SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Household spending on food in South Korea rose to an
eight-year high in the first nine months of the year, a sign of their diminished

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's discount store chain Lotte Mart said on
Tuesday that it will open two new stores in the country this week.

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's cosmetics industry is forecast to see
its domestic sales rise 11 percent from a year ago to 8 trillion won (US$6.74

By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Monthly production at an inter-Korean industrial
complex in the North rose more than 10 percent in October from the previous

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SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Russia signed an agreement Tuesday to

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the
world's No. 3 shipyard, said Tuesday that it has clinched a 750 billion won

PARIS, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Demand for nuclear power is set to spike in coming
decades as the world tries to stop global warming and cut fuel costs, and South

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Trade negotiators from South Korea and Japan failed to
narrow differences over the resumption of stalled free trade negotiations during

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's labor productivity in the manufacturing
sector rebounded in the third quarter of this year as the world started to shake

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's STX Construction Co. has won a US$200