SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul jury that included two interpreters on Tuesday
acquitted a 24-year-old Kyrgyz man of raping a South Korean woman.

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SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- The global economy may begin to show feeble
improvement later this year or early next year after the global credit crisis

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SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- KT Corp., South Korea's largest phone and Internet

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SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's deputy chief nuclear envoy said Tuesday
his rare discussions with North Korean officials in Pyongyang were confined to

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- KT Corp., South Korea's largest phone and Internet
service provider, said Tuesday it plans to merge with its mobile operator to

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BUSAN, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean man, the first to be convicted of
spousal rape in the country, was found dead Tuesday in an apparent suicide,
police officials said.

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SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors and human rights officials launched an

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state quarantine body said Tuesday it
returned or destroyed 28,000 shipments and packages of pest-infested

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- One policymaker at the Bank of Korea (BOK) argued that
the BOK needs to pay local banks higher interest on their required reserves at