(ATTN: UPDATES with Clinton's comments on N.K. leadership, S. Korean minister's
comments)
By Lee Chi-dong and Tony Chang

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign debt fell in 2008 from a year
earlier, the first drop in seven years, as banks used dollars provided by

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- The number of unsold housing units in South Korea rose
to an all-time high last year, affected by a protracted economic slowdown, a

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks dropped 2.81 percent late Friday
morning as foreign investors unloaded shares following sharp overnight falls on

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed
Friday that North Korea's missile threats would harm the six-way disarmament

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean currency plunged against the U.S.
dollar Friday, breaching the 1,500-won mark for the first time in three months,

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- In a rare eulogy, President Lee Myung-bak Friday
praised the late Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan as a true leader who embraced not

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is in full control of
the communist country and its leadership is stable, the Seoul government said

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (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, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Appeals for long-term financing by the South Korean
unit of beleaguered U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. took a more urgent tone