South Korean footballer Ki Sung-yueng, heavily criticized over writing derisive online comments toward his former national team head coach, vowed on Monday to make a personal apology.The midfielder for Sunderland in English Premier League arrived at Incheon International Airport Monday to join the national team's training camp this week. South Korea is scheduled to host Brazil on Saturday and Mali on Oct. 15.Ki, once a fixture on the national team, is back on the squad for the first time under t

Soccer Oct. 7, 2013

Credit is the best assets신뢰는 가장 좋은 자산이다His successor will almost certainly be a trusted individual from within the company. Still, much of the goodwill capital of Berkshire lives in Buffett himself. Many of the best deals the company has done in recent years have come to him, rather than being sought out, because he confers such luster on any company he touches.그의 후계자는 이 회사 내부에 있는 사람 중에서 확실히 믿을 수 있는 사람일 것이다. 하지만 버크셔의 평판 자본금의 대부분은 버핏 자신이다. 그 회사가 최근 몇 년 동안 이루어 낸 최고의 거래 중 많은 거래는 버핏이 찾아 낸 것이 아니라, 거래

Podcast Oct. 7, 2013

   Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, with leaks and mishaps reported almost daily.   Abe made the comments in a speech at an international science forum in Kyoto in western Japan.  "We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem," Abe said in his English speech to open the conference on energy and environment.   "M

World Oct. 6, 2013

  Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles at a police station and a nearby primary school in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 15 people including children, a local official said.   Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, and there are persistent fears that Iraq will relapse into the kind of intense Sunni-Shiite bloodshed that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.   The blasts in the Turkmen Shiite village of Qabak, which is located in Nineveh provin

World Oct. 6, 2013

  Divers in Italy recovered 16 more bodies Sunday after a shipwreck in which more than 300 African refugees are feared to have died, as a government minister called for an easing of immigration rules.   Officials said the death toll now stands at 127, as divers resumed an operation suspended since Friday because of rough seas off the island of Lampedusa where Thursday's tragedy unfolded.   Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge was on the dock of the remote outcrop as corpses were being unloaded, af

World Oct. 6, 2013

Libya said it had demanded an explanation from Washington Sunday for the "kidnap" of a citizen in an unauthorized commando raid on its territory that netted a top Al-Qaeda suspect."The Libyan government has been following the reports of  the kidnap of one of the Libyan citizens wanted by the authorities in the United States," a government statement said. "As soon as it heard the reports, the Libyan government contacted the US authorities to demand an explanation."US special forces seized Abu Ana

World Oct. 6, 2013

Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because of an approaching typhoon, authorities said.Typhoon Fitow is expected to make landfall early Monday between Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, according to the National Meteorological Center.Provincial authorities said that by noon Sunday more than 65,000 boats had returned to port or moved to safer areas. Zhejiang's provincial government said 289,000 people had been evacuated

World Oct. 6, 2013

The agency of the five-member girl group KARA said Sunday it had no plans to replace Nicole with a new member after its recent announcement that only three members have decided to renew their contracts with the firm. “Nicole will leave the team after her contract expires in January, but the remaining members will continue to perform home and abroad without introducing new scouts,” said DSP media. Three members -- Park Gyu-ri, Goo Hara and Han Seung-yeon -- will be staying another two years with

Oct. 6, 2013

Pentagon said Saturday it will recall most of its furloughed employees as a US government shutdown continued with no signs of an end to the impasse.President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address to demand that Republican lawmakers "end this farce" and approve a budget to keep the government running.But Republican leaders charged it was the president's refusal to negotiate that was to blame for the continuing stalemate.The US government closed all but its essential operations Tuesday when R

World News Oct. 6, 2013

WASHINGTON -- US forces struck two militant targets in Africa on Saturday, snatching a top Al-Qaeda suspect from the streets of Tripoli and launching a pre-dawn raid against a Shebab leader's home in Somalia.In Libya, US forces seized a militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi, a long-sought Al-Qaeda operative indicted in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.A separate raid in the southern Somali port of Barawe failed to capture the senior militant and it was unclear whether he had

World News Oct. 6, 2013

More than half of South Korean job seekers found to have applied for random jobs mainly due to great psychological pressure in the face of a tight job market, a recent survey showed.    According to the Career, an online job search engine, 53.6 percent of 688 job seekers surveyed have made such “random applications.”Such aimless applications cause losses for both companies and applicants. Most random applicants are eliminated before the final selection procedure to screen candidates. Only 21.7 p

Social Affairs Oct. 6, 2013

취업 준비생의 절반 이상이 급한 ‘묻지마 지원’을 해본 경험이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 취업포털 ‘커리어’는 구직자 688명을 대상으로 ‘묻지마 지원 여부’에 관한 설문 조사를 실시했다. 설문 결과 응답자의 53.6%가 묻지마 지원을 한 경험이 ‘있다’고 답했다. 묻지마 지원의 주된 이유는 심리적인 압박 때문이었다. 취업에 대한 조급함이라고 말한 사람이 30.5%로 가장 많았다. 경제적인 어려움도 묻지마 지원을 부추겼다. ‘경제적인 문제 때문에’라고 답한 구직자가 19%, ‘적성을 못 찾아서’라는 의견은 15.7%로 3위를 차지했고 이 같은 경우 취업 직전까지 자신이 무엇을 해야 좋을지 확신이 서지 않는 케이스다. 이 외에  ‘현재의 스펙으로는 원하는 기업에 갈 수 없기 때문에(13.1%)’, ‘지원을 쉬지 않아야 한다는 의무감 때문에(13.1%)’, ‘어떤 기업이 좋은지 판가름 할 수 있는 정보를 찾기 어려워서(9.9%)’ 등이 뒤따랐다. 이런 묻지

한국어판 Oct. 6, 2013