yonhap)The French government has acknowledged the seriousness of the Sewol ferry disaster by banning fugitive Yoo Byung-eun, who is better known as Ahae in Europe, from holding a scheduled photo exhibition in the country.Following his previous event in Paris in 2013, Yoo, the owner of the Sewol, was preparing for a solo show in Compiegne, northern France, before the

The prosecution reportedly plans to indict the fugitive Yoo Byung-eun, even if it fails to arrest the owner of the sunken ferry Sewol, as investigators have already secured testimony that after modifications, the vessel had a weakened ability to recover its balance at the time of its sinking.While the prosecution said it may choose to indict him before his capture, it asserted that remarks from Yoo’s aides could fulfil requirements to indict the runaway.According to investigators at the Incheon

The joint Gaeseong industrial complex between the two Koreas will mark the 10th anniversary of its establishment on June 30.As of March 2014, 123 companies from the South were operating businesses at the complex, located in the North’s border city of Gaeseong, and the number of employees came to 52,289 from the North and 765 from the South.Textile and apparel firms topped the list with 72, followed by mechanical and metallic manufacturers with 23, electro-mechanics and electronics firms with 13,

The prosecution is set to ask the Incheon District Court to issue an arrest warrant for the wife of the Sewol ferry owner to keep her in custody. She was seized on Saturday.Investigators captured runaway Yoo Byung-eun’s wife, Kwon Yoon-ja, at an apartment in Bundang, south of Seoul, while her husband and oldest son Dae-gyun are still on the nation’s most wanted list.Kwon, who was staying at the apartment with her two aides early Saturday, was handed over to the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Offi