SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea expressed 'regret' over North Korea's
suspension of the last inter-Korean military hotline on Monday, urging Pyongyang

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Thailand's Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya will visit
South Korea later this week for talks with his counterpart on ways to strengthen

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's farm, fisheries and food exports rose
5.5 percent annually in the first two months of this year thanks to a solid gain

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SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- A high-level U.S. envoy expressed regret Monday over

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Local banks provided 3.1 trillion won (US$2 billion)
in loans to smaller companies last month in a bid to help them better cope with

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak received a rare briefing from
his security-related ministers Monday as North Korea continues to escalate

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By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Hundreds of South Koreans planning to visit North

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- Woori Bank, South Korea's third-largest lender, said
Monday it has borrowed US$100 million from a European lender in an effort to

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- A former North Korean spy living in South Korea will
this week meet the family of a Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea in 1978,

SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Monday it has
launched a probe into the nation's major beverage manufacturers on allegations