North Korea has significantly beefed up its human resources to boost its cyber warfare capabilities, the South Korean military said Sunday."A total of 6,800 hackers -- some 1,700 experts and 5,100 supportive members -- have been assigned to hacking and other cyber provocations," a senior military officer told reporters, requesting anonymity. The latest figure is 900 more than what Seoul's Military Cyber Command reported to the National Assembly in October."North Korea appears to have been concen

North Korea May 10, 2015

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday that its proposal for an ultra-high definition (UHD) television broadcasting technology has been chosen as the candidate for the next standard for the U.S. TV industry. The proposal, submitted jointly with U.S.-based broadcast infrastructure provider ONE Media, has been adopted by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 Technology Standards Group 3 as a Candidate Standard, the tech firm said in a press release.The proposal

Industry May 10, 2015

South Korea's top carmaker, Hyundai Motor Co., and its smaller affiliate, Kia Motors Corp., saw sales of their mid-size cars in China expand in the first quarter of this year on efforts to sell more pricey cars to improve profitability, data showed Sunday. Of the 440,514 vehicles the two carmakers sold in the January-March period in the Chinese market, the share of cars in the mid-size segment came to 81,311 units, or 18.5 percent, according to industry data. Compared to a year earlier, the port

Industry May 10, 2015

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev called on South Korean high-tech firms Sunday to invest in his country, the "front-door" to the European Union."To step in Bulgaria for Korean business means to step in the region, placed between Europe and Asia; we are the front door to a 500-million people single European market," Plevneliev said in a written interview with Yonhap News Agency.He also boasted Bulgaria's low tax levels, saying they are the sixth lowest in the world for small- and medium-sized

Industry May 10, 2015

South Korea plans to announce a package of measures next month to counter a slowdown in its exports, a main driver of the country's economic growth, officials said Sunday.The move comes as overseas shipments lost further ground last month. Asia's fourth-largest economy reported an 8.1 percent on-year fall in outbound shipments in April, worsening from a 4.3 percent on-year drop in March.Officials said the finance ministry, together with other government ministries and state think tanks, has star

May 10, 2015

올 시즌 처음으로 아시아 프로축구를 경험한 이탈리아 출신 파비오 칸나바로 광저우 헝다(중국) 감독이 한국이 가장 까다로운 상대라고 말했다.AP통신은 6일(현지시각) 칸나바로 감독이 2015 아시아축구연맹(AFC) 챔피언스리그를 통해 경험한 아시아 각국 프로팀의 평가를 소개했다고 보도했다.그는 “호주는 다른 국가에 비해 체격이 좋고, 긴 패스를 잘한다. 일본은 내가 좋아하는 스타일의 축구를 한다. 기술적으로 아주 뛰어나다”고 말했다. 그는 이어 “그러나 가장 강한 상대는 한국 팀이다. 한국 팀은 정신력이 강하다”고 평가했다. 엄청난 투자로 ‘탈(脫) 아시아급’ 전력을 구축했다는 평가를 받는 광저우 헝다 는 FC서울과 가시마 앤틀러스(일본), 웨스턴 시드니(호주)가 포함된 아시아챔피언스리그 H조에서 1위를 차지했다.광저우는 서울과 1승1무를 기록했다.칸나바로 감독은 2006년 독일 월드컵 때 이탈리아 국가대표 주장을 맡았던 스타 선수 출신이다.그는 지난해 말 이탈리아 축구대표팀 감독 출

한국어판 May 7, 2015

Married couples in South Korea received one of the smallest tax breaks among other advanced economies, a study showed Tuesday, although the government has been trying to promote marriage to tackle low birth rates. The effective income tax rates for singles ranged between 0.9 and 13 percent in 2013, which was 0.2-0.6 percentage point more than those for married couples, Ahn Jong-seok, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Public Finance, said in a report.The effective tax rate is the average ra

May 5, 2015

China's growing competitiveness in international trade is causing South Korean exports to lose market share, which can spell trouble for Asia's fourth-largest economy, a report said Tuesday.Chinese products with good export potential are forcing South Korean goods to surrender market share, the Korea Development Institute (KDI) said in the report based on the assessment of how a country's emergence on the global trade arena affects others among South Korea, Japan and China.Such developments are

May 5, 2015

South Korea's state-run power supplier said Tuesday it has started construction of a hydro power plant in Indonesia that will begin commercial operation in 2017. Korea Midland Power (KOMPIO), one of six power generation subsidiaries of the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., said it will invest 28 billion won ($25.9 million) to build the 55 megawatt-water plant on Sumatra Island, Indonesia.It is the second of its kind that the Korean power supplier has exported to the Asian nation. Under a dea

Industry May 5, 2015

South Korea and Vietnam signed a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) Tuesday, the Seoul government said, with the countries seeking to implement the deal before the year's end.The Korea-Vietnam FTA was officially signed by the countries' trade ministers in a ceremony held in Hanoi, about a month after the deal was initialed, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy."The two countries have agreed to work together for early implementation of the Korea-Vietnam FTA," it said in a pre

May 5, 2015