Новости по теме South Korea

Winners of K-pop Festival in Almaty get to go to South Korea Grand K-pop Festival 2014 was held in Almaty. Mad Man band won the Grand Prix and will go to South Korea.

19 July 2014

Switzerland tops innovation rankings for fourth year Switzerland has claimed the top spot on the Global Innovation Index for the fourth-straight year while Sub-Saharan Africa "posted significant regional improvement".

19 July 2014

S. Korea lifts rice import caps, but vows high tariffs South Korea announced it would scrap rice import caps from next year, but said high tariffs would be imposed to prevent a damaging surge that would hurt local farmers.

18 July 2014

Five killed as helicopter crashes in S. Korean city A fire department helicopter crashed Thursday near an elementary school in a residential district of the South Korean city of Gwangju, killing five people on board, officials said.

17 July 2014

400 Kazakhstani sportsmen to participate in Asian Games in South Korea Over 400 Kazakhstani sportsmen will participate in the upcoming 17th Asian Games in Icheon, South Korea.

14 July 2014

North Korea fires 100 artillery shells into sea North Korea fired 100 artillery shells into the sea Monday in a live-fire drill near the eastern maritime border with South Korea that followed a recent series of missile tests.

14 July 2014

Silk Road included into World Heritage: Kazakhstan to ensure protection of cultural site Kazakh representative to the UNESCO Executive Council Asel Utegenova said that Kazakhstan would ensure necessary protection of monuments included into the World Heritage.

10 July 2014

Psy goes from 'Gangnam' to hip-hop style in new song Psy, who set off a global sensation with "Gangnam Style," tried out a fresh sound Sunday as he released a hip-hop tale of drunken debauchery co-starring rap legend Snoop Dogg.

08 July 2014

Samsung Electronics flags 25% plunge in Q2 profit Samsung estimated Tuesday that its operating profit would plunge nearly 25 percent on year in the second quarter of 2014, as cheap Chinese devices and a strong won hammered down its share of the global smartphone market.

08 July 2014

N. Korea leader directs island assault drill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un warned the South would "regret bitterly" any incursion of their disputed sea border as he directed a large-scale mock assault on an island, state media said.

05 July 2014

'Backpackers found living in squalor' after Sydney fire At least 15 people, reportedly backpackers from Japan and South Korea "living in squalor" in minibuses, a shipping container and a caravan, had to be rescued from a raging Sydney fire.

02 July 2014

N. Korea fires two short-range rockets off coast North Korea fired two short-range rockets off its east coast, South Korea said, the latest in a series of missile tests ahead of a state visit to Seoul by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

02 July 2014

Airbus, Boeing and Israel firm bid for S. Korea military deal South Korea said Tuesday it is considering offers from plane giants Airbus and Boeing as well as Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to provide air refuelling tankers in a deal estimated to be worth $1.38 billion.

01 July 2014

Kazakhstan goes up in UN e-gov index Kazakhstan has risen by 10 stands in the UN e-government index.

30 June 2014

S.Korea president apologises for army shooting South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologised Monday for a deadly front-line shooting rampage by an army conscript and called for a close look at abuses in barracks.

30 June 2014

S. Korea's Park keeps PM who resigned over ferry disaster After two failed attempts to appoint a new prime minister, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye announced Thursday her "agonised" decision to retain the incumbent who resigned over April's ferry disaster.

26 June 2014

Samsung, LG launch smartwatches with new Google software South Korea's Samsung and LG launched rival smartwatches powered by Google's new software as they jostle to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's next growth booster.

26 June 2014

S. Korean soldier who killed comrades in 'stable condition' A South Korean soldier who killed five comrades was in a stable condition Tuesday after an apparent suicide bid, doctors said, as details emerged of a final note he wrote regretting his actions.

24 June 2014

Kazakhstan and South Korea to work on explorations in Karaganda Oblast Kazakhstan has signed an agreement with South Korea on geological exploration of Dyusenbai section in Karaganda Oblas.

22 June 2014

King of Jordan on official visit in Astana King of Jordan Abdullah II and Crown Prince of Jordan Hussein bin Al Abdullah arrived to Astana on an official visit on June 19.

20 June 2014

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