SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- Romanson Co., a South Korean watchmaker that has a plant at an inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea, denied Tuesday an earlier report that it was considering pu

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday urged Pyongyang release a South Korean worker being held at a joint industrial complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, sayi

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- A former presidential aide was taken into custody Tuesday as the prosecution dug deeper into a corruption probe centered on a major financial backer of former President R

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- The government will establish a fund worth up to 4 trillion won (US$3 billion) to purchase vessels from local shipping companies as they struggle with declining demand am

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) -- Eco-friendly farm products accounted for more than 10
percent of all agricultural output last year as local farmers moved to meet

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's quarantine authorities said Tuesday they have found a banned substance in Chinese condensed beef stock that could cause stomach upsets and diarrhea.

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- The government said Tuesday it will extend by sixth months its guarantee on overseas borrowing for local banks to help them secure more liquidity in the face of tight cre

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- Beijing Olympic swimming gold medalist Park Tae-hwan will begin a special training session in the United States next week ahead of the World Championship in July, his age

SEOUL, April 8 (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 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.79 percent lower late
Wednesday morning as investor sentiment was hurt by overnight falls in U.S.
markets, analysts said.