By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has recently made two
consecutive public visits aimed at encouraging fertilizer production, in what

SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.05 percent lower late
Tuesday morning as investors took a breather ahead of an announcement of a U.S.

SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top automaker, said
Tuesday it will show off its HED-6 concept car at an auto fair in Geneva set for
next month.

SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will have difficulty in attaining positive
economic growth this year, the new finance minister said Tuesday, pledging to

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. said

SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started stronger Tuesday as
investors snapped up financial and machinery shares, shrugging off overnight

SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- Foreign ownership of South Korean land grew 6.2
percent in 2008 due to an increasing need for space to build houses and

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- For an outsider, the leader of North Korea is a man
who flirts with nuclear weapons, gags critics and would-be defectors by throwing

By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Yonhap) -- Hundreds of South Korean students will arrive in
the United States in March in the first exchange internship program agreed

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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone was to