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SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- Creditors of Daewoo International Corp., a South
Korean trading company, said Friday that they will sell a controlling stake in

SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) - South Korean banks' lending rates fell for the second
straight month in December, in line with a decline in rates for corporate and

SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.87 percent lower late
Friday morning, tracking overnight Wall Street losses, analysts said.

SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

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SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- KT Corp., South Korea's top fixed-line operator and

SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- The foreign ministry in Seoul said Friday that
Peruvian authorities have rescued all of the 34 South Korean tourists who were

By Kim Boram
(This is the fourth of five articles on South Korea's expected performance at the
Vancouver Winter Olympics.)

By Lee Chi-dong
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
plans to hold a summit with his Israeli counterpart and meet Bill Gates on Friday