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Confirmation of police chief nominee delayed due to squatter deaths
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By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office decided Friday to withhold its
Top S. Korean, U.S. diplomats agree to seek early summit
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SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and his
Samsung suffers first quarterly loss, outlook gloomier
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stock price)
Seoul stocks down 1.7 pct in late morning
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.7 percent lower late
Friday morning as investor sentiment was dented by overnight Wall Street falls
U.N. committee to examine human rights of children in N. Korea
GENEVA, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- A United Nations committee is set to question North
Korean officials on Friday about the communist country's policy on protecting the
Korean economy to shrink 2.5 pct this year: JPMorgan Chase
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economy will contract 2.5 percent in
2009 amid the deepening global recession, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday,
Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S. agree to push for early summit
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan had
telephone talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, with the
