Actress Kim Tae-ri has been cast alongside actor Lee Byung-hun for the upcoming drama series “Mr. Sunshine” (tentative title), slated to air early next year.　Kim will be the female lead in the show, a melodrama about a Joseon-era man who becomes an American soldier and returns to the country that abandoned him, the show’s production company Hwa and Dam Pictures said Thursday. Kim will play the daughter of a Joseon-era nobleman.　The show will mark the small screen debut of Kim, who starred in las

Hyundai Motor's eco-friendly car, the Sonata Hybrid (Hyundai Motor Group)The number of eco-friendly cars in South Korea’s used car market rose 26 percent on-year in the first half of this year due to eased regulations, industry data showed Wednesday.A total of 7,107 eco-friendly vehicles were offered on the official website of used car dealer SK Encar between January and June this year, up 26 percent compared to 5,644 units listed in the same period last year, the company said. Hybrid electric v

President Moon Jae-in, currently in Germany for the annual Group of 20 summit, met with his German counterparts on the first day of his trip and reconfirmed partnership between the two states, focusing on peace on the peninsula and energy policies.Moon attended separate meetings with German Federal Republic President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and de facto state chief Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday afternoon, local time.“In order to deter North Korea’s provocations, stronger intern

BERLIN -- President Moon Jae-in’s first summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is likely to reel under the aftermath of North Korea’s recent launch of a long-range missile which is seen as capable of hitting the US mainland.The two are set to meet in Berlin on Thursday morning, local time, before heading to Hamburg for the annual Group of 20 summit.Their first encounter is to take place amid ongoing tension over the deployment of an advanced US anti-missile battery on the Korean Peninsula, a

BERLIN -- President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday appealed to South Korean compatriots in Germany for their support over the new government‘s policies on the Korean Peninsula and its responses to North Korea‘s military provocations.The South Korean president, currently on an official visit to Germany’s capital ahead of his attendance to the annual Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, met with Korean expatriates over lunch on Wednesday, local time, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.The meeting was the first official

In a meeting with business leaders accompanying him on a trip to the US last week, President Moon Jae-in asked them to “trust in the new government’s economic policy, invest more and create jobs.”Describing himself as both pro-labor and pro-business, Moon said the core of his policy was to forge a fair and transparent environment for competition, which he said would be good for doing business and boost the country’s growth potential.The gathering in Washington marked the

On the second floor of a 2,230-square-meter, used-goods superstore in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Koji Onazawa pauses beside some old Japanese surfboards. He’s spent nearly two decades at Bookoff Corp. -- a corporate legend in Japan that’s barely known outside it, with 832 secondhand shops across the country. Now he’s running Jalan Jalan Japan, the company’s first true foray into selling more than just used books abroad. “We’re not a representative of Bookoff here,” he says. “We’re a representa

Peter Sagan, the reigning cycling world champion, has been disqualified from the 2017 Tour de France for his role in a crash that occurred during the fourth stage of the Tour on Tuesday in Vittel, France.The crash occurred in the stage’s final sprint when Mark Cavendish crashed into a barrier while trying to pass Sagan. Replays showed the two riders making contact and Sagan using his elbow to block Cavendish’s path. Cavendish broke his right shoulder in the crash, forcing his withdrawal from the

The number of South Koreans using Internet of Things services introduced by the country’s three mobile carriers is on the rise, providing a new breakthrough for the telecom companies’ stalled growth, according to government data and industry sources Wednesday. Data from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning showed 5.95 million Koreans have subscribed to IoT services as of May, accounting for nearly 10 percent of the total number of subscribers of mobile network services, at 61.45 mill

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday embarked on a six-day trip to Germany to attend the annual Group of 20 summit, hoping to reinforce the nation’s leverage in multinational diplomacy.During his stay in Berlin and Hamburg, the president is set to attend a series of bilateral and regional summits with key partner states, including Japan, China and Russia, with one of his aims to build up defense against North Korea’s escalating military threats. (Yonhap)The South Korean leader left for Berlin at a