KOSPI 1,666.16 UP 0.31 points (open)
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Dollar opens at 1,164.0 won UP from 1,161.5 won
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By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- The Taliban's warning against South Korea's planned
deployment of troops to Afghanistan amounts to routine rhetoric served up as part

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday
that it will launch its next generation mobile Internet service with its Russian

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean seller of Audi AG, the luxury
division of Volkswagen AG, said Wednesday it expects to sell 6,800 cars next

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- One of 18 financial investors has exercised its right

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan will hold a working-level
meeting next week to look into ways to resume stalled negotiations on a bilateral

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (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. 16 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Group, South Korea's largest business
conglomerate, said Wednesday that it promoted a total of 380 executives at

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's jobless rate rose at the slowest pace
among the world's major economies, a report showed Wednesday.