SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top lender Kookmin Bank said Thursday it
has raised US$1 billion by selling so-called covered bonds, becoming the first

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Anheuser-Bush InBev NV said Thursday it has agreed to
sell its South Korean beer unit to U.S. private equity fund KKR & Co. for US$1.8

BUSAN, May 7 (Yonhap) -- A local court ordered a donor Thursday to fulfill his
pledge to a university regardless of whether the recipient uses the money as it

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SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state-invested Industrial Bank of Korea

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SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Woori Finance Holdings Co., South Korea's top financial

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SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea launched a new, integrated group of overseas
volunteers Thursday as part of its plan to significantly increase its overseas

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- International award-winning South Korean director Hong
Sang-soo has been selected as a jury member of the upcoming Locarno International

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state-invested Industrial Bank of Korea
(IBK) said Thursday its first-quarter earnings tumbled 85.3 percent from a year

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's production of cars, trucks and buses
dropped 25.9 percent in April from the same month last year, hurt by sluggish

SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The top trade officials from South Korea and the United
States will meet next week to discuss how to gain ratification of a bilateral