SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea posted a record-high monthly trade surplus in March as imports contracted at a faster pace than exports amid a global economic downturn, a government report

By Nam Kwang-sik

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 2.14 percent higher late Thursday morning as investor sentiment was lifted by overnight gains in U.S. markets, analysts said.

By Lee Joon-seung

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is seeking to become one of the top 10 trading nations in the world this year by expanding the global market share of its products, the government said Thurs

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- GM Daewoo Auto & Technoloy Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Corp., introduced a revamped Tosca mid-size sedan Thursday in a bid to increase sales and sal

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- eBay Inc. signed a deal Thursday to buy a 34.21 percent stake in Gmarket Inc., South Korea's top on-line retailer, for US$413 million, industry sources said.

SEOUL, April 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, April 16 (Yonhap) -- Dongwon Group, a South Korean food and fisheries conglomerate, said Thursday it will seek to increase groupwide sales by 10 percent this year by aggressively expanding i

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports will likely shrink 16 percent this year amid a protracted global economic slowdown, the finance ministry said Thursday.