SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started higher Monday as foreign
investors picked up tech and financial shares, analysts said.

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ordered an asset management firm and a
bank to pay 6.1 billion won (US$5.25 million) to over 200 investors to compensate

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- The cashable assets of South Korea's listed firms
expanded 13.5 percent in the first nine months of 2009 as they curbed spending

By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the African Union (AU) will hold a
high-level forum here this week to explore ways to strengthen ties on development

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the U.N. Development Program (UNDP)
were to sign pacts Monday on establishing a "policy center" for the aid agency in

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak promised Monday
to more than double Seoul's official development aid (ODA) to Africa over the

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead paras; UPDATES with additional remarks from the
committee chairman)
By Byun Duk-kun

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (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.

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's deputy defense minister said Monday the
number of troops his country sends to Afghanistan will likely be in the "several

By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will provide the anti-viral drug Tamiflu
to North Korean workers at a joint industrial park, where a South Korean man was