Yonhap News Summary

The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency
on Monday.

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 0.62 percent lower late
Monday morning as a U.S. plan to tighten bank regulations dented investor
sentiment, analysts said.

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will send a group of officials to Haiti
this week to survey conditions in the earthquake-hit nation for a possible

By Kim Eun-jung
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- Police said Monday they are widening probe into
leakage of the U.S. college entrance exam following a series of scams involving

Netherlands-research reactor

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- Woori Investment & Securities Co., the brokerage unit
of South Korea's Woori Finance Holdings, plans to set up a US$500 million

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- The outside director system at South Korea's banks
faces an overhaul that could beef up director independence and cut cozy ties with

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- Artists made less income from their creative works
last year than in 2006, and three out of 10 couldn't make any money at all, a

research reactor-development

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (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.