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The Lee Myung-bak administration is seeking to further ease tax burdens in a desperate bid to stimulate the sinking economy.

The Lee Myung-bak administration is seeking to further ease tax burdens in a desperate bid to stimulate the sinking economy.

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean scientists on Monday said they have discovered the molecular mechanism for sepsis bacterial infection, commonly called blood poisoning, the cause of countles

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- Hundreds of journalists and producers at four large
television networks will go on a 2-day strike this week to protest President Lee

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will embark on a
three-nation trip this week that will take him to New Zealand, Australia and

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's anti-trust watchdog said Sunday it gave
the greenlight for a subsidiary of retail giant Lotte Group to acquire the

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- Participants in the South Korean financial market
should refrain from being oversensitive to Eastern European banking turmoil

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- Trade between South Korea and Singpore almost doubled
in 2008, three years after the two countries signed a free trade agreement (FTA),

SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- Total earnings by South Korea's credit card companies
declined 36.5 percent in 2008 from a year earlier as business costs rose and