BUSAN, March 11 (Yonhap) -- Kim Hyun-hui, once a North Korean terrorist and now a housewife living in South Korea, held a long-awaited meeting Wednesday with the family of a Japanese woman kidnappe

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's per capita gross domestic product (GDP)
is expected to fall sharply this year due to a sharp economic downturn and a weak

SEOUL, March 11 (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, March 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top 20 business conglomerates want the
won currency to strengthen against the U.S. dollar this year to offset expensive

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Lotte Engineering & Construction Co.
said Wednesday that it has clinched a 112 billion won (US$75.6 million) deal to

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- The government said Wednesday that it is considering
offering new treasury bonds in exchange for less liquid ones to boost demand for

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed Wednesday that it will take "every
necessary measure" to protect its sovereignty, accusing the United States and

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- LG Group, South Korea's third-largest family-run
business conglomerate, said Wednesday it plans to spend a total of 11.3 trillion

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister urged local companies
Wednesday to invest actively as part of an effort to "share the pain" of the

SEOUL, March 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top trade official said Wednesday that
the government will not accept a possible request from the United States to amend