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SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's chief nuclear envoy headed to
Washington Friday to coordinate a strategy for countering North Korea's imminent

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak declared his personal assets

SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- Shinsegae Co., South Korea's second-largest retailer,
will resume the sale of U.S. beef early next month after five years of keeping it

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom)
SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed down 0.51 percent in a

SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trading volume of containers plunged in
February from a year earlier, affected by the global economic downturn, a

SEOUL, March 27 (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.

(ATTN: RECASTS lead, para 2; UPDATES with central bank official's remarks in para 5,
11; ADDS more quotes in para 16)
By Kim Soo-yeon

SEOUL, March 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened higher Friday as investors
picked up tech and auto shares, driven by overnight gains in U.S. markets,
analysts said.