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SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed 1.42 percent higher Tuesday

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., South Korea's
leading non-life insurer, said Tuesday its earnings rose 31.4 percent on-year in

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SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed 1.42 percent higher Tuesday
as foreign investors scooped up blue-chip shares, analysts said. The local

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has declared its bid to host the World Cup
finals in 2018 or 2022, joining fierce international competition to stage the

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- They are books with pictures, hardly highbrow or
educational enough to compete with the classics. But with an unusual flair and

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea appears to be preparing for the launch of
an inter-continental missile, a South Korean intelligence source said Tuesday,

By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Senate foreign relations committee will

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