An appeals court on Friday reduced the sentence for the son of a former aide to the parliamentary speaker indicted over threatening to bomb Cheong Wa Dae.The Seoul High Court sentenced the 22-year-old, surnamed Kang, the son of a former aide to National Assembly Speaker Chung Ui-hwa, to six months in prison for calling the presidential office in January to say he was going to bomb the office.He had received an eight-month jail term in a lower court for posting threatening tweets on Twitter, a po

South Korea and the United States performed a joint war simulation on Friday involving live-fire bombings and flights of combat jets in the latest show of joint force against North Korea.The allies mobilized the biggest-ever number of troops, artillery pieces and military vehicles for this year's Integrated Firepower Exercise 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule in 1945. Under the scenarios of a local attack and all-out aggression by North Korea, th

Son Heung-min has signed with Tottenham Hotspur, the English Premier League club announced Friday, making him the 13th South Korean to play in the competition.Tottenham snatched the 23-year-old wing forward from Germany-based Bayer Leverkusen and signed him through 2020. The financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, though the transfer fee is reportedly around 30 million euros (US$33.8 million).Tottenham added that the deal is subject to work permit and international clearance,

Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin bought a 1.3 percent stake in Lotte Confectionery Co. from a construction unit after the market closing on Friday in a bid to help resolve the group's complex cross-shareholding structure, the retail giant said. Shin bought 19,000 shares from Lotte Construction Co. to raise his stake to 6.7 percent in the confectionery company, a deal estimated at 35.8 billion won (US$30.5 million), Lotte Group said. "(Shin) purchased shares in Lotte Confectionery to resolve pa

The Ministry of Environment on Friday gave its approval for a cable car to be set up on a popular mountain range near South Korea's eastern coast, a plan that has been criticized for its potential harm to the regional environment. The construction plan calls for a 3.5-kilometer long cable car system to be built at the southern region of Mount Seorak in Yangyang County, about 215 kilometers east of Seoul, setting up a means of convenient transportation all the way up to the peak of the Osaek area