SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Thursday they have indicted two
Seoul residents without detention on charges of spreading false rumors that

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's second-highest defense official and the
commander of American forces here began talks Thursday to iron out differences

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A local government in collaboration with several
major banks created a 240 billion won (US$177 million) loan payment guarantee

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded up 0.43 percent late
Thursday morning as optimism about first-quarter corporate earnings outweighed

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A majority of South Korea's leading businessmen
expect the economy to recover in the first half of 2010 after its first

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- The government will establish a fund worth some 4
trillion won (US$3 billion) to purchase vessels from struggling shipping

BUSAN, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean appeals court on Thursday affirmed a suspended sentence given to a man convicted of raping a transgender woman in a landmark ruling that redefined the leg

SEOUL, April 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.

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Russia's foreign minister arrived in North Korea on Thursday, Pyongyang's state media said, for a two-day trip that may include a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jo

By Byun Duk-kun