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Yonhap News Summary
The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday.
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(2nd LD) Kia Motors-Q2 earnings
SEOUL -- Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-largest automaker, said Friday that its second-quarter earnings surged 66.8 percent on-year, fueled mainly by brisk overseas sales.
Net profit reached 1.12 trillion won (US$1.07 billion) in the April-June period, compared to 676.1 billion won tallied a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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(LEAD) Japanese lawmakers-provocation
SEOUL/TOKYO -- South Korea has notified Japan that it will slap an entry ban on Japanese lawmakers planning to visit an island near the South's easternmost islets of Dokdo, officials said Friday, in a move to thwart the controversial trip.
The planned trip by four lawmakers of Japan's opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is likely to reignite a diplomatic conflict between Seoul and Tokyo, due to the latter's claims to the South Korean volcanic islets of Dokdo.
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69 dead or missing in this week's torrential rains
SEOUL -- This week's torrential downpours have left 59 people dead and 10 others missing across the country, with thousands more fleeing their homes to escape flooding and landslides, the country's disaster management agency said Friday.
The heaviest rains in a century killed 18 people in Seoul on Wednesday as landslides swept through houses, roads and apartment buildings, while one person still remains unaccounted for, according to the agency.
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Bank union files OECD complaint over Standard Chartered's pay plan
SEOUL -- The umbrella group of unionized South Korean bank workers said Friday it has filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over Standard Chartered Plc's move to adopt a merit pay system here.
About 2,900 unionized workers at SC First Bank, the Korean unit of Standard Chartered, have been on an indefinite strike since June 27, in protest against the bank's move to adopt a performance-based pay system. The strike marked the longest walkout in the history of the local banking sector.
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics logs 18 pct drop in Q2 net
SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top memory chipmaker, said Friday that its second-quarter earnings declined 18 percent from a year ago as feeble demand for TVs and personal computers drove down chip and display prices.
Net profit reached 3.51 trillion won (US$3.33 billion) in the April-June period, compared with 4.28 trillion won a year earlier, it said in a regulatory filing.
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(2nd LD) N. Korea, U.S. in high-level talks on denuclearization
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON -- After a 17-month hiatus, senior North Korean and U.S. government officials resumed talks in New York Thursday as part of efforts to revive the six-party negotiations on the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.
North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan described the first-day meeting as "constructive," while Stephen Bosworth, Washington's point man on Pyongyang, remained tight-lipped.
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(2nd LD) Kia Motors-Q2 earnings
SEOUL -- Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-largest automaker, said Friday that its second-quarter earnings surged 66.8 percent on-year, fueled mainly by brisk overseas sales.
Net profit reached 1.12 trillion won (US$1.07 billion) in the April-June period, compared to 676.1 billion won tallied a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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(LEAD) Japanese lawmakers-provocation
SEOUL/TOKYO -- South Korea has notified Japan that it will slap an entry ban on Japanese lawmakers planning to visit an island near the South's easternmost islets of Dokdo, officials said Friday, in a move to thwart the controversial trip.
The planned trip by four lawmakers of Japan's opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is likely to reignite a diplomatic conflict between Seoul and Tokyo, due to the latter's claims to the South Korean volcanic islets of Dokdo.
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69 dead or missing in this week's torrential rains
SEOUL -- This week's torrential downpours have left 59 people dead and 10 others missing across the country, with thousands more fleeing their homes to escape flooding and landslides, the country's disaster management agency said Friday.
The heaviest rains in a century killed 18 people in Seoul on Wednesday as landslides swept through houses, roads and apartment buildings, while one person still remains unaccounted for, according to the agency.
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Bank union files OECD complaint over Standard Chartered's pay plan
SEOUL -- The umbrella group of unionized South Korean bank workers said Friday it has filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over Standard Chartered Plc's move to adopt a merit pay system here.
About 2,900 unionized workers at SC First Bank, the Korean unit of Standard Chartered, have been on an indefinite strike since June 27, in protest against the bank's move to adopt a performance-based pay system. The strike marked the longest walkout in the history of the local banking sector.
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics logs 18 pct drop in Q2 net
SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top memory chipmaker, said Friday that its second-quarter earnings declined 18 percent from a year ago as feeble demand for TVs and personal computers drove down chip and display prices.
Net profit reached 3.51 trillion won (US$3.33 billion) in the April-June period, compared with 4.28 trillion won a year earlier, it said in a regulatory filing.
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(2nd LD) N. Korea, U.S. in high-level talks on denuclearization
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON -- After a 17-month hiatus, senior North Korean and U.S. government officials resumed talks in New York Thursday as part of efforts to revive the six-party negotiations on the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.
North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan described the first-day meeting as "constructive," while Stephen Bosworth, Washington's point man on Pyongyang, remained tight-lipped.
