SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank on Thursday froze the cap
on low-rate loans it offers to small businesses for the first quarter of next

BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and China have published a new
Chinese-Korean dictionary in the latest project marking the 60th anniversary of

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (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.

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shipbuilders have enjoyed a number of
massive orders over the past two months, but it is still too early to say the

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- Bad debt purchases by Korea Asset Management Corp.
(KAMCO) more than tripled to nearly 10 trillion won (US$8.5 billion) this year as

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trade watchdog said Thursday it will
recommend extending antidumping duties on imports of steel bars from Japan, India

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate, plans to
buy a domestic cable-television operator for 400 billion won (US$338 million),

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean companies' direct financing declined 12.9
percent in November from a month earlier due to decreased issuances of stocks and

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- The average life expectancy of a South Korean stands
at 79.4 years and ranks 20th among the members of the Organization for Economic

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ULSAN, Dec. 24 (Yonhap) -- Workers at Hyundai Motor Co. voted to approve a wage