by Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- About three out of every 10 listed firms in South Korea

SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rose 0.49 percent late Thursday
morning as steel, machinery and other large caps were lifted by overnight Wall

SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's production of cars, trucks and buses fell
18.2 percent in November from the same month last year as the global economic

(ATTN: Please note the new spelling Mount Kumgang in para 5. The change from
Geumgang to Kumgang is in conformity with North Korean Romanization)

(ATTN: ADDS gov't prediction of November current account surplus at bottom)
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- With fears over a worldwide recession growing, South

SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korean researchers said Thursday they have
succeeded in deciphering the first-ever genome sequence map of a Korean, a step

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korean exports of information technology (IT)
products plunged 32.3 percent on-year in November due to a sharp decline in

SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea named four overseas universities on
Thursday as recipients of this year's government funding scheme to support Korean

SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korean companies' profitability fell sharply in
the third quarter of the year as a weaker won led to heavy foreign exchange