SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has tightened monitoring of the use of
mobile phones and car GPS receivers by South Koreans in a joint industrial

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korean citizens are entitled to a direct, secret
vote in the March 8th parliamentary elections according to the country's

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean defector who lived in China in hiding
for more than a decade recently smuggled into South Korea and has surrendered

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SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Army has posted a rare collection of photos

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's No. 3 lender Woori Bank said it plans to
tap a government-proposed fund aimed at helping boost lenders' capital base in a

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's production of cars, trucks and buses
declined 6.4 percent last year from a year earlier, as the global economic

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economy is likely to fall into recession
as domestic demand and exports, the nation's twin growth engines, are sharply

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