SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed a collective
compensation lawsuit by nearly 2,500 people against a local broadcaster accused

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's terms of trade deteriorated to the
lowest level in 20 years in 2008 on a jump in oil and raw material costs, the

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By Shin Hae-in

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks tumbled 3.04 percent late Tuesday
morning as investors remained jittery over worsening global economic conditions,
analysts said.

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A leading South Korean newspaper apologized Tuesday
for its sister magazine's interview with a man who pretended to be Minerva, the

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak assembled the largest annual
national security meeting Tuesday amid heightening fears of a North Korean

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (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.

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- The government will nearly double its support for
infrastructure projects within the country's special economic zones to fuel

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- In more bad news for South Korea's economy, corporate
capital spending will fall 2.5 percent this year from the same period a year ago

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A record number of working-age South Koreans "simply"
gave up looking for work amid a severe economic slump in January, data showed