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Sewol arrives at Mokpo

Sewol ferry arrives at Korea's southwestern port of Mokpo. / YonhapBy Lee Kyung-min The ferry Sewol arrived at the southwestern Mokpo New Port on a semisubmersible recovery ship, Friday, 1,080 days after it sank in waters off the island of Jindo.The recovery ship arrived at the port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, at 1 p.m., six hours after it began sailing from the site where the Sewol was raised and placed onto it.The recovery ship was safely secured at the port 30 minutes later at 1:30 p.m., according to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.Sailing at a speed of between 13 and 18.5 kilometers per hour, the recovery ship experienced no problems or complications.Weather conditions were favorable, as rain that continued in the early morning let up in the afternoon and wave heights remaining below 1 meter during the entire journey.It will take about a week to detach the ferry from the recovery vessel and move it into a dry dock, a task expected to be completed by next Thursday.  The ministry said 456 module transporters will be maneuvered under Sewol between Saturday and Mo

Mar 31, 2017
Sewol arrives at Mokpo
  • Former captain does not want to talk about Sewol
  • Gov't to comb through seabed to find remains of missing Sewol passengers

PARK GEUN-HYE ARRESTED

Former President Park Geun-hye sits with investigators in a sedan running into the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, early Friday. The court accepted the prosecution’s request to arrest her on multiple charges, including bribery, abuse of authority, coercion and leaking government secrets. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk   Former President Park Geun-hye sits with investigators in a sedan running into the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, early Friday. The court accepted the prosecution’s request to arrest her on multiple charges, including bribery, abuse of authority, coercion and leaking government secrets. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk By Park Si-soo Former President Park Geun-hye was detained early Friday after the court accepted the prosecution’s request to arrest her on multiple charges, including bribery, abuse of authority, coercion and leaking government secrets.This came three weeks after Park was removed from office on March 10 in a historic impeachment ruling by the Constitutional Co

Mar 31, 2017
PARK GEUN-HYE ARRESTED
  • PARK OUSTED

BBK head reiterates resolve to fight for truth

By Kim Se-jeong A Korean-American businessman who spent eight years in prison for a stock-rigging scandal that had implicated former President Lee Myung-bak criticized Lee for corruption and vowed to fight for the truth.Kim Kyung-joon, the owner of the now-defunct BBK, said, “There’s so much corruption to be unveiled, and this includes former President Lee Myung-bak and his administration.” Kim made the remark arriving at the Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday (local time).Asked if he had crucial evidence against Lee, Kim answered, “I am too tired to talk. I will tell you everything in one week.”He flew back to LA where his family lives, immediately after being released ― he stayed one night at a detention center waiting for his flight.Before his departure, Kim met Rep. Park Beom-kye of the Democratic Party of Korea. “He promised to share the legal documents involving the scandal with me,” Rep. Park told Yonhap News Agency, confirming Kim’s will to fight.In 2009, Kim was convicted of embezzling 32 billion won ($28.6 m

Mar 30, 2017

Murder suspect says 'I don't remember'

By Lee Kyung-min A 17-year-old girl, the prime suspect in the killing and dismembering of an eight-year-old, refused to answer questions, only repeating “I don’t remember,” police said Thursday.According to the Incheon Yeonsu Police Station, the suspect, whose identity is being withheld, was put under emergency detention at 10:35 p.m., Wednesday, six hours after the victim was reported missing. The two lived in different buildings in the same apartment block.The detention came five minutes after police discovered a black plastic bag containing the victim’s partially dismembered body, near a water tank at the top of the building where the suspect lived.The police said they secured a statement from the victim’s friend who was with her at a playground near their school at 12:44 p.m., Wednesday. The friend told police the victim said she had to borrow a cell phone to call her mother.Four minutes later, surveillance video footage showed the suspect and the victim getting on the same elevator together at 12:49 p.m., in the building where the suspect lived

Mar 30, 2017

Sewol to leave for Mokpo Friday

Recognize us: Bereaved family members of two teachers who died aboard the sunken Sewol ferry hold a press conference in front of the Seoul Administrative Court, Thursday, demanding that the government recognize their loved ones as having died while on duty. / YonhapBy Lee Kyung-min Recovery crews are putting in last-ditch efforts to move the Sewol ferry to Mokpo New Port, South Jeolla Province, today, before favorable weather conditions end later in the day, maritime authorities said Thursday.According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, two buoyancy tanks, part of six initially installed to help the recovery ship stay afloat while the Sewol was loaded onto it, will be removed Thursday.The crews are welding 50 parts of the Sewol to secure it firmly to the giant vessel to prevent it from being detached while sailing, a task expected to end later in the day.“We are working under the assumption that the transport vessel will be able to start moving the Sewol early Friday,” an oceans ministry official said.“The necessary process was halted yesterday when

Mar 30, 2017
Sewol to leave for Mokpo Friday
  • US embassy honors Sewol victims with magnolia photo

