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Seoul, Nov 16 (EFE/EPA).- The Seoul Stock Exchange closed Monday with a 1.97 percent rise to hit a nearly three-year high amid hopes on effective vaccine against COVID-19.The benchmark South Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 49.16 points, or 1.97 percent, to close at 2,543.03. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN). SHOT LIST: SOUTH KOREAN DEALERS WORK IN FRONT OF MONITORS AT THE HANA BANK IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Former Korean Air Lines executive Heather Cho is freed after a court suspends the sentence she was given for her outburst over the way she was served nuts. Yiming Woo reports.
Paris, Sep 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Mohammed Badra) Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was given a one-year prison sentence Thursday after he was found guilty of illegally financing his 2012 presidential election campaign.The court found that the former French head of state, who was in office between 2007 and 2012, benefitted from a double-accounting system put in place in order to exceed spending limits imposed by French law.FOOTAGE OF THE COURT IN PARIS.
Seoul, Sep 1 (EFE/EPA).- South Korea recorded a trade surplus of $1.67 billion dollars in August, 54 percent less compared to the same month of 2020, the government reported Wednesday.August was the 16th consecutive month that Asia's fourth largest economy posted a trade surplus.South Korea's exports increased 35 percent in August to around $53.2 billion owing to strong demand for chips and automobiles, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said in a statement. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE CITY OF SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
Seoul, Aug 18 (EFE/EPA).- South Korea reported 1,805 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Tuesday, including 1,767 local infections, raising the total caseload to 228,657, the country's Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Wednesday.Daily new coronavirus cases rose back to the 1,800s for the first time in three days. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE LINE UP TO TAKE COVID-19 TESTS AT A MAKESHIFT CLINIC STATION IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).