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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea urged North Korea Friday to drop its plan to

By Sam Kim
DONGHAE HARBOR, South Korea, March 13 (Yonhap) -- Practicing a script out loud
inside the bathtub of his house in the gritty South Korean port city of Incheon,

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 0.47 percent higher late
Friday morning as investor sentiment was lifted by overnight gains in U.S.

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea urged North Korea Friday to stop its move
to fire what it suspects to be a missile, reiterating its firm position that any

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has been included as a member of the
Financial Stability Forum (FSF), the organization said Friday, laying the

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics
Co. will try to achieve market-outperforming sales growth this year despite the

SEOUl, March 13 (Yonhap) -- The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has sold
3.6 million shares of Doosan Heavy Industries Co., the country's leading

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. aviation agency said Friday that it has
received formal notice from North Korea of the communist state's plan to fire

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Friday that the U.S. has recognized
its planned rocket launch as an attempt to send a satellite into orbit, not a

SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- Acupuncture may help prevent acute gastritis caused
by the taking of common drugs like aspirin, South Korean researchers said Friday.