SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- Defaults by local companies and households on bank
loans inched up in May amid a prolonged economic slump, but the growth of the

By Park Bo-ram
SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Korean firms filing for bankruptcy
declined in May from the previous month as the nation's economic stimulus

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economy is expected to shrink 1.7
percent this year as exports remain weak and fiscal spending decreases down the

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- Megabox Cineplex, one of the nation's largest
multiplex cinema chains, said Sunday it will raise its ticket price starting this

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- SK Shipping Co., a South Korean shipper, said Sunday
that it has won a US$100 million deal to ship coal for a power company.

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- Trade between the divided Koreas has fallen for the
ninth straight month year-on-year, the customs office here said Sunday, as

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- Renault Samsung Motors Co., the South Korean unit of
French automaker Renault SA, said Sunday that it will next month launch its "New

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- POSCO, South Korea's leading steelmaker, is expected
to ease its production cuts in the third quarter of the year as steel demand is

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean civic group said Saturday it plans to file for an injunction with a Japanese court to stop a Japanese prefecture from adopting two controversial history te

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SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- An additional 15 South Koreans were found to have been