By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has held nationwide rallies to support the
nomination of its leader Kim Jong-il for a parliamentary seat, its official media

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SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Hynix Semiconductor Inc. announced Sunday it has

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean firms operating at an inter-Korean
industrial complex just north of the heavily armed border saw a 36 percent rise

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's manufacturing industry is losing steam
faster than during a financial crisis more than a decade ago, a private think

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SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Hynix Semiconductor Inc. announced Sunday it has

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- The ruling party is considering introducing a bill that
would sentence felons to life imprisonment without the possibility of

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- The government on Sunday urged local exporters to
strictly follow revised safety rules for children's products bound for the United

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Hynix Semiconductor Inc. announced Sunday it has
developed the world's first 1-gigabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean civic groups are gearing up to send
humanitarian aid to North Korea, despite Seoul's frosty political relations with

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- A liberal opposition lawmaker plans to submit a bill
aimed at making voting a legal obligation and imposing fines on non-voters, his
aides said Sunday.