Park's court hearing raises questions about her future

Ousted former Korean President Park Geun-hye enters Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, Thursday morning, to face a court hearing over 13 charges including bribery, coercion, abuse of power and the leaking of state secrets. / Yonhap By Ko Dong-hwanOusted former Korean President Park Geun-hye entered Seoul Central District Court Thursday morning for a review of the prosecutor’s arrest warrant for her filed three days ago.She headed straight to the court without calling at the prosecutors’ office, unlike her aides involved in the presidential corruption scandal, including former presidential chief of staff Kim Ki-choon and former culture minister Cho Yoon-sun, and vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Lee Jae-yong.As the case unfolded, questions about how the unmarried woman facing 13 criminal charges will be treated during and after the hearing arose. These included how far her bodyguards can accompany her in the court, where she will be incarcerated after the hearing and what will happen to her following the review’s result.While media ac

Mar 30, 2017
Park's court hearing raises questions about her future
  • Park Geun-hye awaits ruling after 9-hour hearing over arrest
  • Korea's history of arrested ex-Presidents

US embassy honors Sewol victims with magnolia photo

The U.S. Embassy in South Korea on Thursday posted a photo of a magnolia tree that former President Barack Obama dedicated to a high school three years ago to pay tribute to the victims of the country's worst maritime disaster.Obama gave the tree as a gift to Danwon High School when he visited South Korea in April 2014, right after the 6,825-ton ferry Sewol capsized and sank off the country's southwest coast on April 16, leaving more than 300 people dead or missing. Many students from the high school in Ansan, south of Seoul, were among the dead."The U.S. honored the Sewol Ferry victims, with the gift of a magnolia tree, and now the tree is ready to bloom," the embassy said on its official Twitter account, along with its photo taken in April 2014. "Our thoughts are still with them."The embassy also posted Obama's remarks on the tree that, "The Magnolia represents beauty, and, with every spring, renewal."Its social media comments on the maritime disaster came amid the ongoing efforts to salvage the sunken ferry, raising prospects of retrieving the bodies of victims who have been missi

Mar 30, 2017
US embassy honors Sewol victims with magnolia photo
  • Sewol to leave for Mokpo Friday

Russian trio arrested for smuggling N. Korea drugs into S. Korea

Three Russian nationals have been arrested on charges of smuggling North Korean medicines into South Korea for online sales, police here said Thursday.The Russians, including a 47-year-old woman, are accused of importing North Korea-made medicines and health supplements via Russia by airmail and selling them without a permit to South Korean consumers through social media sites, Geumjung Police Station in this port city said.It said the unauthorized import of North Korean goods violates the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act that strictly regulates trade between the two Koreas. Under the act, imports of North Korean medicines and other goods require the approval of the South Korean unification minister.The North Korean goods smuggled here by the Russians included 205 boxes of six kinds of drugs, worth about 9 million won ($8,080), police said, adding they were bought in the North and airmailed to South Korea via Russia.The smuggled medicines, all produced by the North's Pugang Pharmaceutic Co., include erectile dysfunction drugs and health supplements touted by its manufacturer

Mar 30, 2017
Russian trio arrested for smuggling N. Korea drugs into S. Korea

Park Geun-hye awaits ruling after 9-hour hearing over arrest

Former President Park Geun-hye walks into the Seoul Central District Court to attend a hearing over her arrest on Thursday morning. The prosecution requested the arrest warrant on multiple charges, including bribery, coercion, abuse of power and the leak of state secrets presumably in 13 cases implicating her close friend and scores of aides. She has denied any wrongdoing. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk Former President Park Geun-hye walks into the Seoul Central District Court to attend a hearing over her pre-trial detention on Thursday morning. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk   Former President Park Geun-hye walks into the Seoul Central District Court to attend a hearing over her pre-trial detention on Thursday morning. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk By Jung Min-ho Former President Park Geun-hye attended a court hearing to review the validity of a warrant to arrest her on corruption charges, Thursday.This was the first time a former president has attended a court hearing on an arrest warrant since the system was adopted in 1997.Judge Kang

Mar 30, 2017
Park Geun-hye awaits ruling after 9-hour hearing over arrest
  • Park's court hearing raises questions about her future
  • Park sent off by former 'courtiers'
  • Ex-president ignores questions

6 indicted for making Samsung chief's sex tape

By Jung Min-hoProsecutor have indicted six people on charges of illegally recording sex videos of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee and blackmailing the company.According to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Tuesday, six people, including a former employee of CJ CheilJedang surnamed Seon, 56, his brother, 46, and a sex worker who appeared in the videos, have been indicted.The prosecution said the suspects extorted 900 million won ($800,000) from Samsung between June and August 2013 by threatening to release the videos, in which a man who looks like the business tycoon is giving money to young women after receiving sexual services.They are suspected of recording five such videos between December 2011 and June 2013 at his private residence in southern Seoul. The videos were disclosed to the public in July 2016 with a report by online news outlet Newstapa.Following the revelation of Seon’s career background, many people suspected CJ Group was involved in orchestrating the taping. Lee Maeng-hee, CJ Group’s late honorary chairman, was in a dispute wi

Mar 29, 2017
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