KOSDAQ 347.76 DN 1.95 points (close)
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KOSPI 1,025.57 UP 6.76 points (close)
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Dollar ends at 1,552.4 won DN from 1,570.3 won
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SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean companies will try to win US$130 million
worth of export orders at an international food exhibition in Japan, the
government said Tuesday.

SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 0.87 lower late Tuesday
morning, paring steep opening falls thanks to bargain hunting, analysts said.

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States began a joint air
force exercise Tuesday as part of their preparations for a high-profile annual

SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's SK Engineering & Construction Co. said
Tuesday that it has clinched a US$373 million deal to build four skyscrapers in

SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank said Tuesday it provided
US$3 billion in loans to local banks, which have been suffering from a dollar

SEOUL, March 3 (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 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's consumer prices grew at a faster pace in February than in the previous month on increased gasoline and other oil product costs, a government report showed T