SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Koreans' use of plastic money including credit
and check cards rose 22.3 percent in 2008 from a year earlier as more people

SUWON, South Korea, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Thursday that they indicted
three American athletes playing in South Korea's professional basketball league for

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government is looking at the newly
published U.S. report on human rights to see if it contains erroneous information

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks extended earlier gains to 1.69
percent late Thursday morning as investors picked up finance and telecom shares,
analysts said.

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- LG Display Co., the world's second-largest maker of
liquid crystal displays (LCD), said Thursday it has released a 27-inch full HD

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean investments in overseas resource
development surged to a record high in 2008 as local companies scrambled to

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trade surplus is expected to reach US$3
billion in February largely due to a sharp drop in imports, a top government

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- The government is pushing to exempt foreign investors
from taxes on their interest income from local bonds to stimulate a capital

By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court accepted a request by a North Korean
family seeking to prevent the South Korean spouse of their deceased father from

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- The government said Thursday it will increase
financial support for public construction projects to encourage private-sector